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Health IT Strategic Framework

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IX. Considerations and Barriers

  • Lack of a common health enterprise architecture for rural and medically underserved communities;

  • Lack of communication and computing infrastructure;

  • Incomplete standards to support data exchange;

  • Lack of centralized funding/disparate funding streams across federal agencies;

  • Lack of incentives for the private sector and managed care organizations to provide solutions; and

  • Lack of national, state and local venues for knowledge transfer and sharing of lessons learned.

Last revised: November 10, 2004

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