Comments on: News 10/26/07

By: llcoolj

llcoolj — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:21:32 +0000

Why not the new execs have no understanding of the problems and little way to measure the business. Its a free ride…

By: wonderwoman

wonderwoman — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:43:16 +0000

Why are you still working at the company if it’s that bad?

By: SpyderMan

SpyderMan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:53:23 +0000

Despite the barrage of press releases (including round two of Newt), Misys continues to implode. In addition to the departures of Pritts and D’Rozario, add Charles Lambert and Cathy McKillip.

We now have no products, even worse support, and our best executives are being paid to not work. We can only hope that our illiustrious UK Board led by Cadbury and King see that entering the second year of Mike Lawrie’s leadership we’re headed for the same strong results he brought to Siebel.

By: Larry Lipchitz

Larry Lipchitz — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:20:04 +0000

Eustice McGargle has it right. While there will be a market for healthy people to keep track of their health records, it will be small. The value proposition of a PHR becomes very real for a person with multiple disease states. If the PHR is “connected” (to “a” physician or to a RHIO/HIE), then the value proposition becomes compelling. As more and more of us are waking up and finding our parents in need of help navigating this mess we call healthcare, having a tool for a family member to manage a loved one’s health will become a necessity.

By: The Alchemist

The Alchemist — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:23:06 +0000

Re: PHRs. In the spring of 2000, I was privy to an Initial Public Offering for a privately funded patient-centric health repository model. The business model was simple and impressive for 2000; establish an Internet database for the repository of private health patient’s laboratory data at a monthly service fee of $2.00. The initial subscription to this service estimated start up was a minimum of 100,000 patient profiles per month with a novel inexpensive sign-on device, ASP facial recognition web camera. You do the math for this simple PHR. Remember the promise of the Application Service Provider? You may know ASP as the evolved form of Software as a Service (SaaS).

Outcome for this PHR is obvious if you had any money in the stock market in the spring of 2000 – The Crash of dot-com business IPOs. Too bad for healthlab.net, down but not forgotten. I understand that a Phoenix might be raising from the IPO ashes.