For anyone who isn’t aware, and there must be at least one or two of you out there, healthcare IT has a tendency to look the way IT generally did about 30 years ago. There’s lots of reasons for that — a desire to invest in patient services rather than infrastructure, concerns about security and privacy, and a general conservatism in the space. No matter what the causes, it’s clear that healthcare’s historical reluctance to move the needle on technology change has had an impact on patient outcomes.