The software on doctors' desktops must be easily integrated into Healtheon's network if those doctors are going to bring their practice online.
Like Medical Manager, MedicaLogic, which began in the early 90's, sold software to doctors.
Also, wouldn't you rather have millions of youths trying to become software engineers, doctors or entrepreneurs than stray toward violence?
Its software allows doctors to submit information on electronic forms directly over the web from their office computers to drug companies.
New York City officials today are to announce what they hope is a leap in that direction, far beyond what any other part of the country has attempted, by providing free software to doctors who treat hundreds of thousands of people.
The WebMD Corporation, which sells referral and claims-processing software to doctors, said yesterday that it had promoted Kevin Cameron to chief executive and that it might spin off or sell shares in its Internet content business, WebMD Health.
WebMD recorded lower-than-expected sales of new systems and revenue from support and maintenance in the unit that sells software to doctors, Mr. Holstein said in an interview.
TriZetto Group, a start-up that provides software to doctors and health care companies online, said it would acquire IMS Health Inc., a decades-old company that gathers prescription information for drug companies, for stock valued at more than $8 billion.
WebMD is scrambling to stake out its position early by offering new software for doctors' offices and hand-held personal digital devices for physicians that will provide instant access to a patient's medical record, health plan status and treatment suggestions.
In deals this month alone, Healtheon bought the Medical Manager Corporation, a profitable company that provides office management software for doctors; Care Insite an Internet company that was Healtheon/WebMD's biggest competitor in the physician-to-insurer linkage field; and the OnHealth Network, a Web site that provides health care information for consumers.
