Guest Article: What EHR buyers and health IT vendors can learn from the Nashville market

Zach Watson over at Technology Advice.com wrote a nice piece on EHR Trends in Nashville. I’m not a big fan of “trends” articles because trends aren’t that important, the implications of those trends and how to operationalize the implications are most important. I enjoyed Zach’s article so I asked him to tell us what those trends mean for EHR buyers and health IT vendors writ large. Here’s what Zach said: Our study of office-based physicians across the city of Nashville to gain insight into which EHR systems they were using, as well as how pleased they were with their systems revealed these insights: Adoption rate among certain specialties is significantly higher than available national averages Satisfaction rate among Nashville doctors is higher than benchmarks established by previous studies 16 percent of respondents have already switched EHRs Cost appears to be the priority with Nashville buyers, with Epic not cracking the market top 5 We chose to survey Nashville because of the city’s vibrant technology market, which includes an eclectic healthcare IT industry subset. Spotlighted in the Wall Street Journal, Nashville’s healthcare market features billion dollar organization Hospital Corporation of America, and has played host to over a billion dollars of investment capital in the last decade. For buyers of electronic medical records, several key points can be taken from the results of the study. For specialists, a mix of specia...
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