Apple started failing dismally after firing Steve Jobs and returned to prominence only after they hired him back, but Microsoft’s problem is that Bill Gates isn’t coming back. They won’t get bold on the pricing because they won’t want to diminish the already iffy prospects of the Ultrabook laptops, so you’ll be able to buy a me-too tablet running probably buggy software for double the price of iPad right as businesses give in and let people bring in their own at zero expense to the enterprise.
And unlike Apple, Microsoft is selling futures once again since nothing’s ready to ship. While it won’t really be any threat to the iPad, it may draw interest from PC users who are more comfortable with a traditional keyboard versus an on screen keyboard.” Microsoft has been short on innovation lately (decades), but I don’t get why they used the Surface name on a tablet when it’s already being used by their coffee table gesture thingy.
One unique aspect of the Microsoft Surface is the keyboard in cover of the tablet. The new challenge to the iPad has arrived in the form of a tablet PC called Surface. I guess MU did reduce the interest in EMRs based on scanned documents quite a bit.įrom The PACS Designer: “Re: Microsoft’s Surface tablet. To compound the problem, the Allscripts implementation was about a year behind and way over budget.” Above is an extract from the Orion Health case study from last year. When HITECH hit, they had no hope of meeting any stage of MU. They were also scanning millions of records per year requiring many FTEs to perform the function. This worked for clinician viewing, but made it impossible to implement CPOE. Paper-based data was scanned and indexed into PDFs which were also available using Orion portal. Instead of implementing a true EHR product, they decided to pull data using Orion into a clinical data repository. They were installing Allscripts in the ambulatory environment and had a best-of-breed approach using Orion for the inpatient setting. The group is installing Cerner, but the Tacoma-based Franciscan group received permission to install Epic in five hospitals and will go live in April 2013.” Verified.įrom Pillsbury DB: “Re: Lahey Clinic. That’s about 48% of all eligible hospitals and 20% of eligible Medicare and Medicaid providers.įrom Jenny: “Re: Catholic Health Initiatives. CMS says that as of the end of May, more than 110,000 EPs and over 2,400 hospitals had been paid a combined $5.7 billion in EHR incentives from Medicare and Medicaid.
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