Essentials Briefs
HIMSS Analytics® has released its 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.
Market adoption of PM & EHR solutions has been trending upward since the initial study is nearing universal market adoption rates as indicated in the 2016 study. Given this rise, physician practices are positioned to address broader patient needs and continued regulations such as Meaningful Use and Medicare Access and CHIP Reorganization Act (MACRA).
Actionable insights:
- Access current PM & EHR Solution adoption rates and plans to purchase
- Understand vendor market share and mind share
- Get reported statistics for PM & EHR solutions across the entire US outpatient practice landscape
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The 2016 Population Health Essentials Brief offers insight from 104 hospital executives (C-Suite) and Vice Presidents and Directors of IT, clinical systems and clinical analytics on their current a
Voice of Customer (VOC) insight from over 230 respondents. 60% of respondents have a formalized EHR governance structure. 63% of formalized EHR governance structures involves a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary advisory board or committee
Unique Voice of Customer (VOC) from over 500 respondents. Year-over-year trending analysis of solution adoption. Despite efforts to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and overall cost of care reduction, less than 25% of respondents indicated a defined strategy around Accountable Care.
In addition to data from the HIMSS Analytics® Database and unique insight from healthcare IT executives across the country, this year's Study includes year-over-year comparisons with information from the 2014 U.S. Telemedicine Study. Highlights include:
- An uptick in adoption and increase in familiarity with telemedicine products and services (YOY)
- 70% of respondents reported two-way video/webcam usage, making it the most utilized telemedicine product/solution
- Detailed insight into respondents’ telemedicine/telehealth services five year outlook