With all the great things happening in the health IT market in 2010, it’s easy to forget that the economy continued to be a strain on providers. Add the down economy to regulatory requirements related to ICD-10 and EMRs, and those who provide care will continue to be burdened by financial worries in 2011. Consider [...]
January 2011
2010 was a big year for mergers and acquisitions, especially among the big hitters who were positioning themselves to benefit from stimulus money. Allscripts acquiring Eclipsys, Aetna buying Medicity, MedQuist high-bidding for Spheris, Francisco Partners purchasing QuadraMed and Quantros, and Ingenix acquiring Axolotl (and A-Life, PICIS, and EHR) all made the news. Some acquisitions were [...]
2010 was the year that health care IT hit the big time. It started in 2009 with the ARRA stimulus package that promised as much as $17 billion to providers who put electronic medical records to meaningful use. And those two words—”meaningful use“—were the hottest words in health IT. It seemed everyone had an angle [...]
The year 2010 will go down in history as the year the United States passed health reform. It wasn’t as sweeping as many had hoped. And it went way too far for some people. But the fact of the matter is this: the country saw that the number of uninsured was unacceptable, and they passed [...]
