Issues
- Health care in general lags behind other sectors in the use of technology, even for electronic claims processing, much less electronic medical records.
- Health Care providers ambivalent over value, accuracy and security of electronic applications in general; Internet in particular.
- Health care industry in disarray: managed care, rising costs, mergers, acquisitions and closures, HIPAA.
- Lack of resources for Web development.
- Managing the learning curve about architecture: tools, security, networks, communications and interfaces, and performance.
- Design challenges of porting user functionality to the Web-based platform.