IDG Contributor Network: Why we need an overall vision for health IT

Healthcare is a vast, intensely complex ecosystem. Perhaps it is one of the most complex arenas of endeavor of any. Not surprisingly, the business sectors that create tools needed for this ecosystem are also extraordinarily varied – a quick trip to one of the many health IT and digital health conferences will attest to the overwhelming variety of solutions being pursued.Is there any way of pulling all this together into a coherent direction? An overall health IT mission statement? Clearly,