Health IT addendum

As if on cue, today's Wall Street Journal has a page-one story about a young whistleblower who unmasked flubs and conflicts of interest in Kaiser Permanente's efforts to computerize its medical records. Forget about the scandalous elements of the story. It reveals the difficulties even one of the best health care systems in the country is having in moving to computerized medical records. What will it take to get the physicians that Porter wants to reorganize (see the below post) to move in this direction? And if it cost Kaiser $1.5 billion for a faltering program, what will it cost them?