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Physician Groups Undertake Organizational Mandate to Transform From Volume to Value & Not Sell Out to Hospitals, Black Book Reports Trend Shift
Provider demand for consultants with value-based care expertise , physician engagement, analytics & culture change advisory climbs sharply. Read More
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Black Book's Annual Cybersecurity Survey Reveals Healthcare Enterprises Are Not Maturing Fast Enough, Processes Continue Underfunded and Understaffed
The industry is deluged with new applications, challenging systems, new devices and innovative approaches to handling and sharing data. Read More
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Providers Stressed With Impact of High Deductible Plans, Black Book Identifies Demand Accelerating for Healthcare Payment Solutions
Creeping insurance costs and the popularity of high-deductible plans have created an inflamed uptick in patient payment responsibility. Health insurance deductibles increased 300% on average in the last ten years leaving consumers confused and two thirds of providers waiting over sixty days to collect payments. Read More
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ZirMed Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Software Solution for Large Hospitals and Medical Centers for Fifth Consecutive Year
Rated highest in client satisfaction and client loyalty for RCM Software Technology Tools by Hospital Financial Executives 200+ Beds by Black Book™ Read More
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Navicure Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Technology Solution for Small, Rural and Critical Access Hospitals
Rated highest in client satisfaction and client loyalty for RCM Software Technology Tools by Hospital Financial Executives in facilities under 100 Beds by Black Book™ Read More
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nThrive Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solution for Both Community Hospitals Under 200 Beds and Rural Hospitals Under 100 Beds
Rated highest in client satisfaction and client loyalty for RCM Outsourcing Services by Hospital Financial Executives in Community Hospitals and Small, Rural Facilities by Black Book™ Read More
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Conifer Health Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solution for Large Hospitals and Medical Centers, Fourth Consecutive Year
Rated highest in client satisfaction and client loyalty for RCM Outsourcing Services by Hospital Financial Executives in Large Hospitals over 200 Beds and Academic Medical Center campuses by Black Book™ Read More
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Optum360 Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Solution for Health Systems for Three Years in a Row in Software Technology and Outsourcing Services
Rated #1 Health System Vendor for RCM Outsourcing and Software Technology Tools by Hospital Financial Executives by Black Book™ Read More
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Physicians Wary of MACRA's Potential to Hasten the Demise of Independent Practices, per Black Book Survey
Two-thirds of independent practices now deliberately selling out to hospital systems and larger groups or closing down by 2019 as the resource-intensive requirements of MIPS, administrative burdens, and under-optimized technology may make the transition to value-based care too discouraging. Read More
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Large Physician Groups Eager to Implement Value-Based Reimbursement, Finds 2016 Black Book EHR Survey
Seventy-six percent of physician practices with more than 25 clinicians surveyed are keen to apply their EHR enhancements in functionality, service and value-based payment innovation as of Q2 2016. 1,788 multispecialty Clinics, IPAs and large group practice leaders narrowed down an elite group based on eighteen delving key performance indicators from a shrinking field of less than 50 qualified electronic health record systems. Read More
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Specialty-Driven EHRs Make a Comeback Reveals 2016 Black Book Ambulatory Survey
Eight in ten independent physician specialty practices have affirmed their confidence in specialty-distinctive electronic health record systems & robust multi-use EHRs with well-constructed specialty modules, as the more detailed aspects of third generation usability come into play and provider connectivity issues persist. Specialists look to end chronic replacements with flexible cloud-based & specialty-driven EHRs tailored to improve financial, workflow, clinical outcomes & satisfaction. Read More
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2016 Black Book Survey Announces Kareo, Inc as Leading Vendor for Integrated Health Records, Practice Management and Physician Billing Solutions, Fourth Consecutive Year
88% of the underserved, independent physician market sector is actively assessing technologies to thrive in an era of consumer-driven care and new reimbursement models particularly aiming to integrate physician practice management, billing services and the electronic health record (EHR) into a single vendor solution. Cost effective, cloud-based platforms with mobile applications are thrusting integrated solutions atop Black Book's product satisfaction rankings. Read More
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Postmortem of the Hospital Electronic Health Record Replacement Frenzy
Four years after the rush to replace inpatient EHR systems, Black Book crowd-surveyed 1204 hospital executives and 2133 user-level IT staff that withstood at least one broad EHR system switch to grasp if providers got what they bargained for. Read More
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Total EHR Stakeholder Satisfaction and Loyalty Leaps for Vendors Generating Solutions for Next Wave of Hospital IT Needs: Cloud, Patient Access, Mobile Optimization, Security, Revenue Cycle and Tech Support; Black Book 2016 Survey Results
As the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernibly ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt. Read More
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Payers Accelerate Private HIE Executions; Providers Judge HIE Replacements, Middleware and FHIR Options, 2016 Black Book Interoperability Survey
Black Book Research conducted its annual survey of hospital and health system executives, physician administrators and payer organization IT leaders to identify key interoperability trends and understand the challenges they face in their efforts to exchange patient information with other healthcare organizations. Read More
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Black Book Recognizes the Top Ranked Technology Suppliers at HIMSS16
Black Book Research acknowledges the top-performing healthcare technology companies within various market segments based on the industry's largest client survey of hospitals, physician practices, managed care organizations and ancillary providers at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society annual conference in Las Vegas this week. Read More
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Tech Support Quality Emerges as the Highest Compelling Differentiator in Continued EHR Loyalty, Utilization and Overall Satisfaction, 2016 Black Book Survey Results
Price and features are no longer the only driving factors of EHR replacement competition according to nearly 2,200 health IT user responding in a Q4 2015 Black Book survey. Vendors must also provide an overall greater technical support experience after the sales are made to keep customers happy and loyal, but many pass the duty on to outsourcers. Read More
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Allscripts, Cerner and CPSI Brands Merit the Most Devoted Hospital Clients, Reveals 2016 Black Book HIT Loyalty Index
As the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernibly ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt. Read More
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Providers to Adopt IT Outsourcing Solutions in 2016 as More Hospitals and Physician Practices Slide Deeper Into Financial Uncertainty, Black Book Survey
As the healthcare delivery industry deals with technology updates and implementations from ICD-10, EHR issues, physician alignment, big data, interoperability, value-based reimbursement reforms, decision support, revenue cycle, and patient marketplace shifts, hospital leaders embark on the major restructuring of hospital technology priorities and staffing alternatives for survival. Read More
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Upsurge in Emergency Department Information Technology Replacements, 72% of Hospitals Dissatisfied With Interoperability & Usability Finds Black Book
Black Book surveyed 738 emergency department administrative and nursing managers, and 1,104 ED physicians (over half are members of the American College of Emergency Physicians). 89% of ED leaders believe their hospitals rushed to purchase new EHRs and ED systems between 2010 and 2013 for meaningful use dollars, just to see productivity fall, liability rise and connectivity stall. Read More
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The Fast Track to the Hospital C-Suite, Annual Black Book Executive Survey Reveals Technology Deployment & Advanced Analytical Skills Are in High Demand
Different times or circumstances call for different leadership skills. As the healthcare industry implements radically innovative technologies, organizations are finding their incumbent senior management teams, regardless if CEOs, CFOs, etc. are lacking a skill set of successful EHR and population health deployments, analytics proficiency, and technology expertise outside of the CIO's office. Read More
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Black Book Announces 2015 Healthcare Financial Solutions Top Honors
Hospital viability is now vulnerably reliant on the success of a single organizational venture: financial system transformation. As the healthcare delivery industry deals with ICD-10, EHR issues, physician alignment, population health, interoperability, value-based reimbursement reforms, and decision support, CFOs embark on the major restructuring of hospital technology priorities for survival. Read More
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Outsourced Computer-Assisted Coding and Health Information Management Drive Critical Cost Savings, Market Expected to Double Again in 2016, Black Book Survey Reveals Top Vendors
Coding, transcription, health records management and clinical documentation managed services contracting is on a meteoric rise. 69% of hospitals now outsourcing CDI, audit, review and programming, up from 25% just 12 months ago. Read More
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$9.7B Outsourced Revenue Cycle Management Market Grows at CAGR of 26.5%, Black Book Tracks Trend Through 2018
Legacy IT applications with outdate technology platforms that lack the advanced functionality needed to address new reimbursement models reached a tipping point with healthcare service providers. Complex processes in billing and collections are resulting in gaps and inefficiencies leading to revenue losses. Outsourcing RCM is resolving cash leakages as executives evaluate their technology options. Read More
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Evolving Primary Care Medicine Environment Stimulates Upturns in Technology Use, Productivity and Satisfaction, Reveals Black Book
3,016 primary care practices, including family and general practice physicians, pediatricians, geriatricians and internal medicine doctors, all crowdsourced EHR users, narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across eighteen probing key performance indicators from a field of over 400 qualified healthcare software firms. Read More
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Greenway Earns Top Client Satisfaction Spot in 2015 Top Black Book Electronic Health Records Survey for Primary Care
Three thousand surveyed EHR users narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across probing key performance indicators, from a crowded field of over 400 primary care-focused software products. Pediatricians, generalists and family practices identify the EHR products that deliver on early adoption successes: implementation, productivity, outcomes, MU achievement, analytics and connectivity. Read More
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Large Physician Groups Measurably More Satisfied With EHR Usability, Interoperability and Productivity Improvements Than Small Practices, Finds 2015 Black Book Survey
Nearly two thirds of physician practices with more than 25 clinicians surveyed commended the enhancements in functionality, service and innovation with top ranked vendors in Q2 2015. Multispecialty Clinics, IPAs and large group practices narrowed down an elite group of electronic health record systems across eighteen probing key performance indicators from a field of over 400 qualified EHRs. Read More
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2015 Top Black Book Electronic Health Records Systems Announced for Gastroenterology (GI) Practices
Surveyed electronic health record users narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across probing key performance indicators from a field of over 103 GI-specific and general EHR software firms. Read More
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2015 Top Black Book Electronic Health Records Systems Announced for Otolaryngology (ENT) Practices
Surveyed electronic health record users narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across probing key performance indicators from a field of over 94 ENT-specific and general EHR software firms. Read More
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2015 Top Black Book Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems Announced for Orthopedic Surgery Practices
Surveyed EHR users narrowed down an elite group of systems vendors across probing key performance indicators from a crowded field of over 146 orthopedics specialty software firms. Read More
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