HIStalk Quotes
News 05/16/06
From Confidential Tip: "Gone from Emergisoft this week: Jason Sears, Board Member; Ash Husenlaub, CEO; Jay Flynn. President; Ann Crossman, CFO; Jose Lugo, Marketing Director; Hal Kopple, Sales Mgr. Call their 1-800 number and ask customer service. This proves they are transferring the company and it is an asset sale. They have told their key accounts." I tried dialing these folks on the Emergisoft directory by name and they weren't found, so I believe all the above is true. Other comments I've heard: Misys can leverage the Emergisoft ED offering for some of their Sunquest customers, Emergisoft's 4.0 release is good, and the customer base is solid. Misys may or may not announce publicly, but it sure sounds like a done deal. Thanks to all for the tips.
From Pablo: "MEDITECH is now recruiting progammers that speak Spanish for a Spanish version of their software. Interesting market segment for them that I don't know much about. My guess is the ones they get won't be very good as they are not willing to pay for talent." Here's a link to their job listing.
McKesson gets a $146 million disease management contract for the state of Illinois, with critics complaining that McKesson's lobbyist is a big fundraiser for the governor. "But the problem is the perception issue. The governor hasn't learned your friends can't just keep getting rich by shepherding state contracts. It makes me question the governor's judgment when he continually gets hit on these things, is under federal investigation and doesn't change anything."
Why should you place your e-mail address in the spam-proof Mailing List box to your right? Because you'll get immediate notification when I write something new here. Even I can't see who's signed up, so you are anonymous.
A Pennsylvania stay-at-home mom's spare bedroom programming business results in eHand-Offs, software that automates and documents the worfklow associated with information handoffs in hospitals.
Merge Healthcare President, CEO, and Director Richard Linden resigns, replaced in the interim by founder and former CEO Bill Mortimore as the CEO search begins. They've convinced Scott Veech to continue in his role as CFO for a limited time. Merge says it will complete its internal accounting investigation in the next few weeks. They've not heard back yet on their appeal to keep their stock's NASDAQ listing.
This is the longest contract I've ever seen. Siemens gets a 36-year technology deal with a London hospital worth $566 million.
Tommy Thompson says the healthcare system will collapse by 2013, but then again he's now a consultant and lawyer who will benefit from fear more than he did as HHS secretary.
BT's CEO defends Connecting for Health chief Richard Granger and the project itself. "Richard Granger is doing a good job. He’s one of our most difficult, demanding and therefore capable customers ... When you’re in a transformation, it’s easy to say, ‘I can see flaws here, here and here.’ That’s what transformation is all about. My advice is let it run ... We are very happy with the progress. Some of our colleagues have told their shareholders that they have difficulties. You have not heard us say that so far, and I don’t think you will. We are in good shape.”
A hot trend for government IT contractors: targeting healthcare. Named: Northrop Grumman, Perot Systems, and Accenture, all of which are building up their healthcare IT businesses.
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Nothing new about government IT contractors targeting healthcare. A number
of systems were sold by McDonnell Douglas in the 70's and 80's, and I
believe some other big names were involved (Northrop, Lockheed)
I'm not that familiar with healthcare needs of Spanish speaking countries
or if you can even group it together under one software package, if that's
what they are doing. We are talking about many different countries. Is
healthcare in England and the US the same? (it's completely different).
They are both English speaking countries. But with reference to Pablo's
comments on talent, etc., the job posting reads "entry-level programmers"
so one might imagine they have senior level programmers involved already.
You would think that a company that has a quarter of the hospitals in the
US might have an idea of what they are doing. Much of this could be
language translation. But it's an interesting development, I wonder what
the market is like.
