I began my Street career on a crisp autumn day as a sell-side stock analyst (well, I was an associate analyst first) covering healthcare IT companies, most of which seem to have been acquired by HBO & Co. (now, of course, known as McKesson). Spending about a decade as a research analyst, I covered the stocks of around 25 companies such as Cerner, HBO, Sunquest, and Eclipsys. As the dot-com/e-health era arose, I covered those stocks as well, helping to take companies like Allscripts, Healthstream and others public.
