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HIMSS Analytics regularly publishes Essentials Briefs on a variety of healthcare technology areas and market segments. Vendors can purchase the Essentials Briefs using the links below. Providers can receive the Essentials Briefs for free by emailing us from a qualified email address.
HIMSS Analytics Essentials Brief: 2016 Telemedicine Study
Published April 27, 2016

Building upon the critical insight provided in 2015, HIMSS Analytics releases the 2016 Telemedicine Study, an Essentials Brief that highlights three years’ worth of market data focused on the adoption of telemedicine technology across the U.S. hospital market.

Purchase this study to:

  •  Access current telemedicine solution adoption rates and plans to purchase
  • Understand vendor market share and mind share
  • Get snapshot statistics for telemedicine solutions across the entire US hospital landscape

Highlights of the 2016 study include:

  • The patient portal, or application-focused patient engagement, continues to be a strong program adopted by roughly 50 percent of study respondents in 2015 and 2016.
  • Physician to physician communication was the most common use of two-way video/webcam by roughly 43 percent of respondents who have adopted that technology. 
  • Plans to invest in telemedicine technology increased for academic medical centers/urban hospital or health systems and critical access/rural hospital or health system year over year

Get further insight on this study from the HIMSS Analytics Blog

MORE RESEARCH REPORTS

Essentials Briefs go beyond quantitative research and include information from the HIMSS Analytics® Database to provide an unmatched level of marketplace understanding.

The seventh annual Ambulatory Practice Management (PM) & Electronic Health Record (EHR) Study includes year-over-year trending analysis dating back to 2009, as well as an in-depth look at the current market. 

Highlights include:

  • Unique Voice of Customer (VOC) from over 700 respondents
  • Over 80 percent of the ambulatory market has adopted EHR technology
  • Roughly 8 percent of study respondents plan to replace their current ambulatory solution

View our Essentials Briefs Research Agenda with salient topics across healthcare

Access the 2016 Outpatient PM & EHR Solutions Essentials Brief, a study on the U.S. Outpatient Practice Management (PM) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions market. This is the 8th iteration of the study and provides insight into solution adoption and purchase intentions from hospital-owned and free-standing physician practices in the U.S. outpatient market.