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While that all may be true, Healthcare is a completely different space. Importantly Epic is years ahead on meaningful use requirements, and they seem to have a seat at the table so to speak deciding what those requirements might be.

They also have lock in, once you're an Epic hospital, it might bankrupt you trying to switch. The training costs, testing equipment interfaces, building new data interfaces, HL7 engines, and on and on.

Additionally, if you try to switch to a 2nd or 3rd EMR in 10 years the doctors will riot.

AND... if some you new EMR should ever be implicated in killing someone, well you're done.