(this old post got lost in the import from blogspot)Just finished the follow-up article by Nicholas Carr, The End of Corporate Computing. I like the concept – IT as a utility, just like electricity at the turn of the 20th century. His earlier article, IT Doesn’t Matter sets the stage for what should be a monumental change in the way we compute.
Why do some companies spend millions on Microsoft products, replicated at the PC level? Not a good use of capital. It also hinders the move to an EHR. Carr says that virtualization, grid computing and web services will replace the PC and all that redundancy.
What does this have to do with ICD-9-CM? It might mean that companies wouldn’t have to fret over the MS-DRG grouper transition or worry about distributing copies of an encoder to a user’s PC. Think about the next time you plug your PC into an outlet. It’s only a utility.
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