Category: Medicine and Healthcare


The healthcare cybersecurity vendor and advisory market is primed for huge expansion. Provider and payer IT professionals disclose strategic investments exceeding $140 billion through 2025.

Black Book Research recognizes 22 sponsors of the Medical Group Management Association’s Leaders Conference, an inclusive community exploring the future of the physician practice industry, with content curated for those in management and executive level positions, and aspiring leaders meeting October 22-25 in Nashville, TN, to learn, grow, and network with like-minded leaders eager to transform healthcare.

Nuance Communications maintains the highest industry client satisfaction ranking for informatics in the competitive mid-RCM market with top customer-rated speech recognition, computer-assisted medical documentation, clinical coding and revenue integrity, and artificial intelligence tools.

Four thousand healthcare solution users rated user experience among the top-performing category vendors in the 22 HIM-focused customer satisfaction surveys.


Over 5,000 materials management and purchasing professionals were represented in the sweeping series of supply chain IT user polls, as formidable challenges are forcing providers to advance their technologies to maintain solvency.









Black Book Research acknowledges the top-performing hospital technology companies within various clinical market segments based on the industry's largest client survey of inpatient providers at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society annual conference in Chicago this week.


The 2023 demand for robust physician practice management tools is fueled by the challenges surrounding increasing administrative burden, shrinking labor pools, and continued reimbursement pressures.


Surgeons and surgical support staff from nine specialties rated ModMed's comprehensive software, including electronic health records, practice management, analytics, and interoperability, as best-in-breed.


The healthcare provider and hospital outsourcing market size is projected to reach USD 750 billion by 2028 and expand at a CAGR of 11.5% between now and 2026.


Three thousand healthcare solution users rated Nuance, Aquity Solutions, Redox, Optum360, Streamline, CorroHealth, 3M, PatientTrak, Docuware, AGFA, Verisma, Harmony Healthcare IT, and Revecore among the top-performing category vendors in the 2022 customer satisfaction surveys.



Over 900 hospitals and inpatient organizations and 4,000 physician practices were represented in the sweeping Q1-Q2 2022 series of financial management IT user polls, as daunting challenges are forcing providers to advance their technologies to maintain solvency.

Black Book Research estimates the North American market for post-acute software and IT services market in Q2 2022 has reached $3.0 Billion and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 17% during 2022-2032.

One thousand seven hundred and forty-two EHR users in community hospitals weigh the key performance indicators of trust, accountability, transparency, and ethics as most important in 2022's unifying, cloud-based EHR vendor selections.

This is the fourth consecutive year Modernizing Medicine has received the highest satisfaction and loyalty industry award from surgical specialist practices nationally.

Seventy-six percent of independent specialists agree that specialist-specific EHRs will position them best for value-based reimbursement




The annual Black Book Research crowdsourced population health management solutions poll of 2,160 PHM applications and managed services clients included administrative, financial, medical, analytics, quality, and IT system users from 494 hospitals and IDNs, 775 physician practices, 83 ambulatory organizations: and 46 payers and employer groups.




In the post-pandemic recovery, over 90 percent of surveyed RCM clients revere vendor trust, accountability, transparency and ethics as the most essential criteria for extending software and managed services relationships, more than scalability, value-adds or breadth of offerings, causing a shift in this years' top ratings


The hospital outsourcing market size is projected to reach USD 702 billion by 2027 and expected to expand at a CAGR of 11.5 % from 2022 to 2026.


Nuance Communications maintains the highest industry client satisfaction ranking for informatics in the competitive mid-RCM/CDI market with top customer-rated clinical coding, charge capture, medical speech recognition, document improvement and artificial intelligence tools.


Nearly 3,000 healthcare solution users rated Nuance, Aquity Solutions, Infor, Guidehouse, Hyland, CorroHealth, Verato and Conifer Health among the top-performing category vendors in the 2021 customer satisfaction surveys.

Evident, a member of the CPSI family of companies, is recognized again as the top-rated inpatient EHR vendor for hospitals under 100 beds. Evident's Centriq EHR also achieved the number two ranking over the field of 12 major electronic health record vendors.



Eight hundred forty hospitals and inpatient organizations and fifteen hundred fifteen physician practices were represented in the sweeping Q1-Q2 2021 series of financial management IT user polls, as daunting challenges are forcing providers to advance their technologies to maintain solvency.