Comments on: News 6/26/09

By: skopjok

skopjok — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:31:04 +0000

Steve Jobs didn’t necessarily have liver failure. Metastatic tumor in the liver can be an indication for transplant, although standard indications are very limited. The hospital in Memphis may have a specific research protocol going and that may be why he went there, but I haven’t been able to confirm that.

By: HIS Junkie

HIS Junkie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:33:39 +0000

“so there’s not much incentive to lose customers by making them healthier.”

I disagree… if you keep the weak alive two things happen that will generate even more revenue:
1) By keeping the weak alive we turn the natural law upside down – the weak will hand down the defective genes and reproduce more weak and that means more (sick) customers!
2) The longer they live the more health resources they will use over their remaing lifecycle.

So…is it not a conflict of interset to keep the weak going?

By: Deborah Kohn

Deborah Kohn — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:05:58 +0000

Dear Big Nurse:

What is the software???

By: Hammy

Hammy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:02:55 +0000

“(nobody backs up PCs across the network”

Mr. HISTalk should be careful when making blanket statements such as the above. We do and I know of other provider and non-provider organizations that do. Not all of us are able to convince upper management to utilize NAS (network attached storage). However, with HITECH, I do have another tool to convince them.

By: former misys

former misys — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:12:23 +0000

Accounting question – If a software provider sells 100 licenses to a reseller, can the company recognize the revenue prior to the reseller deploying the software in the field? I’ve seen a number of reseller deals lately at both Allscripts and NextGen. It’s been positioned as an attempt to address the anticipated demand, but the other motive is to help generate sales b/c the market had a slow Q1 and beginning of Q2 as practices tried to get their arms around legislation.