Stodgy healthcare industry - The healthcare industry has been slow to embrace e-commerce solutions. Analysts say one of the biggest obstacles to industry-wide adoption is system incompatibility.

Is it good medicine? - Here is an article from the American Medical News about the growing number of patients that are browsing for second opinions. There are now Internet sites that offer to review cases without examining the patient.

Drug and tech giants form company - Pfizer, Microsoft, and IBM are launching a startup company that will sell Internet-based software and services to office-based physicians. This new company will compete with several other Internet companies, including WebMD, which is also a major partner of Microsoft.

WebMD News - WebMD said it had a net loss of $3.1 billion in the year 2000. Here is a three-year history of WebMD's stock price. WebMD now owns Medical Manager, which provides dialysis billing software for major dialysis providers. Here is an analyst's report on her outlook for WebMD.

Look at this, doc - Here's an article from the BBC about a brand new condition that doctors are seeing - "cyberchondria" or "Internet print-out syndrome".



[This message has been edited by Gary Peterson (edited 04-17-2001).]