athenahealth and AC Group
Sarah posted a comment on the HISTalk2 blog that I thought was interesting and worth sharing here: (Sarah - thanks for taking the time to comment!)
Inga-
You didn’t mention that athenahealth continues to dominate on the PMIS front taking top honors in the 6-25 and 26-100 categories – by a healthy margin.
While the EMR space is hot, more and more survey data is coming out that groups/practices are looking to replace their PMIS systems – especially when you look at legacy players like Misys or Emdeon/WebMD/Sage or whatever they are calling themselves now falling behind. There aren’t many companies that are coming to market with solid EMR and PIMIS offerings. In fact, I hear stories of groups implementing some of the “leading” EMRs and their PMs are so bad they have backed out of implementing – the market does not want to see this happen.
Vendors should really be paying more attention to this market as adoption rates are still very low in the ambulatory space. Addressing the business needs/operations of a practice gets them in a situation where making a clinical solution purchase more viable.
Anyway...my response:
Actually my posting was focused on the AC Group’s report, which actually makes no mention of athenahealth.
However, to your point, I agree that practices are and will continue to evaluate and upgrade older legacy systems. However, my opinion is that most of the time practices will continue selecting EMR first with the PM secondary. Why? The doctors are the one paying for the systems, they are the ones using the EMR, and they have to be happy with the choice.
Ultimately vendors that will be the winners are those that have solid PM AND EMR’s. Assuming athenahealth’s new EMR is as strong as their PM, I would expect to see them on reports like the AC Group’s in the future.
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