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The Diagnostic Information
System (sm)
Today’s Situation
•The nation’s most pressing problems in healthcare cost
and quality require more
than just incremental innovations.
•Disruptive simplification technology innovations,
including the DIS clinical
standard format, technical transmission IT standards, HIT systems certification,and a secure HIT
infrastructure will all work
over time to support a value-based competitive healthcare marketplace. (www.hhs.gov/valuedriven)
•Only such a market, by properly aligning stakeholder incentives, capital sources and the interests of HIT buyers and
vendors can ensure the
development and sustained improvement of a robust national HIT infrastructure.