Largest Hospital and Ambulatory Care EHR Vendors

The Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology (ONC) tracks the vendors used by providers that participate in its electronic health record (EHR) incentive program. ONC has released a list of all certified health IT vendors used by providers along with how many hospitals and ambulatory care professionals are using each vendor’s technology.

There were 175 certified health IT vendors supplying technology to 4,474 non-federal acute care participating hospitals as of June 2016. These ten vendors, ranked by the number of hospitals with certified EHR technology, were the largest suppliers:

1. Cerner Corporation (1,029 hospitals)
2. MEDITECH (953)
3. Epic Systems Corporation (869)
4. Evident (636)
5. McKesson (462)
6. MEDHOST (359)
7. Allscripts  (235)
8. Sunquest Information Systems (200)
9. FairWarning Technologies (172)
10. Iatric Systems (161)

On the ambulatory care side, 632 vendors supplied certified health IT to 337,432 ambulatory primary care physicians, medical and surgical specialists, podiatrists, optometrists, dentists, and chiropractors also participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. These were the top ambulatory care EHR vendors based on the number of participating health care professionals using each vendor’s technology:

1. Epic Systems Corporation (83,673 professionals)
2. Allscripts (33,127)
3. eClinical Works LLC (25,524)
4. Next Gen Healthcare (19,676)
5. GE Healthcare (17,704)
6. Cerner Corporation (15,104)
7. athenahealth Inc (14,570)
8. Greenway Health LLC (12,407)
9. Practice Fusion (8,523)
10. McKesson (7,347)

Sources:

Hospital EHR vendors: certified health IT vendors and editions reported by hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology, June 2016. http://dashboard.healthit.gov/quickstats/pages/FIG-Vendors-of-EHRs-to-Participating-Hospitals.php

Health care professional EHR vendors: certified health IT vendors and editions reported by ambulatory health care professionals participating in the Medicare EHR incentive program. Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology, June 2016. http://dashboard.healthit.gov/quickstats/pages/FIG-Vendors-of-EHRs-to-Participating-Professionals.php

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