A growing number of health care providers, including networks and medical groups are getting into the software business as a way of offseting the expense of upgrading their own systems. Some are going the Application Service Provider route, offering to host electronic medical record systems for smaller medical groups. A good example is Morgan Haugh Medical Group in Kentucky, which is attempting to attract smaller groups by offering them a ride on the McKesson software it uses. That's a solution which certainly sounds like it makes good business sense, which is what vendors are counting on. Ultimately, however, ASP solutions in health care face the same obstacles they have elsewhere.
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