Editor's Note: Bradley Hunter is the Research Director of Population Health at KLAS Research. As population health management goes mainstream, providers need robust, integrated software solutions to aggregate and analyze data, coordinate care, engage patients and clinicians, and provide full administrative and financial functionality. Providers report that vendors fall short of what they need, according to the recently published KLAS Research 2016 Population Health Management Perception Report.
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KLAS: Industry Executives Establish Interoperability Benchmark Model
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders met at the recent KLAS Cornerstone Summit last month to establish a new interoperability benchmark model and roadmap. The framework, agreed upon by industry representatives, is largely based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design, which focuses on the clinical end users’ experience related to the following: 1. Availability of needed information2. Ease of
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Epic, Impact Advisors Takes Overall Best in KLAS Awards
The 2015/2016 Best in KLAS report published today named Epic and Impact Advisors as the 'Overall Best in KLAS based on the feedback of their customers. Epic earned the ranking of number one Overall Software Suite for the sixth consecutive year and was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor including receiving an additional seven Best in KLAS awards in seven segments.
Health IT consulting firm Impact Advisors was ranked the number one Overall IT Services Firm for the fourth
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KLAS Report Finds Cerner, InterSystems Top Global EMR Vendors
A new KLAS report finds EMR vendors Cerner and InterSystems as the top-performing fully rated global multiregional vendors. Provider surveys and commentary show that Cerner performs very well in Europe and the Middle East, while InterSystems performs well in Asia/Oceania and the Middle East. The report also finds Allscripts had the highest score in the Europe market.
The report, "Global EMR Performance 2015" highlights vendor performance by region, shows that Epic performs best in
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KLAS Rates Deloitte Top Firm for ACO Strategy & Readiness
According to a recent KLAS report, Deloitte has been rated the top firm for ACO strategy development and readiness assessment. The report, ACO Advisory Services 2014: Navigating the Unchartered Territory of Accountable Care, evaluates seven firms based on interviews with 41 health care organizations working to implement value-based care models against three categories:
– strategy development
- readiness assessment
-implementation
Key Highlights
The KLAS report gave Deloitte
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KLAS: Phytel Takes Lead in Population Health Vendor Market Race
Population health management is one of the hottest emerging markets in the health IT space and vendors are quickly racing to carve out market share.70% of providers report that they see tangible benefits to patient care when using certain population health vendors, according to KLAS. But with so many PHM vendors and very little data, healthcare providers are having a hard time identifying who is the best vendor to help them maximize the benefits of their population health efforts.
To
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KLAS Report: 55% of Providers Planning to Buy Business Intelligence Tools Over 3 Yrs
According to a the recent KLAS report released this week, over half of healthcare providers are looking to purchase business intelligence tools over the net years signaling a tidal wave of growth as the industry search for solutions to help them combat a number of regulatory challenges such as ACO, HIE, and others.
The KLAS report, Business Intelligence Perception 2012: A Wave is Coming, was created from data collected between January and March representing 137 unique healthcare provider
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