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...West Coast, at San Diego-based Scripps Health, a new IDX system helps give doctors remote access to comprehensive digital records, CT scans, X rays and lab tests. "Over the next five years, we'll be the rule, not the exception," says Chris Van Gorder, Scripps CEO. "Patients, doctors, employers and the government are going to demand...
...names like Epocrates, Iscribe, Ephysician and PatientKeeper are all struggling to get small practices to use handhelds for writing prescriptions, checking drug interactions or insurance coverage, and storing patient data. Fighting to bring large medical groups and hospitals into the info age are traditional health-IT vendors such as IDX, Cerner, Epic, Eclipsys and Siemens Medical. Last month rehabilitative-care specialist HealthSouth announced plans to build a $100 million, model digital hospital...
...industry. Most e-scription start-ups, once flush with venture capital, are on the block, looking to be acquired or to align with bigger fish that can offer womb-to-tomb IT solutions. IBM's new venture will probably be a buyer, and Allscripts already has a deal with IDX, whose own back-office, practice-management system is used by more than 100,00 doctors. "This whole industry is so fragmented," says Wygod. "In order to make it more efficient, you can't have so many different players." Wygod just has to hope that when the paper chase...