Where are we now? ... Guerra: Health IT Vendors Vieing For Platform Space

Colleagues,

Please see article on the U.S. Health IT industry that I have found particularly enlightening ...

... From Anthony Guerra on his analysis coming out of the HIMSS conference last week ............

... throughout the week, vendors repeatedly told me two things: They thought healthcare IT had to start working like the iPhone, which functions as a platform for others to build applications on; and they most desperately wanted to be that platform ... the most important trend at HIMSS10 — it was all Apples and platforms

Verizon Launches IT Platform
Hospira MedNet safety software platform
GE Healthcare Launches Next-Generation eHealth Platform
HealthVault--a security-enhanced, Web-based data storage platform
The RemedyMD Mosaic platform
Fujitsu's Med-Serv 50 patient registration kiosk, an open hardware platform
MEDecision's Alineo, a collaborative healthcare management platform
VisionShare's Secure Exchange Platform
Helios by Eclipsys, the company's open platform
Cisco HealthPresence--a care-at-a-distance technology platform
Venyu Virtual Disaster Recovery platform
The Nuvon VEGA platform
eClinicalWorks platform
Xerox DocuShare--an enterprise content management platform
Mirth Corporation's technology platform
lifeIMAGE, provider of the medical image e-sharing platform
The open platform of the Polycom VVX 1500
4medica Launches Integrated Health Record Platform
Medicity's iNexx Health 4.0 platform
Wolters Kluwer Health--Medi-Span Clinical, a CDS platform
Navinet's End-To-End Healthcare Communications Platform
The EDIMS technology platform
InterSystems HealthShare platform
Netkey's platform
AeroScout's platform
M*Modal's Speech Understanding platform
The next killer app? Who cares--that's so 2005 ... adopting the iPhone model means leveraging the "community" to write applications on top of your platform ... thus enhancing the value of your platform.

Brilliant!

Read on at: http://healthsystemcio.com/2010/03/09/at-himss10-a-race-to-the-bottom/

Anthony Guerra is the founder and editor of healthsystemCIO.com, a site dedicated to serving the strategic information needs of healthcare CIOs.
He can be reached at
aguerra@healthsystemCIO.com.