Many people follow the stock market on a regular basis, but sometimes it takes an expert to make sense of what can be a very murky or volatile landscape. Fortunately, there are experts who specialize in the healthcare IT market.
Shahab Vagefi is a managing director at Thomas H. Lee Partners, a healthcare information technology firm. He is a guest on HIMSSCast this week.
Vagefi gives his take on why there don’t seem to be as many healthcare IT stocks as there used to be. He discusses private healthcare IT companies and whether HIT is a private company industry.
Is the trend shifting towards companies focusing more on digital health versus EHR?
He also talked about how HITECH made the leap forward in health IT and EHR 15 years ago, but he wondered if there is more emphasis on digital health or EHR today.
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Communication skill:
- What are your thoughts on the fact that there aren’t as many health IT stocks as there used to be? For example, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are history.
- Of course, Epic has always been a private company. So have eClinicalWorks and Meditech. Those are the three big electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that makes companies private?
- Is the trend shifting towards companies focusing more on digital health versus EHR?
- Of course, hospital IT grew up around HITECH 15 years ago. Where is the market headed now?
More information about this episode:
The Great Digital Health Reset – and How IT Leaders Should Plan for What’s Next
Can Oracle Make Cerner’s EHR Sing? CIOs and Analysts Speak Out
Survey finds vendors must better understand CIO needs
Six vendors, including Epic, demonstrate interoperability reduces patient falls
EHR Vendors Demonstrate New GPT Features at HIMSS23
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