You might be interested in athenahealth, a Web-oriented healthcare company which actually runs a sort of startup incubator ("More Disruption, Please"), and has

You might be interested in athenahealth, a Web-oriented healthcare company which actually runs a sort of startup incubator ("More Disruption, Please"), and has led a lot of initiatives to improve interoperability. They realize these things create trouble for them as well as the rest of the field, but I think they're betting that their rivals are significantly less flexible than they are. (This is a safe bet, of course. The giants of the field, Epic and Cerner, are infamous for overwork, low pay, and high turnover. Their technology's also obsolete: Epic has a VB6 front end and MUMPS back end; Cerner uses C++, but it's probably C++ thinly translated from C thinly translated from Pascal, so they're not a whole lot better. At least MUMPS isn't vulnerable to C-style buffer overflow attacks!)