This industry lags in IT adoption but a healthy dose of change is being administered.

NOWADAYS, healthcare issues seem to be dominating the news. You read about the United States declaring a state of emergency due to the increasing number of Americans dying from H1N1 while there are reports of Malaysia and other countries also struggling to contain the pandemic.

Elsewhere and at other times, there are all sorts of other maladies cropping up — everything from AIDS to super throat infections to dengue fever to an old enemy even, tuberculosis.

The question of information technology in healthcare seems rather trivial to consider at this point. After all, hundreds of new diagnostic and testing machines have been developed in the last 20 years. It would seem that contemporary hospitals and clinics are as good as they can be.

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