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eHealth - Friday, January 20, 2006

Docs Starting To Use Electronic Medical Records

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Maybe the worst job we ever had was filing records at a doctor's office back in our teens. Since then, we have had a fascination with electronic medical records. Sadly, doctors' offices are the last places in the world to adopt computers and databases.

Things may be turning the corner as privately-held Cary, NC-based A4 was just sold to Chicago's Allscripts for $272M.

A4 was founded in 1970 but in 1999 an experienced health market IT pro, John McConnell, took over the company. He was founder of Medic and took that company public. In 1999, A4 was said to be worth just $12M and McConnell bought 25% of the company at a stake worth about $65M today.

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There Is Nothing Worse Than Paper Medical Records

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