<p><strong>Iodine Software earned the highest industry client satisfaction ranking for informatics in the competitive mid-RCM market with top customer-rated utilization management, computer-assisted medical documentation, clinical coding and documentation integrity, and proven artificial intelligence tools.</strong></p>

Eight Major Industry Controversies Set to Dominate Discussions Among AHIMA Members and Industry Experts

Black Book's 2025 survey highlights trends and investment priorities in healthcare IT, based on insights from over 1,160 key figures in venture capital, private equity, and healthcare banking.

A recent industry technology user survey by Black Book reveals that over half of provider professionals and 80% of payer credentialing experts have identified key opportunities for improvement in their current provider data verification software. These findings highlight a strong momentum for upgrading to more reliable systems, underscoring the industry's commitment to enhancing patient care in critical areas and signaling a surge in the replacement market. Houston-based symplr is rated by clients as the top performing credentialing vendor.

Surgeons and surgical support staff from nine specialties rated ModMed's comprehensive software, including electronic health records, practice management, analytics, and interoperability, as best-in-breed.

Ninety-three percent of independent medical providers agree that specialist-specific EHRs position them best for value-based reimbursement, practice management and patient satisfaction.

Verisma achieved the highest client experience and customer satisfaction performance ratings, for the fourth consecutive year, excelling in both provider and payer IT categories

The healthcare cybersecurity vendor and advisory market is primed for huge expansion. Provider and payer IT professionals disclose strategic investments exceeding $140 billion through 2025.

Management representatives from 1,428 provider organizations are electing to deflect mounting solution delivery concerns to outsourcing vendors, according to 91% of respondents to the sweeping annual poll of nearly 16,000 hospital and physician organizations across 40 categories of managed services.

Black Book Research recognizes 22 sponsors of the Medical Group Management Association’s Leaders Conference, an inclusive community exploring the future of the physician practice industry, with content curated for those in management and executive level positions, and aspiring leaders meeting October 22-25 in Nashville, TN, to learn, grow, and network with like-minded leaders eager to transform healthcare.

Over 4,000 executives, professionals and consultants from healthcare providers, payers, vendors, advisory firms, investment banks and venture capital organizations assessed emerging solutions on their individual ability to contribute to a more integrated, patient-centric, productivity-enhancing HIT ecosystem and outperform competitors.

Black Book Research acknowledges the top-performing healthcare technology companies within various revenue cycle management and digital health market segments based on the industry's largest client survey of inpatient providers at the Becker's Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting in Chicago this week.

Black Book Research acknowledges the top-performing hospital technology companies within various clinical market segments based on the industry's largest client survey of inpatient providers at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society annual conference in Chicago this week.

The 2023 demand for robust physician practice management tools is fueled by the challenges surrounding increasing administrative burden, shrinking labor pools, and continued reimbursement pressures.

Three thousand healthcare solution users rated Nuance, Aquity Solutions, Redox, Optum360, Streamline, CorroHealth, 3M, PatientTrak, Docuware, AGFA, Verisma, Harmony Healthcare IT, and Revecore among the top-performing category vendors in the 2022 customer satisfaction surveys.

The sweeping annual survey gathered responses from 2,906 advisory firm clients representing fourteen hundred provider and payer engagements between 2019 and 2022.

Seventy-one electronic medical record and healthcare information technology vendors were graded on meeting buyer expectations, achieving ROI, solving country-specific connectivity issues, and accomplishing patient data improvement goals.

Tampa, Florida-based Black Book Market Research LLC makes the coveted Inc. 5000 list for the 5th consecutive year in the rankings due to extraordinary year-over-year revenue growth

Black Book™ Research recognizes AQuity Solutions as the best overall outsourced Document Capture solutions provider for their Virtual Scribe and Medical Transcription services.

Nuance Communications maintains the highest industry client satisfaction ranking for informatics in the competitive mid-RCM/CDI market with top customer-rated clinical coding, charge capture, medical speech recognition, document improvement and artificial intelligence tools.

Cerner is recognized as the top-rated inpatient EHR vendor for integrated hospitals and health delivery systems for the second consecutive year in ratings gathered exclusively from departmental clinical, financial, medical, and IT/operational staff members of hospitals, clinics and ancillaries providers. Cerner also was honored with the highest client experience scores in major Academic Medical Center health systems and affiliated providers in 2021, as in 2020.

With complex claims denials increased over 300 percent since 2015, nine in ten providers are turning the complicated complex claims processing to highly adept external vendors. Argos Health receives top client experience ratings in annual polling of chief financial officers and senior business officers in provider organizations as hospital margins continue to diminish.

Survey results from 1,382 physicians, clinicians, and administrative staff rate Surgical Information Systems (SIS) first among Ambulatory Surgical Center EHR vendors for sixth consecutive year. Surgical Information Systems achieved top ratings in nine of the 18 key performance indicators focused on vendors delivering perioperative IT to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals' outpatient facilities.

Surgical Information Systems Amkkai achieved top ratings in thirteen of the eighteen key performance indicators focused on vendors delivering perioperative IT to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals.

Allscripts outperforms competitors in the U.K., Australia and Canada on most all implementations done on time and budget while delivering on expectations; Epic Systems proves top vendor in Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Protenus also named the best privacy solution for large health systems and physician practices

Institutional investment in health data protection predicted to double by year-end, predicts Black Book survey

Cerner rated top EHR vendor across all four levels of hospital technology support services for third consecutive year.

Fully Integrated EHR and Practice Management IT tackle value-based care goals of Integrated Health Delivery Systems.

Waystar, the merged solutions of ZirMed and Navicure, is the highest customer-rated comprehensive medical RCM Software Technology

Black Book is ranked among the country's most dynamic businesses rising to #511 with 750% three-year growth

Black Book released a major update to their mobile applications, providing an easier way for clients to rate cybersecurity services

Secure texting is evolving into a collaboration platform confronting the complexities and protocols of healthcare enterprise communications

Starting today, a new European regulation came into effect causing some unprepared U.S. sites to block users and shut down activities.

Provider demand for consultants with value-based care expertise , physician engagement, analytics & culture change advisory climbs sharply.

Independent Industry Poll Shows Virginia-Based Cybersecurity Compliance Firm One of World's Cyber Leaders

Compliance firms rated by industry client satisfaction and loyalty scores via independent key performance indicators announced.