In the latest case of foreigners invading the American homeland to make a buck, a Paris-based IT company seeking to enter the U.S. health IT market has bought Pulse Systems, a maker of electronic health records based in Wichita, Kansas.
The acquisition by Cedegim, a global technology services company, is its first in the EHR market here, reports Modern Healthcare. (No telling what would have happened if the company had tried to enter the U.S. through Arizona.)
Billions of dollars in federal incentive funds are shaking up what Alain Missoffe, chairman of the Cegedim Healthcare Software business unit calls "the rapidly growing U.S. healthcare computerization market." Money set aside by Congress to promote adoption of EHRs represents "considerable opportunities" for health IT companies, Missoffe said.
The landscape, as observed by long-time IT blogger Dana Blankenhorn, looks pretty much the same.
"All areas of the main health IT food chain are looking to get into health IT," wrote Blankenhorn in a blog post for ZDNet Healthcare.
John Pulley
John Pulley has written the Health IT Update blog since May 2011. Prior to becoming a regular contributor to Nextgov, he covered technology for Federal Computer Week and Government Health IT magazines. He has written about government for Federal Times and Air Force Times, as well. Pulley has worked in journalism for more than 20 years. He began his career covering local government for regional newspapers. In addition, he served as a writer and senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education for seven years. In 2006, he founded The Pulley Group, an editorial services agency.
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