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SAP on HANA: where SAP wins and how it has missed the real goal (Dennis Howlett/Irregular Enterprise via ZDNet)

A Promise Delivered – SAP Business Suite Is Now Powered by HANA ( Vishal Sikka/SAP HANA Blog)

Forrester: IT spending facing challenges in 2013
Particularly in Europe, and in servers and storage (The Register)

RAND: Health IT No Bargain Yet (Information Week)

History of Electronic Health Records (EHR) (Software Advice)

Comcast launches Xfinity X1 platform in Philadelphia, New Jersey (FierceCable)


Comcast, Time Warner Cable take lower profile at CES 2013 (FierceCable)

NBC has no qualms about using news unit as a marketing tool (LA Times: Company Town)

New student startup combats textbook price
Textbook Friend was found by freshman roommates (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Ben Franklin funds technology startups
Five Lehigh Valley high-tech companies get financing. (Allentown Morning Call)




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Quality Systems and its Horsham-based NextGen Healthcare continue rapid growth; NextGen reports first payment to client for "Meaningful Use"

Quality Systems, whose business consists primarily of NextGen Healthcare of Horsham, reported its earnings last week. For its 4th quarter, net income was up 42% on revenue growth of 24%. For the full 2011 fiscal year, revenue reached $353.4 million, up 21%, and net income was $61.6 million, an increase of 27%.


Quality Systems' market value is now $2.5 billion; its shares are up to $86 from $56 a year ago.


NextGen Healthcare, whose electronic health record (EHR) systems are targeted primarily towards smaller medical practices, is benefitting from the Obama Administration's HITECH Act of 2009, which offers significant subsidies to physicians who convert to EHRs and achieve the government criteria for "meaningful use". NextGen reported last week that one of its clients just became one of the first providers to receive payment for demonstrating meaningful use.


NextGen Healthcare says it has more than 1200 employees.



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