Although most of our PCHIT research has focused on how clinicians and patients interact around care needs and technology, we spend some time talking with the people, companies and organizations that can play a PCHIT facilitation role in one way or another. Among these meetings, I’ve had a couple of conversations with and about HIT vendors about a hypothesis about EHR evolution, which goes something like this:

• Over the next few years, the functionality around different EHR products will converge in terms of the core clinical data management capabilities.
• Therefore, differentiation among EHR vendors will be on the basis of how well they create better and more seamless care management infrastructures for clinician-patient interaction and consumer engagement.

If that’s the case, it certainly would have important implications for the evolution of PCHIT applications.

Do others share this view?

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