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Major healthcare IT companies like Centricity and Epic already provide iPad apps for physicians to use. drchrono says their biggest competition is paper charts
by iy56 15y ago
Major healthcare IT companies like Centricity and Epic already provide iPad apps for physicians to use. drchrono says their biggest competition is paper charts because everyone that already has an electronic records system would rather use an iPad app provided by the same vendor.
- ABrandt 15y agodisclaimer: I work for Epic Paper is drchrono's competition not because they can't go head to head with the major vendors, but because they're likely going after a completely different market. Epic targets the largest healthcare organizations (i.e. Kaiser Permanente) and thus our software is geared towards those specific use cases. EHRs have been in place for many many years in most organizations this size (100+ physicians). I would imagine that drchrono is instead targeting much smaller practices and facilities that still rely heavily on paper. This is a niche offering. Fortunately for them, a niche in healthcare IT is still very big business.