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It’s true that Epic and Cerner are the dominant players when it comes to hospital EMRs, but they have less of an influence in outpatient settings outside of academic medical centers.

For larger outpatient practices that are participating in value based programs (ACOs, care bundles, etc.), such as the type apple amazon or google may choose to work with or, less likely, build, there’s less of a need to rely existing EHR vendors and a greater likelihood to rely on a variety of tools that are able to interact with each other.

The trend is for more and more care to move outpatient. There’s opportunity for innovation there.