IDG Contributor Network: Apple vs. Microsoft 3.0: The quest for electronic medical record supremacy?

The current state of healthcare delivery, and specifically electronic medical records (EMR), is reminiscent of the state of office productivity software in the business world during the '90s.

During the late '80s and into the '90s, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and a host of lesser word processors battled for supremacy in the business world. Each had their pros and cons, but the global economy would really explode in the late '90s once one of these titans became the industry standard. 

Apple had conceded the desktop operating system wars to Microsoft well in advance of the battle for word processing champion. By the time the best OS Microsoft has ever produced (prior to Windows 10) -- Windows XP -- was released, Apple was well into its process of reinventing itself as a consumer oriented, and not an enterprise-focused, company.

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