Today, Dell announced that they will be purchasing Perot Systems in order to improve Dell’s market share in the healthcare IT sector and increase Perot’s international presence. This is another major shift in the EHR market to include some of the big IT powerhouses, which this year has included SalesForce.com’s alliance with PracticeFusion and the eCW / Sam’s Club / Dell deal. As we predicted when ARRA came out, the high profile stimulus is going to continue to reshape the healthcare IT vendor make-up.

A year ago, the major player in NextGen hosting was Tellurian Networks with quite a few hosting clients. Tellurian started as a small hosting operation, and does an excellent job of capturing much of the new EHR ASP hosting market, growing quickly to a powerhouse within its niche. Tellurian was picked up by Perot Systems in November 2008 in a very smart acquisition. So now the customers who signed up for Tellurian will fall under Dell. With Dell’s immense resources, it will be such an exciting change for clients using the ASP model!