The Failure of America’s Health-IT System and Amazon’s Opportunity
InvestorPlace March 25, 2019
The scandal of the decade is the failure of proprietary software models to automate health IT
A decade ago, I was writing two blogs for ZDNet.
One covered open source. The other covered health IT.
People were very excited about both beats.
Companies like Amazon.com and Alphabet were about to use the cloud, based on open-source software and cheap hardware, to transform the world. By the end of the decade, even mighty Microsoft had succumbed to the movement. In the process, it became the most valuable company in the world.
Meanwhile, the prospect of Electronic Health Records and $26 billion of sweet, sweet stimulus cash were exciting for the health-care sector. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,...