EHR Dominated by Three Companies

[Mark]

Currently there are about 200 vendors offering a variety of EHR (EMR)
software. Nine of these vendors (Meditech, Cerner, McKesson, Siemens,
CPSI, Epic, Healthcare Mgmt Systems, Healthland, Eclipsys) control
over 90% acute care hospital EHR systems. And the top three control
over 50% of instillations.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/lists?djoPage=product_details&djoPid=17210&djoTry=1272579305

I'm sure that the 21st VistA Community Meeting next week includes
plans for: Astronaut, OpenVistA, vxVistA, CareShare CMS, WorldVistA,
VistA+, FIS/GT.M to band together to counteract Meditech, Cerner and
McKesson's dominance.

Also, will Microsoft be a game changer when it releases the Amalga
Hospital Information System 2009 in the USA?

http://www.microsoft.com/amalga/products/microsoft-amalga-his/default.mspx

[I, Valdes]

If you will be attending this weeks VCM on Thursday part of my 11:30am
scheduled talk will be discussing exactly that challenge.

-- Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS
-- http://astronautvista.com

On Jun 5, 2:10 pm, Mark <m...@markflynn.biz> wrote:
> Currently there are about 200 vendors offering a variety of EHR (EMR)
> software.  Nine of these vendors (Meditech, Cerner, McKesson, Siemens,
> CPSI, Epic, Healthcare Mgmt Systems, Healthland, Eclipsys) control
> over 90% acute care hospital EHR systems.  And the top three control
> over 50% of instillations.
>

> http://www.modernhealthcare.com/section/lists?djoPage=product_details...

>
> I'm sure that the 21st VistA Community Meeting next week includes
> plans for: Astronaut, OpenVistA, vxVistA, CareShare CMS, WorldVistA,
> VistA+, FIS/GT.M to band together to counteract Meditech, Cerner and
> McKesson's dominance.
>
> Also, will Microsoft be a game changer when it releases the Amalga
> Hospital Information System 2009 in the USA?
>

> http://www.microsoft.com/amalga/products/microsoft-amalga-his/default...