Healthcare IT News March 24, 2015
The time is now for a “3rd Platform EHR,” according to IDC — systems that operate primarily in the cloud and provide more flexibility than today’s “2nd Platform” client/server technology.
“The 3rd Platform, with cloud as its foundation, is widespread and growing across the country today,” but mostly for discreet elements of healthcare, such as population health, IT operations and patient engagement, IDC analyst Judy Hanover writes in a new IDC Health Insights report, “Business Strategy: Crossing the Innovation Gap from 2nd Platform to 3rd Platform Acute Care Systems — the athenahealth and BIDMC Collaboration.”
IDC sees 3rd Platform systems as “characterized by ease of access, and ubiquitously available applications that can be securely accessed from multiple endpoint devices, coupled...
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