From the blog...
Watch the video release here.....if you have followed EMR/EHR companies over the years we all know that Misys has grown by purchasing other companies and merging technologies...they both talk about connecting with Google and the Microsoft Health Vault...Misys customers will have a choice with new Allscripts items available...question is how long will both be able to function before consolidation of technologies takes place...big merger...but Misys has been here many times before...more market share for the fragmented healthcare system...more to the cloud and to the web...BD
The complex deal under which Misys Healthcare is acquiring 54% of Allscripts, which Allscripts executives will run, is all about Software as a Service, or Saas. With SaaS, the software you use is hosted on a remote server, and you access it through a Web browser, with your data saved remotely as well.
The combined companies will target doctors’ offices with a SaaS product and starts with one-third of the U.S. market. SaaS is a new acronym for what was called the ASP market a decade ago.
Doctors' decisions control 80% of the cost of health care. Hospitals have started to fund the purchase of technology for physicians. Hospital boards are finding that if physicians operate electronically, hospitals can be more efficient.
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Barbara,
I believe you are correct in what you say about the relationship between this merger and the concept of SaaS--Software as a Service. And if you are correct, this validates what all the other SaaS EMR vendors have been saying all along.
And that message is "Yes, you can keep a server up and running and backed up for quick restoration, but no, you can't do it better than we can, and maybe not as well."
Now combine this trouble-free EMR delivery system with one of your beautiful tablet computers, and wow, you have a walk-about medical information delivery system in your hands.
That's like computer Heaven!
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Robert,
You will hear all sorts of buzzwords - SaaS, connecting healthcare, etc. The issue with both of these companies over the past couple of years has been executing the strategy. Just because you can talk the talk does not make you walk the walk. Here is the simple math on this one - 10 different PM solutions currently being supported and 5 different EMRs (Touchworks, HealthMatics,Misys EMR, Amicore and iMedica). I'm not saying management can't do it, but they certainly have their hands full dealing with integration issues (between the companies, FUD in the market about the combined entitry, and executing a new SaaS strategy).