Brick and mortar stores can compete if they offer good customer service, which companies like Best Buy clearly have not been doing. That’s why it has basically turned into a showroom for Amazon. Look at Apple, the stores have definitely helped their bottom line.
I, for one, support Amazon’s business model. Who loses from what basically amounts to a non-profit retailer? Wall Street? Clearly not, because investors don’t seem to mind paying a sky-high price (dat P/E ratio) for AMZN stock.
Excellent, glad someone is giving this layout a go! I firmly believe this is the future of work office computing. Microsoft needs to fully optimize Office for touch before this catches on, though.
The HITECH act includes many initiatives to incentivize doctors to get into EMR documentation. In a year or two, that incentive will become a penalty. One way or another, hospitals are going to be forced into this. If NY state wants HIE mass adoption, they’ll have to adopt a similar policy to basically force people into it.
I wouldn’t worry about EMR vendors refusing to develop ways to integrate. If their customers demand it, they will have no choice if they want to say competitive.
