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Consulting Revenue
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Healthcare Informatics
- Article date:
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Ciotti, Vince; Alcaro, Bob
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Many installations only become reality when CIOs call on a little help from their friends.
Some will decry this fact, others will laud it, but HIT consulting has grown to nearly $5 billion last year, 23 percent of the HIT market. In truth, it is becoming hard to separate HIT vendors from "consulting" firms these days, as:
HIT Vendors - almost all major players now have a "Consulting" division and offer their clients such services as:
* Strategic planning (totally objective, we're sure)
* System audits (who else knows their products as well?)
* Implementation (which now often exceeds software license fees!)
* Outsourcing from giants such as McKesson, Siemens and Cerner
* "Remote hosting" - ...