A Global Learning Laboratory

Healthcare is an increasingly global affair. There's nothing new or controversial about that, but I've compiled a string of data points that buttresses the idea. As globalization spreads, U.S. providers will have a significant role to play in expanding the use of healthcare information technology abroad and will have much to learn from their foreign peers.
Within the past two months, I've attended three industry conferences—the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' CIO Fall Forum in San Antonio, the Radiological Society of North America's annual extravaganza in Chicago and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's annual meeting last week in Orlando. All had substantial international reach...