Meaningful Use Attestations & EHR Vendor trends

I found this really interesting look at the CMS ( Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ) report on MU attestations by Eligible Providers (EPs) released in April of 2013. Dr Robert Rowley (who helped found Practice Fusion - another cloud based EHR ) took the government's information & analyzed it.

The most remarkable thing I found was that 80% of the attestations done in 2011 & 2012 were done using the top 24 EHRs! This is really astounding & helps to highlight what a lot of analysts have been saying: the EHR market is going to consolidate. A large number of EHR systems that were ONC certified for MU1, had no EPs attest for MU1. These companies , along with many others, will not be viable in the near future.

Note that Epic is the largest Ambulatory Vendor but they do not sell to individual practices. Practices who use Epic are usually Hospital owned or closely affiliated.

Here is one interesting chart but the whole Blog is linked & worth a look.

http://robertrowleymd.com/2013/04/04/trends-in-ehr-vendor-strength/

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