Healthcare IT Update

Physician EMR Market Still Wide-Open

EMR brand recognition among physicians is low. The health system EMR market is fairly settled, with big IT companies dominating the post-ARRA market just as they did in the days before the stimulus. But the in physician EMR market is more like the Wild West, with multiple companies looking to stake a claim. There’s no clear favorite among the EMR vendors vying to sell systems to physicians and score their share of all that ARRA money, says a new report from Kalorama Information. Sure, there are big tech players in the physician market, such as IBM, 3M, Dell and Wal-Mart, and companies like Allscripts, Epic, eClinicalworks, athenahealth and NextGen are current leaders. But no one company has even one-fifth of the market.

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iPad Offers Pros and Cons for EHR Adoption

Image copyright Apple We noted last week that there’s a lot of hype swirling around Apple’s release of the iPad — an electronic tablet device that many in the health care technology field see as a revolutionary new tool that will speed the adoption of electronic health records. But other writers and experts are not so sure, and there will certainly be a period of testing and caution before the health care industry embraces new EHR tools of which the iPad is just one example. Read on to find out whether the iPad will actually live up to the hype or just be another fancy toy that will give health care workers and patients a bigger screen to play Tetris on. Here are some key specs of…

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