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Article: The times are A-changin': three recent conferences on behavioral health IT highlight the technologic challenges ahead for the field.(information technology)(Conference notes)
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- Behavioral Healthcare
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Here's a short quiz for the New Year. Compare the following terms: vaporware, word processors, DOS, GIGO, Internet, Fortran, Centromine with paradigm shifts, RHIOs (regional health information organizations), technology-driven transformation, resistance to change, outcomes, recent initiatives, incentivize, neu-rotechnology, and interoperability. If you guessed "old terms and new terms you hear at IT conferences," you are correct. These concepts and more were bandied about at two IT conferences in Pittsburgh this past November: the Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics (IBHI) and the 2005 OPEN MINDS Information Technology Institute.
These meetings came on ...