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NewsEpic leads 2010 'Best in KLAS' honorees
Epic Systems is the top-ranked vendor in the 2010 "Best in KLAS" report from industry analyst KLAS Enterprises. Epic, the closely held, Verona, Wis.-based EMR vendor with a knack for winning Read more...
Community hospitals increasingly look to large EMR vendors
Smaller hospitals increasingly are looking to the big clinical information systems vendors for their EMR and other point-of-care IT needs, mainly because they believe the vendors that have Read more...
KLAS breaks down ambulatory EMR performance by physician specialty
Health IT research firm KLAS Enterprises has delved into the murky and confusing world of ambulatory EMRs for specialty practices, producing its first-ever report that looks at EMR performance by Read more...
Epic sales soaring, particularly in home state of Wisconsin
Epic Systems "is winning three to four times more [contracts] than anyone else," KLAS Enterprises Chairman Kent Gale tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And the Verona, Wis.-based vendor is doing Read more...
ARRA fueled doubling of 2009 EMR sales
Fueled by the prospect of federal incentive payments courtesy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, sales of acute-care EMRs to large hospitals nearly doubled in 2009, according to health IT Read more...
Cost of EMR ownership often much higher than expected
Surprise, surprise! Even as buyers have grown more savvy and able to find a cost-effective EMR, the true cost of ownership of an acute-care EMR often is far higher than expected, KLAS Enterprises Read more...
States, providers still sorting out myriad HIE issues
Anyone involved in health information exchange--and that should be just about everyone working with an EMR, if Uncle Sam has anything to say about it--would do well to heed the advice of Jason Hess, Read more...
KLAS report: Practices increasingly consider lesser-known EMR vendors
While Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems and eClinicalWorks remain the most popular EMR vendors among physician practices, even big medical groups are Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Picis exec challenges KLAS report on anesthesia systems
Picis chief physician executive Dr. Carlos Nunez takes exception with a recent KLAS report on anesthesia information management systems, in which KLAS said that many current products, including the Read more...
Anesthesiology EMR adoption tiny, but growing fast
Think EMR adoption in general is low? And wouldn't it make sense to have clinical systems in high-risk departments like anesthesia, where an error can lead to a hefty malpractice payout? Well, Read more...
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