Black Book Announces Top EHR Vendors
By Katie Wike, contributing writer
Black Book announces top EHR Vendors based on a survey of more than 22,000 providers
More than 22,000 providers participated in Black Book Rankings poll of EHR client experience, a study that took place over five months, according to Healthcare IT News. An additional 6,000 study participants that have not yet fully implemented enterprise electronic health records answered questions on budgeting, adoption plans, factors driving EHR decisions, and vendor awareness.
According to iHealth Beat, the rankings are based on client experience scores for:
- accountable care organizations' data needs
- administrative and documentation functionalities
- certification-required EHR functionalities
- clinical workflow functionalities
- electronic prescribing modules
- health information exchange enterprises
“Hospital leaders are seeking empirical data from EHR users to make informed vendor choices, particularly those switching systems or replacing home grown EHRs. Viable EHR vendors are actively supporting their clients past implementation, and demonstrating best-of-breed technologies through innovative solutions," said Doug Brown, managing partner of Black Book Rankings in a press release.
“For 2014, Black Book Rankings announce the top ranked customer-experience ranked inpatient EHR vendor for hospitals under 100 beds including rural and critical access facilities was Mobile, AL-based CPSI. This markets the fourth consecutive year CPSI has ranked as top vendor in this category.
“Among other inpatient EHR vendors also receiving top scores in multiple key performance areas of hospital systems include: Allscripts, Cerner, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, HCS EMR, Healthcare Management Systems, Healthland, McKesson, Meditech, NextGen, Quadramed, Prognosis, RazorInsights, and Siemens Medical across the survey actute care subgroups.”