Healthcare IT Tipping Point?

Health Management Technology, March, 2005 by Robert Seliger

I started my career in healthcare IT not long after reading "Siddhartha," "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Slaughterhouse-Five," and since then I cannot remember a time when more has been happening to galvanize our industry than is happening today. While healthcare IT has not yet tipped, and a tipping point could still be years away, something different, new and exciting is clearly happening. I do not know if Mr. Gladwell would classify what is happening as an epidemic yet, but having studied so many other changes in technology, society and business, I believe he would agree that we might be on to something.

Robert Seliger is the president and CEO of Sentillion Inc., Andover, Mass. Contact him at robert.seliger@sentillion.com.