Monday, March 2, 2009

What’s Behind Healthcare IT’s Rise

From DICE, March 2, 2009...

I have to admit that reading about the digitization of medical records doesn’t exactly get my pulse racing, but perhaps we should all be paying a bit more attention now that $19 billion or so of government money is targeted for the EHR (electronic health records) effort. IT Career Planet has checked in with Christine Chang, healthcare technologies analyst at Datamonitor, and has found out quite a few interesting facts.

"EHR is the main focus of the Obama stimulus for healthcare IT, but its just the tip of a much bigger surge of systems integration.

There are currently hundreds of companies vying for market share, some are start-ups; others are more established players in the healthcare IT market."

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