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  • Updated: 8 Oct 2008
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News 04/13/07

« H E News from the HIT front :: email
posted 04/12/2007
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From Anonymous: "Re: MDTablet. Are any HIStalkers familiar with this company?"

From EyeFartMisys: "Re: Misys. Vern is supposed to have a town hall meeting today, allegedly to discuss the very poor results of the January employee feedback survey. Hopefully someone will e-mail you the survey and what happened at the meeting."

From Nasty Parts: "Re: Integreat EMR. Rumor has it that Integreat has been purchased by Med3000. Word is that Med3000 is tired of licensing Allscripts and Misys software and is going to develop their own products. They claim to be a $100M company? If so, they are truly flying under the radar. Good for them. Perhaps Pat Hamsom would be a good interview subject." I shall dispatch Inga to delve further since this is her area of expertise.

A vendor VP e-mailed me looking for business contacts. His company is interested in locating an affordable back-end solution that offers GL, AP, MM, fixed assets, and human resources targeted at community hospitals, especially a Web-based one. Contact him if your company is interested or know one that might be.

Aldo Zini, formerly of Automated Healthcare (later McKesson) and now CEO of healthcare robotics company Aethon, gets a distinguished alumni award from Pitt's industrial engineering department.

Think of it as veterinary biosurveillance. Banfield, The Pet Hospital, is using its EMR to help FDA collect information about pets affected by contaminated food. One of their locations was the subject of my editorial awhile back called "My teeth and my dog have EMRs, but the rest of me's on paper."

A training PowerPoint with real radiology images, medical histories, and Social Security numbers is accidentally opened up to the Internet on a UPMC radiology department server. To add to that embarrassment, UPMC's security VP said it had been discovered and ordered taken down two years before.






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1. Anonymous left...
04/12/2007 10:28 pm

MED3000 is not a $100M company. It wants to be but it's not there yet. Given some of their recent hires, the InteGreat (again with the capitalization in the middle of the word) acquisition seems to fit.


2. Micth left...
04/17/2007 5:16 pm

Sass- as a side note, I am new to this blog but have passed the link to all my colleagues. I wanted to respond to the question regarding on-demand/SaaS vs. ASP. The answer is they are very similar. An ASP model as most know takes away some of the expense/cost of hardware and software upgrades for EMRs/PMIS. Some vendors have pretty solid ASP offerings but the on-demand model takes it to another step. It really is Health or Web 2.0 kind of stuff.

In athenahealth's case, all of their docs, I believe around 10000+, are centrally hosted on one server housed with athenahealth (which to my knowledge is very different than eCW or other well established ASP offerings). They have created a kind of network or hub where docs/practices can share in intelligence, leverage their payer knowledge base, various best practices etc. It’s leveraging the Web in a way that isn’t rocket science just common sense. I would imagine given the scale of athenahealth's network and its growth that is how they can and will build out their service offering via an on-demand approach. Granted, I am only basing this on research I have done. But looking at other sectors it seems to be working in a similar fashion. Also, this automatically begins to address interoperability issues as folks are all on one system from the start. But, just my two cents.