title: The alternative route: hanging out the unmentionables for better decision making in health information technology.
abstract: Expert panels and policy analysts have often ignored potential contributions to health information technology (IT) from the Internet and Web-based applications. Perhaps they are among the "unmentionables" of health IT. Ignoring those unmentionables and relying on established industry experts has left us with a standards process that is complex and burdened by diverse goals, easy for entrenched interests to dominate, and reluctant to deal with potentially disruptive technologies. We need a health IT planning process that is more dynamic in its technological forecasting and inclusive of IT experts from outside the industry.
authors: American Academy of Family Physicians, USA. kibbedavid@mac.com
authors: David C
authors: DC
authors: Kibbe
authors: Curtis P
authors: CP
authors: McLaughlin
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D010934:Planning Techniques; D018581:Technology Transfer; D014481:United States