Comments on: News 11/16/07

By: curious

curious — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:17:37 +0000

Cardinal and eclipsys appears like a marriage made in heaven
Cardinal will Love eclipsys, especially the way they are going after the very difficult CPOE market.
They are doing very well on acute as well as ambulatory side.
Cardinal will have better control on drug dispensing through eclipsys eRx solutions.

By: PACSFerret

PACSFerret — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:15:05 +0000

Ten rules: erudite, accurate and hell, made me smile. Hold firm for the arrival of the open-sourcers

By: Mark Turuk

Mark Turuk — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:48:08 +0000

Love the top-ten. Oldies, but goodies:

Everything always takes twice as long and costs four times as much as you planned. –Programmers’ axiom

Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives to produce bigger idiots. –Software engineers’ saying

So far the Universe is winning. –Applications programmers’ saying

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. –Computer saying

By: Inga

Inga — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:34:23 +0000

Re: 10 Rules for EMR…Mr. H is such a curmudgeon (Been around the IT Block, too.) Or perhaps I am such a Polly Anna. Someone please tell me Mr. H is just being an old sourpuss.

By: John Moore

John Moore — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:25:32 +0000

Love those 10 universal rules of EMR deployment. Funny thing is, they really are no different than the ERP deployments I’ve seen in manufacturing. Honestly, wish this sector would start to realize that they really are not all that different than other market verticals when it comes to roll-outs of significant software packages.

BTW, over in the ERP space, the general rule of thumb was that when you added ALL costs for deploying a solution, from initial definition of scope, to RFP on out to lost productivity at switch over and training, the cost would be about 10x the software costs. Thing is, if anybody ever went to their Board with that kind of number, they’d be thrown right out.

And yes, with IBM picking up Cognos, and SAP having recently bought Business Objects, the only BI hold-out is SAS. But no, Oracle will not be buying them anytime soon as they previously purchased Hyperion, which has a pretty sweet solution. SAS likes their independence, customers like their products and services, they are still growing and well-respected. See no reason why they would sell-out in the foreseeable future.