It sounds like you guys make really useful software! As you say, MDs who have the skills and are inclined to do this sort of stuff are few and far between. My

It sounds like you guys make really useful software! As you say, MDs who have the skills and are inclined to do this sort of stuff are few and far between. My grad program in medical informatics has a master's track whose graduates are mostly MDs, and they would be quite well qualified for this sort of thing... except that most of them go on to either be CIOs or implementation consultants, and typically make far more than analysts do. I think it's something that they're going to have to start teaching in medical schools, however. As more and more places start taking quality improvement seriously, being able to think systematically about clinical data is going to become a very important skill for doctors to possess. Of course, our experience thus far with trying to get it into the curriculum has not been very encouraging. It's amazing- doctors love trying out new gadgets or drugs, so they're clearly not inherently afraid of technology or of change... but try and get them to modify their curricula, and they look at you like you're crazy.