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Duplicate and fragmented shared patient records are progressively putting patient safety at risk and afflict provider bottom lines.
Healthcare IT research firm's sweeping worldwide study reveals rapidly advancing opportunities for US-based and local tech vendors
Black Book's 2025 survey highlights trends and investment priorities in healthcare IT, based on insights from over 1,160 key figures in venture capital, private equity, and healthcare banking.
A recent industry technology user survey by Black Book reveals that over half of provider professionals and 80% of payer credentialing experts have identified key opportunities for improvement in their current provider data verification software. These findings highlight a strong momentum for upgrading to more reliable systems, underscoring the industry's commitment to enhancing patient care in critical areas and signaling a surge in the replacement market. Houston-based symplr is rated by clients as the top performing credentialing vendor.
Managed services customers validated highest client satisfaction ratings on R1 RCM, a major player in the medical financial services industry that is working with 95 of the top 100 U.S. health systems and managing over $55 billion in net patient revenue.
This week's HFMA Annual Meeting's Exhibit Hall features 24 of the top-performing finance and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, as identified by the latest Black Book Research user survey. Attendees can expect to see the standout solutions that have been recognized for their exceptional performance, ROI, client experience, loyalty, and satisfaction.
More Than 5,000 Health Plan IT Clients Evaluate 400 Software Firms, Advisors, and Service Vendors Across 35 Operational Areas in 15th Annual Payer Survey on Customer Experience and User Satisfaction
Physician Claims Clients Endorse Four Companies That Are Excelling at Best Handling the New Customer Influx: Veradigm, Waystar, Experian, and Availity
Despite 2023 warnings to strengthen cybersecurity defenses, ransomware attacks persist, resulting in significant financial losses, disruptions to operations, and jeopardizing patient care.
Black Book surveyed nearly 5,000 healthcare providers in a sweeping study of the evolving revenue cycle management IT sector. EnableComp rated highest satisfaction among clients besting competitors in 12 of 18 key performance indicators.
Significant efforts lie ahead, as the Black Book survey reveals that only 37% of medical practice respondents are receiving value-based care (VBC) payments from upside-risk arrangements and shared savings, while 12% receive payments from full risk. The remaining halfcontinue to rely on Fee-For-Service payments.
The operating margins of US rural and critical access hospitals have radically decreased, leaving these challenged institutions in a financially precarious position to tackle the high tech demands currently faced by healthcare sector providers.
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.
Surveyed providers endorse NextGen Healthcare PM Solutions to meet the challenges surrounding increasing administrative burden, shrinking labor pools, telehealth, and continued reimbursement pressures.
Ninety-three percent of independent medical providers agree that specialist-specific EHRs position them best for value-based reimbursement, practice management and patient satisfaction.
In total, 109 electronic medical record and healthcare information technology vendors were graded on meeting buyer expectations, achieving ROI, solving country-specific connectivity issues and accomplishing patient data improvement goals.
Verisma achieved the highest client experience and customer satisfaction performance ratings, for the fourth consecutive year, excelling in both provider and payer IT categories
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.
Management representatives from 1,428 provider organizations are electing to deflect mounting solution delivery concerns to outsourcing vendors, according to 91% of respondents to the sweeping annual poll of nearly 16,000 hospital and physician organizations across 40 categories of managed services.
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 4,000 executives, professionals and consultants from healthcare providers, payers, vendors, advisory firms, investment banks and venture capital organizations assessed emerging solutions on their individual ability to contribute to a more integrated, patient-centric, productivity-enhancing HIT ecosystem and outperform competitors.
Black Book Research acknowledges the top-performing healthcare technology companies within various revenue cycle management and digital health market segments based on the industry's largest client survey of inpatient providers at the Becker's Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting in Chicago this week.
The market research and data platform company also ranked in the top 15 of the list's healthcare industry services firms for three-year growth.
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 recognizes the top-performing tech and managed services firms based on the industry's largest client survey of five thousand supply chain professionals at the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management's annual conference in Orlando.
