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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/0205covisint.html

If the auto industry, with more technical sophistication couldn’t work past the competitive issues, especially where real stockholder monitored dollars are involved, why would health care be able to set aside competition and utilize the tool? This is a rebranded private RHIO with no sustainable business model. As you state, a physician office is hard pressed to afford this, so a hospital is to pay for it? Their prospects are not so great in a challenged economy and they have their own plant, property and equipment investments to make. Sure, a payer could afford to do this, but this would cut into their profits at what benefit in a measurable period of time.