Acquisition fever has set in and they’re dropping like flies, independent HIE vendors that is. Earlier today, Siemens announced its intent to acquire enterprise HIE vendor MobileMD. So in little over a year we have seen IBM snag Initiate, Axolotl fall into the hands of Ingenix/United Health Group (Ingenix is now known as OptumInsight), Medicity [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AllScripts’
Siemens Jumps into HIE Waters
Posted in Acquisition, Analytics, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged 4medica, AllScripts, Axolotl, Care Evolution, Certified Data systems, dbMotion, HealthUnity, IBM, ICA, ICW, InterSystems, Kryptiq, Medicity, MobileMD, Oracle, Orion Health, Siemens, Wellogic on November 4, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Orion Strengthens Portfolio & MSFT Gains HIE Partner
Posted in ACO, Acquisition, EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged AllScripts, Amalga HIS, Amalga UIS, Axolotl Care Evolution, dbMotion, Orion Health, Thomson Reuters on October 19, 2011 | 21 Comments »
On Monday, New Zealand based Orion Health announced that it would acquire the mothballed Health Information Services (HIS) assets of Microsoft, Amalga HIS. In the same announcement, Orion and Microsoft also announced a partnership for Microsoft’s healthcare analytics solution Amalga UIS. Microsoft, during its HIT buying binge days a few years back had picked up [...]
Dipping Into the Waters of Mobile Health
Posted in mHealth, tagged AllScripts, Android, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, Epic, ePocrates, Greenway, iPad, iPhone, McKesson, Meditech, Medscape, NextGen on August 31, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Introductory Remarks: Chilmark Research is pleased to welcome a new addition to our staff, Cora Sharma. Cora will be leading our research efforts in the mobile health app market (mHealth) and below is her first post on the subject. Cora has a great background having received a BSc in Computer Science, worked in the software [...]
Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, tagged AllScripts, athenahealth, Centricity Advance, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Epic, Greenway, NextGen, Practicefusion, Sage on June 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, GE announced the release of Centricity Advance, their solution for the ambulatory market. Centricity Advance is basically a build-out/rebranding of MedPlexus an SaaS EHR solution vendor that GE acquired in March 2010. GE now joins others (see below) in the EHR market who are striving to provide a complete acute to ambulatory EHR portfolio. [...]
AllScripts+Eclipsys, Who Loses?
Posted in Analytics, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, tagged acquisition, AllScripts, ARRA, dbMotion, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Medicity, NextGen on June 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today, leading ambulatory EHR vendor AllScripts announced that it will merge (it’s really acquire) with one of the larger acute care EHR vendors, Eclipsys creating one of the largest EHR vendors in the market with some 180,000 physicians using their solutions. This acquisition is being driven not by ARRA and all the taxpayer dollars flowing [...]
Apple Targets Healthcare Enterprise
Posted in PHR, tagged AllScripts, Apple, case studies, ePocrates, iPhone on March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
While the Apple iPhone was first targeted at the general consumer, Apple has been taking the necessary steps to bring this device into the enterprise, directly competing with RIM’s Blackberry. Unseating the Blackberry in many sectors, such as finance, may be near impossible but healthcare is another story. Within healthcare, Palm, with its Treo was [...]
