Category: Healthcare and Medical Informatics

2025 American Medical Informatics Association Summit "Uniting Data-Driven Informatics" Set for March 10-13 in Pittsburgh

Black Book Research Introduces 18 AI-Focused KPIs to Deeply Evaluate Machine Learning, Data Integration, and Real-World Impact in Population Health and Value-Based Care

Localized Innovation Reshaping Digital Healthcare: Insights from Black Book's 2025 EHR Market Survey Covering Two-Thirds of Global Vendors

Comprehensive Gratis Report Featuring Profiles and Client Engagement Ratings for 260 HIT Consulting and Advisory Firms

Correction: This release has been updated to reflect accurate specialty-focused EHR top ratings. NextGen Healthcare has achieved five specialty-focused EHR top ratings, including Cardiovascular Practices, while ModMed has achieved ten specialty-focused EHR top ratings, including Podiatry, in 2025. The previous release incorrectly listed NextGen Healthcare with four and ModMed with nine top ratings.
Top EHR Vendors Shine in Multiple Specialties: ModMed, NextGen Healthcare, Netsmart, ClinicMind, Epic, and RXNT Lead the Pack
Strategic Initiatives and Innovative Policies in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman Drive New Opportunities for Technology Developers
Black Book unveils critical insights into the global EHR landscape, spotlighting 121 local and regional vendors across 53 countries as they compete with multinational health IT giants. This comprehensive analysis delves into emerging trends, vendor performance, and the shifting dynamics of the highly competitive health IT market, offering a detailed overview of the evolving global healthcare technology ecosystem

AHIMA 2024, taking place this week in Salt Lake City, brings together industry leaders to showcase groundbreaking AI innovations reshaping health information management (HIM). The event highlights advancements in coding, data analytics, and patient care, with vendors unveiling AI-powered solutions to streamline workflows, enhance accuracy, and improve healthcare outcomes. Additionally, Black Book announces the top-rated AHIMA-sponsoring vendors for 2024, based on highest customer experience.

Top medical coding and HIM solutions, recognized by clients and system users among the best in the industry, will showcase their innovations at the AHIMA Conference in Salt Lake City, October 27-29

Eight Major Industry Controversies Set to Dominate Discussions Among AHIMA Members and Industry Experts


Surveyed providers endorse NextGen Healthcare PM Solutions to meet the challenges surrounding increasing administrative burden, shrinking labor pools, telehealth, and continued reimbursement pressures.

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.


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.


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.


The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and utilize the most advanced health information technology and electronic exchange of health information, has both providers and payers anticipating major ONC population health initiatives and government-led motivations ahead.

Nuance maintains the highest industry client satisfaction ranking for informatics in the evolving enterprise-wide software market for front, middle and end coding & clinical document processes.
Despite the years of frustration noted in the annual Black Book EHR user surveys, ninety-seven percent of nurse respondents said they would not want to go back to using paper records.


100% of post-acute executives surveyed argue that EHRs and interoperability with acute care providers and physicians would radically improve their ability to thrive under VBC.

Growth in clinical documentation market is expected to reach US$5.2B by 2022 from $3.2B at fiscal year-end 2018 with a 10.2% CAGR

Rated highest in client satisfaction for Informatics and Clinical Documentation Improvement Software in the evolving coding software market preparing for Value-Based Care.




In 2015, CIOs held the balance of power over IT purchasing decisions, controlling 71%. But this year that figure fell to just 8%.

Fully Integrated EHR and Practice Management IT tackle value-based care goals of Integrated Health Delivery Systems.

Waystar, the merged solutions of ZirMed and Navicure, is the highest customer-rated comprehensive medical RCM Software Technology

Nuance rated highest in customer satisfaction and loyalty for coding, CDI, CAC and transcription software tools by hospitals and physicians.


CDI is the key to better ICD-10 coding and reimbursement accuracy, but it's also vital for preparing organizations for population health.








Black Book released a major update to their mobile application, providing an easier way for clients to rate and review software and services

Black Book surveyed 902 emergency department administrative and nursing managers, and 611 physicians of which over half are members of ACEP.

Secure texting is evolving into a collaboration platform confronting the complexities and protocols of healthcare enterprise communications

Cybersecurity firms rated by industry client satisfaction and loyalty scores via independent key performance indicators announced.