Comments on: Corporate mergers should come alive – at least in Healthcare IT http://blog.fuld.com/?p=66 What's new and news in the world of Competitive Intelligence (CI) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:37:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: EHRScopeLeslie http://blog.fuld.com/?p=66#comment-35 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:12:01 +0000 http://blog.fuld.com/?p=66#comment-35 We have felt this way for quite some time, and in fact in the April 2007 edition of EHR Scope ( http://www.ehrscope.com - and then click Magazine ) - we opined "With over 300 companies providing Electronic Medical Record Software, it is not at all surprising that many experts, including ourselves, believe that there will be a substantial amount of consolidation in the near future." So, the consolidation was inevitable, but I completely agree that $19B, or $35B or however much you'd like to call this stimulus, will certainly increase the speed of this M&A activity! -Leslie We have felt this way for quite some time, and in fact in the April 2007 edition of EHR Scope ( http://www.ehrscope.com - and then click Magazine ) - we opined “With over 300 companies providing Electronic Medical Record Software, it is not at all surprising that many experts, including ourselves, believe that there will be a substantial amount of consolidation in the near future.”

So, the consolidation was inevitable, but I completely agree that $19B, or $35B or however much you’d like to call this stimulus, will certainly increase the speed of this M&A activity!

-Leslie

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