Many individuals watch the inventory market on a reasonably common foundation, however typically it takes a professional to make sense of what is usually a very murky or unstable panorama. Thankfully, there are professionals who specialize within the well being IT market.
Shahab Vagefi is managing director in Thomas H. Lee Companions’ healthcare vertical who focuses on healthcare info know-how. He’s the visitor on this week’s HIMSSCast.
Vagefi provides his views on why there are not as many well being IT shares as there was once. He discusses personal well being IT corporations, and if HIT is extra of a personal firm trade.
Has momentum shifted to corporations extra on the digital well being entrance vs. EHRs?
He additionally talks about how HITECH made well being IT and EHRs large 15 years in the past, however ponders whether or not as we speak is extra about digital well being than EHRs.
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Speaking factors:
- His ideas on the truth that there aren’t as many well being IT shares as there was once? For instance, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are historical past.
- Epic, after all, has at all times been personal. So are eClinicalWorks and Meditech. These are three large digital well being data corporations. Is there one thing about well being IT that lends itself to corporations being personal?
- Has momentum shifted to corporations extra on the digital well being entrance vs. EHRs?
- Hospital IT was huge 15 years in the past round HITECH, after all. What’s the market taking a look at now?
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