David Rosenthal: belief

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…What did meaningful use do for them? Well, interestingly, if you just take a step back and say, what is the byproduct of the government paying off a whole industry to adopt something new? What you’re basically doing is pulling forward the future and saying, this was all going to happen eventually. We want to make it all happen right now. To be clear, I think especially after the Kaiser win, Epic was going to become the dominant player anyway, absent of meaningful use. They were starting to run the table on competition. That’s the question, they were starting to. But what you definitely do when you throw $36 billion at the problem is you say, we’re going to close the door on anyone that might become a dominant player after this. The current competitive set is now what we’re dealing with, and we think the current competitive set is good enough that this is shovel-ready enough that we want the best ones to get implemented everywhere. These are stuck in there for multiple decades.…

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