Could Amazon or Apple actually make a dent in the EHR market?
Healthcare IT News July 31, 2017
The space is ripe for disruption, but switching vendors is difficult and that will make building a new electronic health record platform, and convincing customers to adopt it, a long and uphill battle.
What with rumors swirling that Apple and Amazon are each considering ways to drive deeper into healthcare, including EHRs and telehealth, it’s time for a reality check.
The central question is whether even technology stalwarts such as Amazon, Apple and their ilk could, in fact, build an EHR from scratch and then gain enough market share to make the whole endeavor a worthwhile investment.
Yes, if anyone could accomplish that feat, Amazon and Apple are chief among them. But there’s more to it.
It is perhaps a...