"Healthcare needs an information nervous system that reacts in real time."

Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media

"Over the next decade, costs and regulatory mandates will require providers to take a system wide approach to overhauling IT."

McKinsey

"CIOs at HDOs should respond by identifying cloud computing initiatives, enterprise image archiving, and e-mail."

Gartner

"Hospitals will be well positioned not only to meet their compliance responsibilities but also to lower their operating costs significantly while improving the quality of patient care."

McKinsey

"HITECH's ties payments specifically to the achievement of advances in healthcare processes and outcomes."

New England Journal of Medicine

"Starting in 2011, the ARRA will provide $37 billion to hospitals and physicians making meaningful use of electronic health records."

McKinsey

"Clinical decision support systems help physicians make data-driven diagnostic decisions at the point of care."

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory

"We see such a seismic shift in the US health insurance industry, which faces the most sweeping changes in its half-century history."

McKinsey

"EHRs need to be able to preserve data over and beyond their retention schedule, in some type of unaltered state."

Michelle Dougherty, AHIMA

"The ranks of healthcare payers comprise more than 350 companies, with combined revenues of $500 billion and combined IT spending of $13 billion annually."

McKinsey

"Per capita we spend roughly $8,000 annually, more of our GDP (16.4% or roughly $2.4 trillion) on healthcare than any country in the world."

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid