Hospitals/Big Healthcare need to be sure the vendor will be around for a decade or three. It is very hard for a startup to offer this assurance in a believable manner. It will take someone like Google to tackle this.
Right, part of their problem is that they're demanding the wrong thing. Instead of demanding a high degree of stability from one vendor, they should be demanding open standards and real interoperability, so their eggs aren't all in one obsolete basket.
Wrong. This is like saying we should demand only a small degree of reliability from airplane wings, but we should make them easily replaceable.
I don't think their insurers would like that. When medical records start getting lost/exposed because of small outages or vendor changes, the Feds will come down very hard.
