Fairview Health CEO declares EMR Supplier is an “Impediment to Innovation”

For years I have been coaching Suppliers that their competition is not just other Suppliers in their category but all the initiatives the IDNs are working on. Initiatives like:

Recent mergers
Physician integration
CSC development
EMR implementation

I have often said “if you offered your product for free they may not be able to convert because they have all hands on deck with a more pressing or prioritized project.”

The human capital that goes into EMR implementation, adoption and continued progression is extensive.

Fairview CEO James Hereford states “I will submit that one of the biggest impediments to innovation in health care is Epic, because the way that Epic thinks about their [intellectual property] and the IP of others that develop on that platform.”

Certainly EMR implementation is one of the many major projects that can keep IDNs from converting to better suppliers. Read the below article to understand a major top 5 concern of IDN CEOs everywhere.

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