This document is a newsletter about the history of healthcare IT vendors, including corrections to prior articles. It provides a quiz to test the reader's knowledge of the founders of major healthcare IT vendors. The newsletter discusses longevity in leadership positions, using Cerner's CEO as an example, and previews a future article with a visual quiz to identify early healthcare IT pioneers from photographs.

1. H.I.S.-
tory,
by Vince Ciotti
© 2013 by H.I.S. Professionals, LLC, all rights reserved.
Episode #110:
Vendor
C-Suites
Recognize Any Of These Faces?

2. Errata
• Last week’s episode had two gaffs pointed out by HIS-talk readers
that I need to correct – one concerning the ERP quiz and the
second leading to this whole episode on today’s vendor C-Suites.
• First, a reader of my ERP quiz corrected a gaff on Healthland:
– “I just wanted to correct an error from Vince’s ERP quiz in this
week’s HIStory. Healthland Centriq is listed as “EHR only” – i.e.,
not having an ERP. Centriq does in fact have not only an ERP
suite, but full revenue cycle management – all written in the
same language (.NET), on the same integrated database
(Microsoft SQL), that runs on the same hardware, all
developed to be one integrated system. It even has an
integrated, self developed Time & Attendance application.”
• I stand corrected – I must admit, I have been confused with the
evolution of AHN’s“Claris” products into Healthland’s new
“Centriq” product line, so the following page has it fixed:

3. Today’s Leading Vendor ERP Status
VENDOR PRODUCTS WITHERP PRODUCTS WITHOUTERP
McKesson Star, Series, Paragon Horizon
Cerner Millennium
Siemens
MedSeries 4
Unity,Invision, Eagle, Soarian
Epic EpicCare
Allscripts Sunrise
GE Centricity
Meditech Magic, C/S, Release 6
NextGen Sphere
CPSI CPSI System
HMS General Financials
NTT (Keane) Optimum
Harris (QM) Affinity
Healthland Centriq, Classic, APS

4. Errata, cont’d
• Next, April Martin from Cerner, who has been very helpful on that
whole 6-part series, corrects my slide on Cerner’s newest pres:
– “Hi Vince, Do you mind making a couple of corrections to the
last installment? Trace Devanny was President, never
CEO. Zane Burke is also President (your piece indicates he was
just promoted to CEO). There has only been one CEO of Cerner
since its founding – Neal. ;-) I’ve enjoyed the HIS-stories. Fun
stuff. Stay in touch. Thanks! April
– PS: Also, Zane wasn’t recruited to be President; he was
promoted. He’s been here at Cerner since 1996. Neal has
been CEO & Chairman continuously from 1979 to today.”
• This amazing longevity of Neal Patterson started me thinking:
what other HIS vendors have had such similar longevity at the top
as Neal’s 34 years? So blame April for these C-Suite episodes…

5. Today’s Leading HIS Vendors
• So like the ERP quiz, can you think of who founded each of today’s
13 leading HIS vendors, listed belowin order ofannual revenue:
• And in case you can’t read the fine print, the next slide lists today’s
leading vendors names in a larger font,with room for you to write
in the name of their founder(s). See how well you can do without
looking up past HIS-tory episodes on our web site:hispros.com

6. Leading HIS Vendor Founders
• Here’s the complete list of today’s leading HIS vendors, listed in
order of their annual revenue, with room for you to write in their
founders’ names (the number of blank spaces gives you a hint):
1. $3.2B = McKesson (HB) - ___________, ______________ and ___________
2. $2.6B = Cerner,founder:__________, co-founded by_________ & _________
3. $1.8B (est) = Siemens, née SMS: ___________, ___________ and ________
4. $1.5B =Epic.____________
5. $1.4B =Allscripts, née Eclipsys: _______________
6. $850M (est) - GE Healthcare, née IDX/PHAMIS: created by________________
7. $597M = Meditech, still run after all these years by________________
8. $375M = NextGen: née Quality Systems Inc. founded by________________
9. $183M = CPSI, founded by_______________&____________
10. $156M = HMS (Healthcare Management Systems): _________ &_________
11. $150M = Keane, parent giant by_________, and HIS division by___________
12. $106M = QuadraMed, née Compucare, founded by________________
13. $75M (est) = Healthland, formerly Dairyland, founded by______________

7. Visual Q & A
© 2013 by H.I.S. Professionals, LLC, all rights reserved.
Name: __________ __________ _________ _________ _________
Vendor: ______ _______ ______ _______ ______
• If you passed
that verbal
test OK, test
your visual
memory by
naming these
photos of the
same group
of HIS-tory
heroes.
• Then add the
name of the
vendor they
founded too!
Name: __________ __________ _________ _________ ________
Vendor: ______ _______ ______ _______ ______
Name: __________ __________ _________ _________ ________
Vendor: ______ _______ ______ _______ ______
Name: __________ __________ _________ _________ ________
Vendor: ______ _______ ______ _______ ______

8. Credit Where
Credit Is Due
• I must give credit for this
photo quiz idea to Bill
Childs, founder of HIS
printed media starting
with Computers in
Healthcare back in 1980,
who ran this fun series of
quizzes on photo portraits
in the late 80s.
• I fear only the very oldest
of we HIS veterans can get
many of these right as
they were more mid-level.

9. Next Week
• There’s some overlap in
this one, which
contains some of the
same founders listed in
the earlier quiz...
• I must confess, Bill’s
portrait trivia has me
stumped on a number
of faces, so I’ll give you
my best guesses next
week, and see if Bill will
divulge ( or can he still
remember?) all of them
himself!?
• Stay tuned…