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Sector Snap: Health care IT falls on funding delay - Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Health care information technology stocks slid Tuesday after a Leerink Swann analyst said the electronic medical records portion of President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus package will not help the sector right away. "Our best guess as to the time line for federal ...
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Analyst Throws Water on "Hope" in Medical IT
Fund My Mutual Fund — ... check the lemmings will run right back into the name ... on hope. I'd much rather buy stocks on fundamentals rather than "HOPE" but almost all the big movers of late are hope stocks - the entire commodity space is flying on hopes of the global recovery that is "coming soon". So in the next 2 sessions or so we should see if hope (thesis) once again overpowers reality. I'll have to look closer at ATHN as it has a quite good chart as well. Here is the "reality" Health care information technology stocks slid Tuesday after a Leerink Swann ...

Profit from Obama's Digital Health Care Initiative
The Tech Farm — ... Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region. CERN is a $3.1 Billion company, with a forward PE of 15, an estimated 5 year estimated growth rate of 20% for a good PEG of 0.75. Future of Digital Records and Health Care Information Systems The Future of Digital Records and Health Care Information Systems is bright, even without President Elect Obama's Digital Record initiative. However, from a short term point of view, there could be challenges. Earlier this month, firm Leerink Swan downgraded ATHN from Outperform to Market Perform . The Analyst Bret Jones said that ...

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