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Seven Durable Ideas

Department of Information Systems, Partners Healthcare, Boston, MA.

^_* Correspondence: John Glaser, PhD, Partners Healthcare, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02199 (Email: jglaser{at}partners.org).

Received for publication: 11/26/07; accepted for publication: 02/13/08.

Partners Healthcare, and its affiliated hospitals, have a long track record of accomplishments in clinical information systems implementations and research. Seven ideas have shaped the information systems strategies and tactics at Partners; centrality of processes, organizational partnerships, progressive incrementalism, agility, architecture, embedded research, and engage the field. This article reviews the ideas and discusses the rationale and steps taken to put the ideas into practice.