I have been meaning to write about this for a while.

Glen Tullman and I have pretty different opinions about Health IT. Glen is the CEO of Allscripts, which is the largest proprietary EHR vendor in the country. When ONC called for testimony for the definition of meaningful use, Glen and I sat on the same panel. I testified after him, and I painted a much different picture of the state of Health IT than he did. The summary of his testimony: "The future of EHRs is already here, we are doing meaningful use today". The summary of my testimony: "There is a market failure in Health IT, no other industry needed to be paid to computerize". He holds his own software company out as an example of the "right way" where as I generally hold VA VistA, which was developed in a Open Source collaborative fashion as the way forward.

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