Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
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As the push for broader adoption of electronic health records (EHR) is underway, several issues have come up as deterrents to adoption. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
(JAMIA) published a study in its current issue that predicted less than half of small physician practices will adopt EHR by the government target date of 2014 at the current rate of adoption. Barriers cited in new studies, like training and privacy issues, are tied closely to larger concerns like the cost of implementation and setting standards. But the full promise of EHR will not be realized unless these issues are considered in the implementation.
