Stunning Announcement: AMA Goes to the Dogs in Deal With Physician Web Portal Company

April 23rd, 2009 admin

What’s stunning about this deal is who its NOT with.  The AMA chose NOT to partner with any of the incumbent electronic medical record (EMR) companies, e.g., Allscripts, GE, Epic, NextGen, or many others. For those of you who have not seen earlier posts in this series, please understand that the reference to “goes to the dogs” is a great compliment. In a joint press release , the American Medical Association and Covisint unveiled an agreement yesterday: Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) announced today that its Covisint subsidiary signed an agreement with the American Medical Association (AMA) to deploy an innovative health information exchange solution delivering value to its 240,000 member physicians and the physician population at large…. Covisint will enable AMA physicians to have access to a variety of health information technologies via an AMA-branded, web-based solution. …


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