"@Cerner and #Epic combined captured more than three-fourths of new large-hospital #EMR contracts" KLAS Report: http://t.co/0ENTkBPaGT
— KLAS (@KLASresearch) August 27, 2013
This tweet and associated messages are circling all around social media. Here’s the short description of the KLAS report:
HITECH has drastically changed the acute care EMR market. Previous industry mainstays like GE Healthcare and QuadraMed have effectively dropped out. McKesson has promoted their community hospital solution, Paragon, over their former flagship, Horizon. Allscripts, MEDITECH, and Siemens are all racing to recover from past stumbles and regain market share. Since meaningful use became a reality, Cerner and Epic have captured a large majority of new hospital contracts. However, there are still many decisions to be made in coming years and the remaining market is potentially more competitive than in years past.
For those of us following the industry, this isn’t really big news. Cerner and Epic have been battling for the big hospitals for quite a while. In fact, coming out of this year’s HIMSS I was more interested in the battle for small hospitals than large hospitals. Of course, we’ll see how hospital consolidation affects this as well.
What does seem clear and this report confirms is that Epic and Cerner all well positioned in the large hospital EMR market. I predict they’ll dominate until at least the end of meaningful use.
Interesting news on the proprietary EHR companies. Again KLAS, Gartner, etc. make no mention of the many hundreds of hospitals at the federal, state, and local level running the open source VistA system, or one of its derivatives, e.g. OpenVistA, WorldVistA, vxVistA, CHCS, etc. A good example of whatI’m talking about can be seen at http://www.openhealthnews.com/hotnews/vista-and-other-open-source-ehr-systems-new-york-new-england-states an article about VistA in New York & New England. It doesn’t take into account the latest installations in the state’s behavioral health facilities.
Peter,
You’re right about that. Although, I think they would have mentioned the commercial Vista systems if any of them individually had enough market share.