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Date:10/8/2009

uld arise through processes that parallel those in the personal computer and Internet revolutions. He highlighted the catalytic role that government played in defining common protocols for the Internet which enabled the Internet to be created from open source and proprietary software. He also called out the critical role of consumer applications in driving growth of the PC and the Internet, throwing into greater relief the requirements for success of a "Health Internet."

Isaac Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor at Harvard Medical School elaborates: "The model has proven successful for personally controlled health record platforms such as the Indivo system developed at Children's Hospital Boston, Microsoft's HealthVault, and the GoogleHealth system. These consumer-driven platforms have attracted development of an ecosystem of third party applications that add value. Substitutability of healthcare applications gives doctors and patients choice in what best fits their needs."

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, strongly encouraged promotion of disruptive innovation in health information technology. He spoke about the need to move from current-stage complex monolithic health information systems toward platforms that distribute innovation and that engage the consumer. He emphasized that such disruption is a normal part of product life cycles across many industries and warned against policies that would stifle it.

Harvard Business School's Professor Regina Herzlinger, author of Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem -- and the Consumer-Driven Cure, argued that the success of health reform is entirely predicated on giving the consumer a central role in managing health care finance and also the health information management tools to promote information trans
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