Gartner spots MidTN Healthtech firms

Shareable Ink and DisastersNet, both based in middle Tennessee, are among the firm's tagged "Cool Vendors" among healthcare IT firms by Gartner. The reports is here.

Nashville Health IT garners awards

We had to chuckle, reading the headline on a Nov. 25 release from VU spinoff portfolio company Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), in which the company announced it had taken the Gartner-linked "2008 Healthcare IT Summit by Storm, Winning Two of Five Award Categories." You gotta love such unbridled enthusiasm, which, these days, could only arise where there's plenty of cash on-tap. It's not just still-small startups that are bragging about their tech expertise. A few weeks ago, it was venture-backed Emdeon blowing its horn about winning SAP/Business Object's Business Intelligence Excellence Awards. Emdeon is owned by private-equity players General Atlantic LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC.

Gartner, AeA on IT now and future

Gartner Inc., the IT research and advisory company, this week issued a list of disruptions transforming the software industry and IT-spend related trends and recommended coping actions. AeA reported today the high-tech industry added more than 78,000 jobs in the 1H08 (compared with 111K same period, year-earlier), reflecting a sharp slowing of the sector, with pockets like software and engineering trending stronger.