Comments on: News 10/31/07

By: Pass the Mustard

Pass the Mustard — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:52:16 +0000

For M_Miller: Misys can’t catch a break because they don’t deserve one. The announcement of Connect as open source is a thinly veiled attempt at some good PR for a company that is in major turmoil. They’re about to lose a bunch of their top sales reps (which they either a. don’t care about or b. are too egocentric to even know to care about). If they were sincere in their efforts to help the small physician offices they would have put their .net based pm/emr they purchased from Pfizer out for open source or some other systemthat had a chance of helping with small office physician automation. Interoperability is important. But, it’s kind of like building super highways that are 10 lanes wide when most of the drivers are still either traveling by foot or at best traveling on horseback.

By: B2B-John

B2B-John — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:39:05 +0000

Re; Microsoft acquisition of GCS
Interesting move by Microsoft going from an infrastructure play to application layer with this acquisition. They did a similar move back in 2000 & 2002 when they acquired ERP companies Great Plains and Navision. Neither of those acquisitions made quite the splash to MS’s top line that they hoped for, it did not trigger massive consolidation in the ERP market (it was already occurring) and it did manage to alienate a number of MS’s ISV partners who were also selling ERP software.

This acquisition will probably not have the same impact as it is a very small acq of a company that has seen very little traction in a very young, emerging regional market. An odd acquisition to say the least.

By: cozmo kramer

cozmo kramer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:41 +0000

I heard the same rumor about Perot layoffs from another source. 500 associates at corporate will be let go and another 500 spread out along client accounts.

By: matthew holt

matthew holt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:04:02 +0000

Medicity may be a great company but it’s cool ad on HISTalk has a basic error. The parachutist jumps out of the plane, freefalls and then opens a paraglider wing. Any one going to Point of the Mountain in Utah near Medicity’s HQ (I think) has probably seen a paraglider wing, and they are NOT the same as paracutes used by freefallers.

I hope they’re more careful than their ad agency.

By: Frank Poggio

Frank Poggio — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:13:42 +0000

Here we go again!! I have been in the HIT world 35 years and it NEVER changes (not technologically speaking). So now Miocrosoft jumps into HC apps! So did IBM in th e 70′s, DEC in the 80′s, and oh yeah… GE in th e 60′s! Doesn’t that sound familiar.

None of these companies (and there’s more) ever made it long term. No doubt in my mind the nature of healtcare and medicine will spit them out in about 5 years.
Good luck MS you’ll need it.