Comments on: Monday Morning Update 7/16/07

By: Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:43:18 +0000

Epic’s non-compete is not primarliy an issue as far as working for competitors (Cerner, Allscripts, etc.), but rather is an issue when trying to work for existing Epic clients. Generally, employees cannot work for any existing Epic clients for 1 year after they terminate employment at Epic.
Of course, if you are in particularly good favor with Epic at the time that you leave employment, Epic has quietly allowed certain employees to secure employment at select clients. They are inconsistent in the application of their non-competes.

By: 'RoundTooLong

'RoundTooLong — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:31:48 +0000

Re: Ill Nursing bill. Mr HISTalk, stow the partisan commentary would you? Our fabulously expensive, error prone, uncoordinated health care system is brought to you by the free market which the R’s defend to the death. There is plenty of un-healthy policy to go around.

Staffing laws are dumb on the face of it though. You can’t legislate the creation of nurses to fill the positions. We don’t have enough, period. How about getting the “we’ve got way too much money” geniuses behind LeapFrog to fund new nursing schools or scholarships rather than create yet another way of measuring a broken system.

All that said…keep it up Mr HISTalk!

By: hmmm

hmmm — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:28:36 +0000

A regurgitation of Sentillion’s unsubstantiated sales numbers and dubious “we were first” tagline but no facts on Sentillion’s 30% employee blood letting or the toppling of their president or analysis of the goal of their glossy media makeover? Hmmm…

By: HITMan

HITMan — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:43:03 +0000

RE: Verisign and Healthvision – I don’t know why Angela is calling the Verisign investment in Healthvision “failed” — that relationship is NOT over by any means. Verisign maintains a seat on the HV board. I’m surprised Mr. HISTalk would run that statement without fact checking with the folks at HV.