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February 2, 2012 10:06 pm GMT
I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other industry has done -- apply information technology to streamline processes. "Established technology is being given a federally funded new lease on life," athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said. "Traditional health software now is on Medicare, being kept alive like grandma." Bush dubs this program as the "cash for clunkers" program for health IT leaving no doubt what his opinion is regarding the legacy vendors' solutions.
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I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other industry has done -- apply information technology to streamline processes. "Established technology is being given a federally funded new lease on life," athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said. "Traditional health software now is on Medicare, being kept alive like grandma." Bush dubs this program as the "cash for clunkers" program for health IT leaving no doubt what his opinion is regarding the legacy vendors' solutions.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MUZBgW21QPk/
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