When HITECH passed with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in January of 2009, many people thought healthcare organizations — both hospitals and physician practices — would immediately flood the marketing looking for EMRs and the highly specialized people needed to install and customize them. But that didn’t happen. Instead, there ensued a kind of […]
Allscripts & Eclipsys to Combine in HIT Mega-Merger
Allscripts and Eclipsys are merging in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, will be the CEO of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and CEO of Eclipsys, will become Chairman of the combined company and, “on a full-time basis, will focus on key client and strategic relationships, product and process integration, strategy and the company’s international business.”