It looks like Dell is trying to cash in the recent EMR.
Here is an excerpt from Health IT News:
The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker on Thursday introduced an electronic medical record system for hospital-affiliated physician practices. The intent, said Dell executives, is to accelerate the sharing and meaningful use of digital patient information among hospitals and physician practices.
Dell executives say their EMR solution is sponsored by hospitals for their affiliated physicians and designed to make it affordable and practical for physician practices to transition from paper to electronic records.
From the description, it seems like hospital will be able to partner with Dell in order to get doctors to purchase EMR from Dell. Unlike the personal computer that you currently use Dell is a hardware company and not software. Most likely Dell will be partnering with another software company to provide the actual EMR software (looks like eClinicalWorks). Software in general can be run on any hardware. It will be interesting to see whether Dell’s strategy to position themselves as the hardware for EMR will workout going forward.