Comments on: “Waiting for Godot” or why Apple’s rumoured tablet won’t transform health care today http://blog.hansoh.com/2010/01/26/waiting-for-godot-or-why-apples-rumoured-tablet-wont-transform-health-care-today/ eHealth, innovation, and health care Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hans http://blog.hansoh.com/2010/01/26/waiting-for-godot-or-why-apples-rumoured-tablet-wont-transform-health-care-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2238 Hans Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:18:32 +0000 http://blog.hansoh.com/2010/01/26/waiting-for-godot-or-why-apples-rumoured-tablet-wont-transform-health-care-today/#comment-2238 Thanks for the comment - I totally agree that people subscribe to "technological determinism". Technology is just a tool - it's up to people to use the tool properly. Thanks for the comment – I totally agree that people subscribe to “technological determinism”. Technology is just a tool – it’s up to people to use the tool properly.

]]> By: MedInformaticsMD http://blog.hansoh.com/2010/01/26/waiting-for-godot-or-why-apples-rumoured-tablet-wont-transform-health-care-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 MedInformaticsMD Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:50:53 +0000 http://blog.hansoh.com/2010/01/26/waiting-for-godot-or-why-apples-rumoured-tablet-wont-transform-health-care-today/#comment-2237 I am quite tied of hearing about how IT will "transform, revolutionize, grandiose verb du jour" healthcare. This is marketing hype and irrational exuberance at best, and downright lying at worst. I would welcome a return to sobriety about the capabilities of computers. See this link for a dose of reality: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/failurecases/?loc=cases&sloc=2009 The bellicose grandiosity about "revolutions" must stop. I am quite tied of hearing about how IT will “transform, revolutionize, grandiose verb du jour” healthcare. This is marketing hype and irrational exuberance at best, and downright lying at worst.

I would welcome a return to sobriety about the capabilities of computers. See this link for a dose of reality: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/failurecases/?loc=cases&sloc=2009

The bellicose grandiosity about “revolutions” must stop.

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