What You Should Know: Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies.Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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Midsize/Large Practice Management 2022: Which Vendors Stand Out in an Established Market?
What You Should Know: - Most practice management (PM) solutions have a long tenure in the market, yet not all vendors successfully meet practices’ needs—which include strong technology and a vendor who acts as a partner in customer success. Historically, KLAS has split PM data by midsize (11–75 physicians) and large practices (76+ physicians); however, independent practices (clinics not owned by a hospital/health system) and owned practices (clinics owned by a hospital/health system) also
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
What You Should Know: - A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most. - Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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eClinicalWorks Invests $100M in Microsoft Azure
What You Should Know: - McKinsey reports that cloud capabilities have the potential to generate a value of $100 billion to $170 billion for healthcare companies in 2030. The cloud enables healthcare companies to innovate, digitize and realize their strategic goals. - eClinicalWorks is currently investing over $100M in Microsoft Azure cloud services to accelerate innovations in digital healthcare. Technological Solutions For Improving Patient Care and Health
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LumaPay Launches for Patients to Pay Med Bills in An SMS Text
What You Should Know: - Luma Health today announced the launch of LumaPay, a new service for healthcare systems that provides patients a better and more transparent financial journey. - LumaPay™ lets patients pay bills from anywhere via text as the inaugural module of LumaFinancial, which provides better, simpler, and more transparent financial journeys Offering Patients an Easy to Pay Their Bills LumaPay enables healthcare organizations to offer patients an easy, text-first way to
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Analysis: US Ambulatory EHR Market Shake-Up at HIMSS 2022
During, and in the run-up to, HIMSS earlier this month there were several announcements from US EHR vendors that will shake up the US EHR market, particularly in the ambulatory segment. These included: - Allscripts’ announcement that it is to sell its Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal, dbMotion, STAR and HealthQuest business to Harris Computer Corp. - Meditech’s announcement that Expanse Ambulatory is to be made available to independent and physician-owned practices, alongside its
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KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know: - New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR
vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient data usable
for clinicians (data from outside the clinician's health system). - KLAS report examines adoption and usability among advanced
users of the main acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors. The national interoperability networks of Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have become some of the primary means by which patient records
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Allscripts & eClinicalWorks EMRs Not A Good Fit for Ambulatory Pediatric Practices, KLAS Report Finds
What You Should Know: - According to a recent KLAS report, Allscripts and
eClinicalWorks EMRs are not a good fit for pediatric practices, while Greenway
Intergy is improving. - PCC, athenahealth, and Office Practicum EMRs named best suited for pediatric offices. Despite their unique needs, many ambulatory pediatric
offices are expected to “make do” with generalized EMR templates and charting.
From growth charts, to well-child visits, to immunization tracking, to
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push. One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access. But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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