When this and other deals are consummated, the new organizations will be large enough to gain the attention of the Fortune 100. This is how healthcare IT will cease to be so fragmented.
- Scott Holmes, Holmes Group
If well executed, the merger should provide a very strong and capable competitor in the integrated system marketplace. Others will certainly follow suit, if they can, but most of the large software companies are too invested in legacy technologies and bureaucracy to be able to deploy a truly integrated cost-effective solution.
- Michael, EHR/EPM Consultant, former CIO
Sector is far too fragmented and standards development work is progressing too slowly to meed the market's needs. Consolidation is one way to reduce market confusion and speed the "wiring" of US medicine.
- Kim D. Slocum, President--KDS Consulting, LLC
The EMR world is requiring more intercommuniciation, so companies that can bridge the hospital, clinic, urgent care, nursing home span will have the most utility.
- Chester Robson, Adventist Health Partners
In three years we will have 3 companies with 90% of the market.
- Edward Feinberg MD MPH Boston Medical Center / Boston University School of Medicine
With each vendor/application on the market, there is no standardization of the EMR. This poses a safety threat to the paitent who sees more than 1 provider. There is no access by one provider to the other. It is unfortunate that the civilian market cannot be like the VA system and use 1 program in all facilites. I do not see that happening quickly, but hope that it would for the safety and continuity of care by all providers for the public.
- Barbara Lyons The Johns Hopkins Hospital
The large vendors can easily obtain clients through an aquisition or merger, smaller vendors realize they can not compete with HIT certification.
- Joanne Henry Shore Memorial Hospital
As compensation shrinks and demands increase, HIT vendors will seek to broaden their reach and capture more of a consolidated market. Cerner approached this back in the 1990's with "Housecall". If the intent is to reach a more consolidated EHR, you have to try to capture information from pre / post hospital care. A consolidated system offering is one approach (global EHR's like Google Health and MS Healthvault are another). If Allscripts / Eclipsys executes this right, there could be siginificant patient care benefits for organizations that utilize this combined solution, but it depends upon physician adoption as well.
- Chuck Demaree, VP/CTO, Access
160 total votes. 14 "Isolated" 146 "More consolidation"
