While car sales are languishing, another industry – one with potentially explosive growth – the nascent Electronic Medical Records industry has adopted the same approach as car dealers. G.E. just announced a 0% financing scheme on June 15. IBM has a very similar plan.
What is this market about and why the aggressive financing pitch?
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On April 3, 2009, dozens of experts from leading healthcare institutions and technology companies assembled to watch a war game unfold on The Battle for Healthcare Information. Some of the brightest business students from Columbia, MIT, Kellogg, and Wharton represented healthcare giants, Microsoft, McKesson and Kaiser Permanente. Their purpose: To stress test technology’s future role [...] ...
When I opened my outer screen door this morning to pick up the newspapers, it sailed right over them. Only seven or eight years ago – even in a recessionary climate – the papers would have been too thick with advertising pages to have fit underneath.
What does this have to do with electronic medical records, [...] ...
In his February 24th address before Congress, President Obama threw down the gauntlet. “Our recovery plan will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, bring down costs, ensure privacy and save lives…So let there be no doubt: health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait and it will not [...] ...
I’d like to meet Harry Markopolos. Not because The Boston Globe called him a whistleblower for attempting to alert authorities of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme as far back as 2000 (He’s not a whistleblower, by the way. A whistleblower is someone who often risks his job and career by disclosing company wrongdoing while working inside [...] ...