Pointed commitment; Sharp HealthCare's Murphy has made IT advancement a 'personal obligation'.(Michael Murphy of Sharp Community Medical Group)

Modern Healthcare, June, 2007 by Wilson, Linda

Byline: Linda Wilson

While the 700-plus members of Sharp Community Medical Group, an independent practice association, spent nine months evaluating electronic medical record products, Michael Murphy, president and chief executive officer of Sharp HealthCare, didn't try to control the process.

Murphy made his preference known-a software product two other Sharp-affiliated medical practices had already selected. But he also made it clear that he would support any decision Sharp Community made. "He said to the group, `You have to choose because you have to live with it and you have to love it,' '' says Elizabeth Curtis, the medical group's CEO.

Murphy simply doesn't have "a cram-down-your-throat style,'' Curtis says. "When he tees up a topic...

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