Marshfield Clinic Press Release - American Medical Informatics ...

especially over the next few years as a national imperative to improve healthcare delivery and reduce health care costs.“Any endeavor of this scale will produce unintended and unanticipatedconsequences,” Starren said. “By starting to think about and discuss thosepossible consequences now, we can minimize their negative impact.”Carl Christensen, Marshfield Clinic chief technology officer, said that “it hastaken Marshfield Clinic 40 years to develop software that now supports a trulychartless electronic workflow. Other organizations are now trying to cover thesame distance in less than one tenth of the time. That will present significantchallenges.”Speaking to the conference, Blumenthal called for the “creation of a learningcommunity” within HIT.“We support Dr. Blumenthal’s call for a learning community,” said Michael Murphy,director of Marketing and Product Development, CattailsMD Software. “CattailsSoftware was a sponsor of this conference because we believe that no single vendor hasall the answers. By sharing knowledge, we can make all EHR systems better.”“Security Health Plan is constantly looking for ways to improve the health of ourshareholders,” said Steve Youso, Security Health Plan chief executive officer.“Helping improve EHR software quality is one way to do that.”Unintended consequences occurring in previous HIT implementations werediscussed as well as lessons from other industries; possible unintendedconsequences of current HIT policies; and approaches to minimizing negativeunintended consequences.For more information or for a report from the conference, contact AMIA atwww.amia.orgAbout AMIA