Health Care Professional EHR Vendors

Note: Within a health care professional's EHR system, a primary EHR is a complete EHR or, if the professional does not have a complete EHR, it is the EHR that meets the most Meaningful Use criteria. If a professional 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 professional's EHR system. *77 of the 693 Other Vendors only supply secondary EHRs to participating health care professionals. Of the 616 Other Vendors that supply professionals their primary EHR, 444 vendors supply a primary EHR to less than 100 total professionals with 193 vendors supplying a primary EHR to fewer than ten total health care professionals.

Summary:

As of June 2014, 723 health IT vendors supply certified EHR products to 450,350 health care professionals participating in the CMS EHR Incentive Programs and/or ONC REC Program.

Epic Systems, Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, and GE Healthcare comprise over 50% of the market share of primary certified EHRs for participating professionals. Furthermore, the top 10 EHR vendors provide the primary EHR for 7 out of 10 professionals. Less than 5% of all professionals report a 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 and ONC's Regional Extension Centers Program.

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 Health Care Professionals Participating in the CMS EHR Incentive Programs and ONC Regional Extension Centers Program, June 2014,' Health IT Quick-Stat #30. http://dashboard.healthit.gov/quickstats/pages/FIG-Vendors-of-EHRs-to-Participating-Professionals-2014.php. August 2014.