Hospital EHR Vendors

Note: Within a hospital's EHR system, a primary EHR is a complete EHR or, if the hospital does not have a complete EHR, it is the EHR that meets the most Meaningful Use criteria. If a hospital has two or more complete EHRs, all of these EHRs are considered primary for the purpose of this report. A secondary EHR is any additional modular EHR used within the hospital's EHR system. *88 of the 139 Other Vendors only supply secondary EHRs to participating hospitals. Of the 51 Other Vendors that supply hospitals their primary EHR, 45 vendors supply a primary EHR to less than 10 total hospitals with 30 vendors supplying a primary EHR to only one hospital each.

Summary:

As of June 2014, 169 health IT vendors supply certified EHR products to 4,483 hospitals participating in the CMS EHR Incentive Programs.

MEDITECH, Epic Systems, and Cerner comprise 54% of the market share of primary certified EHRs for participating hospitals. Furthermore, the top 9 EHR vendors provide the primary EHR for 9 out of 10 hospitals. For the remaining 160 hospital EHR vendors, three-fourths of all hospitals reporting these vendors report the vendor's product as their secondary EHR.

Source:

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The most current dataset can be downloaded from the Health IT Dashboard's Datasets. The data file includes the most current vendor counts, as well as trend data beginning in April 2011.

Notes:

[1] Download the Technical Memo defining the terms in this Quick-Stat.

[2] This is an update of the initial vendor analysis completed in September 2013. The Quick-Stat can be accessed here.

Suggested Citation:

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. 'Electronic Health Record Vendors Reported by Hospitals Participating in the CMS EHR Incentive Programs, June 2014,' Health IT Quick-Stat #29. http://dashboard.healthit.gov/quickstats/pages/FIG-Vendors-of-EHRs-to-Participating-Hospitals-2014.php. August 2014.