I was fortunate to reconnect with Chris Nohrden, of IBM and Joe Grundy, of ERIC, who are staffing the Center for eHealth Information Exchange and Adoption, part of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
With the backing of the collaborative and the physicians represented, The Center has the potential to continue to shape HIT efforts in the direction of patient centered care, with the assistance of members who have successfully implemented HIT systems. I am currently participating with the work of the Center with that goal in mind. Based on the innovation I have been seeing, I think this is a realistic expectation!