Lineup of EHR Vendors; Senior Use of Patient Portals Notable

I haven't blogged about EHR sales and companies for a very long time so it's time to revisit this topic. A recent article in theDark Daily served this purpose (see:EHR Sales Reached $31.5 Billion in 2018 Despite Concerns over Usability, Interoperability, and Ties to Medical Errors) so I provide an excerpt from it below:Sales of electronic health record (EHR) systems and related hardware and services reached $31.5 billion in 2018....The Kalorama report, titled, “EMR 2019: The Market for Electronic Medical Records,” ranks EHR companies based on revenue rather than market penetration. Kansas City-based Cerner holds the No.1 spot on the list.That may be due to Cerner ’s securing one of the largest IT contracts in the federal government—a potential $10 billion deal over 10 years with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to replace the VA’s VistA medical record system. Kalorama ’s ranking includes familiar big EHR manufacturer names—Cerner and Epic—and includes a new name,Change Healthcare, which was born out of Change Healthcare Holding ’s merger with McKesson.However, smaller EHR vendors remain popular with many independent physicians.“We estimate that 40% of the market is not in the top 15 [in total revenue rankings],” said Bruce Carlson, Kalorama’s publisher....“There’s a lot of room.There are small vendors out there —Amazing Charts,e-MDs,Greenway,NextGen,Athena Health—that show up on a lot of physician surveys.” I was int...
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