Comments on: Microsoft to Acquire Sentillion http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Gerry Higgins http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7360 Gerry Higgins Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:01:01 +0000 http://histalk2.com/?p=3739#comment-7360 Great acquisition. Microsoft's Health Solutions Group takes its time to put the correct components together, but I am baised - helped develop 'Azyxxi', precusor of Amalga. Great acquisition. Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group takes its time to put the correct components together, but I am baised – helped develop ‘Azyxxi’, precusor of Amalga.

]]> By: John@Chilmark http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7325 John@Chilmark Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:36:16 +0000 http://histalk2.com/?p=3739#comment-7325 Good move by MSFT and the largest acq that the HSG has made to date. Clearly, MSFT is putting up the fence posts around the traditional HIT/EMR vendors and I'm not even sure they see it, like deer in the headlights. With this acq., however, these vendors may begin to wake up and now the question is, how will they respond. As to the previous poster's comment/ques: No, do not believe this was a fire sale. Sentillion has good tech under the hood. The opportunity to leverage MSFT clout to go intern'l was probably to good to pass up. And for MSFT, they now have even more customers (Sentillion's customer base) to call upon. Good move by MSFT and the largest acq that the HSG has made to date. Clearly, MSFT is putting up the fence posts around the traditional HIT/EMR vendors and I’m not even sure they see it, like deer in the headlights. With this acq., however, these vendors may begin to wake up and now the question is, how will they respond.

As to the previous poster’s comment/ques: No, do not believe this was a fire sale. Sentillion has good tech under the hood. The opportunity to leverage MSFT clout to go intern’l was probably to good to pass up. And for MSFT, they now have even more customers (Sentillion’s customer base) to call upon.

]]> By: Deutsch http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7324 Deutsch Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:09:35 +0000 http://histalk2.com/?p=3739#comment-7324 From a Sentillion point of view, it was simply an objective to cash in as the company was 10+ years old and VC invested. Executive Management staying on is a problem, I know some! From a Sentillion point of view, it was simply an objective to cash in as the company was 10+ years old and VC invested.

Executive Management staying on is a problem, I know some!

]]> By: mogall http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7323 mogall Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:56:27 +0000 http://histalk2.com/?p=3739#comment-7323 nice spin by Seliger....Sentillion saw the writing on the wall. nice spin by Seliger….Sentillion saw the writing on the wall.

]]> By: Scott Leising http://histalk2.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-to-acquire-sentillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7322 Scott Leising Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:50:29 +0000 http://histalk2.com/?p=3739#comment-7322 Very good acquisition by Microsoft. As Neupert says - MS doesn't want Amalga to be an EMR, but clinicians work in an environment where there is one to many systems that collectively make up their EMR. I have never been a big fan of CCOW between alot of differnt applications, especially to see combined data like allergies, or all results, etc. But this combination could be very effective. Amalga is terrific at combining data from healthcare silos. Where it breaks the normal workflow is that clinicians then have to go to another system to enter their orders, documentation, etc. If you make Amalga viewer the starting point to view the composite data, then use Sentillion to take the user to the data entry system (no login user context, no searching patient context, direct to the proper data entry screen) then the composite system will operate just like a single large EMR. This is a great way to let healthcare systems implement and operate in an EMR fashion without the forklift replacements of all their various systems to a single vendor. Very good acquisition by Microsoft. As Neupert says – MS doesn’t want Amalga to be an EMR, but clinicians work in an environment where there is one to many systems that collectively make up their EMR. I have never been a big fan of CCOW between alot of differnt applications, especially to see combined data like allergies, or all results, etc. But this combination could be very effective.

Amalga is terrific at combining data from healthcare silos. Where it breaks the normal workflow is that clinicians then have to go to another system to enter their orders, documentation, etc. If you make Amalga viewer the starting point to view the composite data, then use Sentillion to take the user to the data entry system (no login user context, no searching patient context, direct to the proper data entry screen) then the composite system will operate just like a single large EMR. This is a great way to let healthcare systems implement and operate in an EMR fashion without the forklift replacements of all their various systems to a single vendor.

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