The Future of Healthcare IT?

Following up on my previous post, a recent report from the Committee on Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in Health Care Informatics suggests:

Today's clinical IT systems “provide little support for the cognitive tasks of clinicians or the workflow of the people who must actually use the system(s).” ... The “overarching, grand research challenge” of the computer science research community is developing “patient-centered cognitive support.” Computer systems need to build virtual models of a patient’s status, models that “depict and simulate a theory about interactions going on in the patient” similar to those models going on in the head of a physician working unaided by a computer.

Read the whole report online or purchase a copy of the 120 page book.