What Should the Major Tech Companies Do If They Want to Get Into Healthcare?

Buying another technology company, like an EMR company, is not the ideal method for a technology organization to tap into the healthcare market. There was a lot of buzz recently when Jim Cramer made a comment on his show Mad Money recommending Apple buy the electronic medical record vendor, Epic Systems. While that is one approach to gain the market share, it will not transform the industry.

Instead, Apple or another major technology company must buy a hospital or a small health system to transform…