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I don't see IBM as a big player in Health IT. I think they desire to be a big player which is why there's all sorts of noise about Watson and healthcare. It's marketing aimed at the C-suite.

Epic systems is probably the IBM or Microsoft equivalent in health IT. McKesson, Siemens, and Cerner are also no slouches.

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Hmm, it's possible that my contacts and friends in health IT have led to selection bias on my part. A quick google seemed to confirm my original train of thought but lacked any real numbers so it's entirely convincing that it's all marketing fluff like you say. My personal heath IT experience was aimed at individual doctors office level systems and the test users tended to tie back to Watson and IBM cloud services. That said I know A LOT of heath is still woefully bad at having e-records so it was likely a tiny slice of the market that we targeted.

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