A new wrinkle in federal rules this year aims to urge more hospitals and other medical providers into the 21st century.
Those expectations have helped lift a handful of companies in IBD’s Computer Software-Medical group, a group at the intersection of health care and Internet technology — and key suppliers to the health industry’s conversion from paper to digital electronic records.Cerner (CERN),Athenahealth (ATHN) andVeeva Systems (VEEV) are at the head of that list. All three have seen benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill. All have also seen their share of recent ups and downs.