Where's Epic?
In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and healthcare information technology futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
The context was a much-ballyhooed consortium of five health IT vendors announced Monday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in New Orleans.
They joined hands to launch a not-for-profit consortium called the CommonWell Health Alliance, with the stated aim of improving health information interoperability. The founding members of the consortium are Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Athenahealth, Cerner Corp., Greenway Medical Technologies, and McKesson Corp., along with its connectivity unit RelayHealth. At the launch, the founders said the consortium is open to everyone.
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