More EHR Consolidation with Increased Innovation?

While many new vendors are currently jumping into the growing electronic health record market, the number of EHR offerings will shrink in the future as companies merge or acquire each other.

That's the skinny from Bloomberg Businessweek, which predicts that "tech investors and entrepreneurs see a gold rush akin to the social media boom" with about 750 companies having recently entered the market to offer EHR products.