The operating margins of US rural and critical access hospitals have radically decreased, leaving these challenged institutions in a financially precarious position to tackle the high tech demands currently faced by healthcare sector providers.

Evident, a member of the CPSI family of companies, is recognized again as the top-rated inpatient EHR vendor for hospitals under 100 beds. Evident's Centriq EHR also achieved the number two ranking over the field of 12 major electronic health record vendors.

Evident, a member of the CPSI family of companies is recognized as the top-rated inpatient EHR vendor for hospitals under 100 beds.

The acquisition wave of cloud-based community EHR is building momentum among small, rural, specialty and critical access hospitals.