applications similar to his company’s, Pickard says he believes it’s unlikely.
“What we’ve learned is that EHR vendors have in many cases attempted to work in medical imaging, and have shied away from it after trying,” he says. Two reasons for this are that data sets are large, and businesses must obtain FDA regulatory clearance on certain types of medical imaging software before they can sell it, he says.
“We traditionally have not seen moves from EHR vendors into the medical imaging space,” Pickard says. “It’s a large enough discipline that it’s standalone. There’s a place for companies like ours in the world of EHRs.”
