BMJ  2004;328 (15 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7449.0-f

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Can IT lead to radical redesign of health care?

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Most of the large sectors of the economy have seen radical reinvention in the past 25 years. Consider air transport: low cost airlines are making bigger profits than traditional airlines. Consider telecommunications: distance is dead, or at least dying, and everybody (apart from me) has a mobile phone. Even higher education has changed, with a threefold increase in young people going to university. Health, in contrast and despite seeming to be in a state of permanent revolution, has not changed so fundamentally. But the perfusion of high quality information technology (IT) into the heart of health care should lead to radical redesign.

One of the characteristics of being in the old world (or paradigm) is that it's almost impossible to imagine the new one. Nevertheless, it's fun to try—and this theme issue on electronic communication and health care provides clues.

The first development is that patients have access to the . . . [Full text of this article]

Richard Smith, editor

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