Already, there is in place a major hurdle in that each time a vendor upgrades its healthcare software product suite, each product that is receiving an upgrade has to be re-certified at a cost of around $50,000. (internal pre-certification cost, fees payable to certification agencies). Surely this is a powerful dis-incentive....

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