PharmEHR Summit 2013 #5

EHRs: The View from Wall Street, #pharmehr

Sean Wieland, Sr Research Analyst

Ed Fotsch MD, Executive Chairman

.You can't buy Epic

. Most "certified" EHRs based on 20+ year old technology

. Massive upgrade opportunity to move client/server to the Cloud, Mobile, Social,

. Big data is the solution looking for the problem, from Retail to Healthcare: comparative effectiveness research
. ACOs differ from prior attempts at capitation is access is access to timely data

. ACOs injects competition in a market that was formally "cost plus"
. ACOs will drive EHR adoption
. Common Well: Google model: multiple data silos from which to search; data has to become a commodity
. Epic is written in Mumps, relies on a datawarehouse