[Tobra]

When these guys came to me in the first place, it was with Centricity, a GE product. Epic was not interested in selling to doctor's offices, until they figured out the amount of money that could be had. They just got that running okay and switched over to Epic. I told those mugs if they had a system that would work with all the other EHR's, they would crush everything else on the market. I used the VHS vs Betamax example at the time.

The EHR stuff was getting pushed prior to the ACA coming along, if I recall correctly. Nothing meaningful has ever been in place to get the various systems to communicate effectively. All this EHR stuff is just a vehicle to make it easier to audit providers and take money back anyway, so maybe it is not so bad the various systems won't communicate with one another.