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THE MILBA NK QUA RTERLY A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY Why National eHealth Programs Need Dead Philosophers: Wittgensteinian Reflections on Policymakers’ Reluctance to Learn from History T RI SH A G R E E N HA L G H, JILL RUSS ELL , RICHARD E. ASHCROFT, and WAYNE PARSONS Queen Mary University of London Context: Policymakers seeking to introduce expensive national eHealth pro- grams would be advised to study lessons from elsewhere. But these lessons are unclear, partly be