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 [...]
Stimulus package
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 [...]
