The Best Electronic Health Record Systems

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1 The Best Electronic Health Record Systems There are 500 or more electronic health record software options. That s a lot to choose from. The EHR software vendors make the case that their system is the best. Wouldn t it be nice to have a more objective view. We ve compiled a list of the top electronic health record software solutions based on data from multiple sources. Column 1: Recommended The Regional Extension Centers (s), established under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health / HITECH Act mandates, are here to help you, the primary care physicians (PCPs), public and critical-access hospitals, and community clinics with the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health record software. One of the ways the regional extension centers (s) assist health care providers, is to help with electronic health record system selection. Some of the s have even developed a list of preferred EHR software systems and vendors. TechTarget is a technical information site which provides a vehicle for researching products, developing strategy, and making cost-effective purchase decisions. Techtarget.com has a list of all the regional extension centers and includes the recommended EHR software vendors.column 1 is the number of regional extension centers recommending a particular EHR option. EHR software recommeded by the same number of s will have the same rank in column 2. ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com 1

2 Column 3: InformationWeek rank InformationWeek, a web magazine focused on the business of technology, published their own list of the 17 Leading EHR Vendors Column 3: AAFP / FPM User Survey The American Academy of Family Physicians, a medical specialty society that represents more than family physicians and medical students. AAFP publishes 3 journals: American Family Physician Family Practice Management (FPM) -- Annals of Family Medicine The AAFP / FPM column below is taken from The 2011 EHR User Satisfaction Survey (Responses from 2,719 Family Physicians) that can be found at Columns 4,5 & 6: A survey by Rankings, a division of the market research firm Brown-Wilson Group, ranks the top EMR vendors for 2011 based on key performance indicators including meaningful use. The Rankings can be found at These results are listed in alphabetical order for various numbers of eligible providers (EPs). Since no rank was indicated, the results for 1 provider, 2-5 providers and 6-25 providers are designated by a. ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com 2

3 Vendor Name recommended rank Information week rank AAFP / FPM User Survey 1 EP 2-5 EPs MEDENT eclinicalworks NextGen Healthcare Allscripts Allscripts Professional 9 Allscripts Enterprise 22 AllscriptsMyWay 23 e-mds Praxis 4 Greenway Medical Technologies ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com EPs Athenahealth GE Healthcare Sage McKesson SuccessEHS 8 8 Pulse Systems 6 9 Ingenix 5 10 Cerner Cerner Millennium PowerChart/PowerWorks MDLand International 4 11 Medical Informatics 3 12 Engineering Aprima Medical Software Inc Epic AmazingCharts.com Inc VistA CPRS 6 Point and Click EHR Bizmatic 2 13 IOS Health Systems Inc MedPlus Inc SOAPware Inc Centricity EMIR 12

4 Vendor Name recommended rank Information week rank AAFP / FPM User Survey Centricity Practice Solution 16 PrimeSuite 13 Practice Partner 14 CureMD Medical Communication Systems Practice Fusion 4 15 RPMS (IHS) 17 AHLTA 20 lntegreatehr 21 DocPatient Network 10 Meditech 15 Medsphere Systems 16 Medinformatix Horizon Ambulatory Care 27 Misys EMIR 28 Medinotes e ((formerly 29 Charting Plus) MPM 30 1 EP AbraxasMedical Solutions ABEL Medical Software 1 14 Acrendo Advanced Data Systems EPs 6-25 EPs AmazingCharts.com Business Computer Applications ChartLogic Connexin Software 1 14 CureMed MD Eclipsys GloStream 1 14 ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com 4

5 Vendor Name Health IT Services Group Healthland HealthPort Henry Schein Medical Systems recommended rank Information week rank AAFP / FPM User Survey 1 EP EPs 6-25 EPs Intivia 1 14 MDTablet Medappz Medflow Medical Software Technology Meditab MedNet System Meridian EMR NexTech Nuesoft OmniMD 1 14 Secure Infosys Sequel Systems StreamlineMD There is very little consistency in the rankings. In fact, a few of the information week recommended vendors were not recommended by any of the centers. And conversely, a number of the recommended vendors were a) only recommended once and b) not on the top 17 list. The following is an alphabetical list of the EHR software vendors receiving a vote from only one regional extension center and not mentioned in any of the other lists. ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com 5

6 Recommended by only one Regional Extension Center ASP.MD AZZL stone ClearPractice CompuGroup Medical Concordant (recently merged with Arcadia Solutions) Fletcher Allen Health Care Glenwood Systems LLC HealtheStateEHR HMS IGI Health isalus Healthcare MTBC NaviNet, Inc. NCG Medical Nortec Origin Healthcare Solutions Polaris Medical Management Inc Qualifacts Sevocity SimplifyMD ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com 6