Harvard Business Review (HBR)
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The Upsides Of Betting On Early-Stage IT Startups
When Aetna chief information security officer Jim Routh became the first customer, literally, to buy email authentication software from a startup, that move was part of what he described as “a complete shift in thinking about purchasing products.”...
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Without Real Interoperability, Are Providers Paying Too Much for EHRs?
Would you pay top dollar for anything—a car, phone, television, whatever—that promises truly transformational technology at some unspecified future date? I doubt you would. We generally buy products for what they offer now, not what the company says they will eventually do (vaporware, as IT calls it). And yet, so many hospitals pay multi-billions of dollars for healthcare IT systems that promise to integrate patient care … eventually. Why? Some argue the primary reason is a false market that was created by federal government incentives and boundless faith.
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