Say goodbye to geekware. From now on, youll farm out your tech needs-and pay a monthly bill. It was a techie version of a heart transplant. When the doctors of Talbert Medical Group in Costa Mesa, Calif., spun their practice out from a bankrupt physician-management company last year, Chief Information Officer Al Herak faced a daunting task: to build the computing underpinnings for the new company in just three months. It would normally take at least a year. If he couldn't pull it off by the time the bankrupt outfit closed its doors on Aug. 1, Talbert's 110 doctors would be helpless—unable to schedule appointments or track records, potentially forcing their patients to look elsewhere for care.
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