A light EMR. Everybody wants one, lots of people say they've built one. So far just "lots of pledges, plenty of turns and no prestige," as it was put to us, pithily. Then one innovator on this list pointed us at Horner, and MIE. "Two guys out in the middle of Indiana, but they've been clever. The products are good, but don't screw up your workflow. They get it, they're the first to do so." MIE's slogan says it all: Finally! An EMR that won't revolutionize the way you practice medicine. Even if they don't get the apps just right, this is the first company we've found that clearly understands the real provider need. (Recall Christensen's first rule of innovation.) Horner cofounded MIE with Eric Jones in 1995. It is a regional health information organization (RHIO). He has stripped down its standard EMR, WebChart, to a $100-a-month version for single practitioners called, "m.i.EMR" (that's half the cost of eClinicalWorks). Their PHR, NoMoreClipboard.com, requires no explanation to patients. And Google recently selected MIE to provide the EHR system for its onsite employee health clinics. Google Health will plug in, but it says something that the "most innovative technology company in the world" opted for two guys from Indiana, instead of building for itself. 

"We’ve redefined how physicians and hospitals keep and share medical information, and thus helped transform how many area-doctors practice medicine.  We’re very proud of the role we’ve played in putting the latest medical-records technology to work in medical practices and hospitals."