HMS is a healthcare IT company that was founded in 1984 and has grown significantly over time through organic growth and acquisitions. It provides electronic health record and clinical systems, as well as financial and billing solutions for hospitals. In recent years, HMS acquired MedHost, a leading emergency department vendor, and has expanded into ambulatory care software. The document discusses HMS's history, product portfolio evolution, ownership changes, and market positioning among other small hospital IT vendors.
HMS is a healthcare IT company that was founded in 1984 and has grown significantly over time. It provides a suite of clinical, financial and reporting software solutions primarily targeted at small hospitals. The document discusses HMS's history, growth through acquisition of other companies like MedHost, product expansion, client selection process and pricing information for their solutions. It concludes by thanking sources who provided background on HMS and highlighting next week's topic will be about the company Keane.
This document summarizes four electronic health record (EHR) vendors that target small hospitals: CPSI, Medhost, Healthland, and NextGen. It provides an overview of each vendor's origins, acquisitions, client base, product lines, and recent revenue trends. While small in size, the market for small hospitals under 100 beds represents over 2,300 facilities in the United States. The document analyzes how each vendor has positioned themselves to serve this sizable small hospital market.
This document summarizes the early history of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) from 1969-1981:
- SMS was founded in 1969 and grew from a small startup with 24 employees to become the largest healthcare IT vendor, developing early database and billing systems like UNIFILE to automate hospitals.
- In the early days, SMS employees worked long hours to develop the systems and support clients with little experience. Many early clients and implementations faced challenges common to new software.
- SMS developed innovative technologies that helped automate hospitals and deal with issues like the Year 2000 problem, but growth also caused performance issues that were later addressed.
- The story highlights both the challenges and rewards of working with innovative young companies versus established large vendors
The document outlines a proposed school management system that would automate key functions like student attendance tracking, timetable generation, and communication between students, teachers, and parents. It would allow remote access and help reduce issues around manual work, time waste, and lack of communication. The system requirements, user roles, use cases, interface designs, database structures, and benefits are all described at a high level. Security measures would also help ensure the right users have access to only relevant data.
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The document discusses project planning for a hostel management system. It covers project definitions and lifecycles, including the software development lifecycle of requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation. It also discusses functional details, UML design, and architecture of the hostel management system. Finally, it covers database and code optimization techniques.
The document describes a proposed Hostel Management System (HMS) that would automate the manual processes currently used to manage a hostel. The key modules of the HMS would include application submission, admission, room allocation/shuffling, outpass management, fines/concessions, vacation requests, complaints, and viewing student details. The system is aimed at reducing costs, improving efficiency, and making the hostel management processes more user-friendly, interactive and easily accessible compared to the existing manual system.
This document describes a proposed hostel management system. The existing manual system is time-consuming and prone to errors. The new computerized system will allow for easy access and updating of student data. It will automatically calculate bills and issue notifications. The system will have administrative functions to manage student, room, and fee details. It will generate reports. Diagrams are included that depict the system requirements, design, components, and deployment.
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The document describes a proposed hostel management system for Superior University. It includes sections on project planning, requirements specification, system design, and testing. The system aims to manage hostel activities more efficiently by automating manual processes. It will allow administrators to allot rooms to students, track fee payments, and edit student records. Users can view notices and hostel divisions. The system will follow a waterfall development model and use SQL database, with security and performance testing planned.
HMS is a healthcare IT company that was founded in 1984 and has grown significantly over time. It provides a suite of clinical, financial and reporting software solutions primarily targeted at small hospitals. The document discusses HMS's history, growth through acquisition of other companies like MedHost, product expansion, client selection process and pricing information for their solutions. It concludes by thanking sources who provided background on HMS and highlighting next week's topic will be about the company Keane.
This document summarizes four electronic health record (EHR) vendors that target small hospitals: CPSI, Medhost, Healthland, and NextGen. It provides an overview of each vendor's origins, acquisitions, client base, product lines, and recent revenue trends. While small in size, the market for small hospitals under 100 beds represents over 2,300 facilities in the United States. The document analyzes how each vendor has positioned themselves to serve this sizable small hospital market.
This document summarizes the early history of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) from 1969-1981:
- SMS was founded in 1969 and grew from a small startup with 24 employees to become the largest healthcare IT vendor, developing early database and billing systems like UNIFILE to automate hospitals.
- In the early days, SMS employees worked long hours to develop the systems and support clients with little experience. Many early clients and implementations faced challenges common to new software.
- SMS developed innovative technologies that helped automate hospitals and deal with issues like the Year 2000 problem, but growth also caused performance issues that were later addressed.
- The story highlights both the challenges and rewards of working with innovative young companies versus established large vendors
The document outlines a proposed school management system that would automate key functions like student attendance tracking, timetable generation, and communication between students, teachers, and parents. It would allow remote access and help reduce issues around manual work, time waste, and lack of communication. The system requirements, user roles, use cases, interface designs, database structures, and benefits are all described at a high level. Security measures would also help ensure the right users have access to only relevant data.
Software development planning and essentialsRajesh P
The document discusses project planning for a hostel management system. It covers project definitions and lifecycles, including the software development lifecycle of requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation. It also discusses functional details, UML design, and architecture of the hostel management system. Finally, it covers database and code optimization techniques.
The document describes a proposed Hostel Management System (HMS) that would automate the manual processes currently used to manage a hostel. The key modules of the HMS would include application submission, admission, room allocation/shuffling, outpass management, fines/concessions, vacation requests, complaints, and viewing student details. The system is aimed at reducing costs, improving efficiency, and making the hostel management processes more user-friendly, interactive and easily accessible compared to the existing manual system.
This document describes a proposed hostel management system. The existing manual system is time-consuming and prone to errors. The new computerized system will allow for easy access and updating of student data. It will automatically calculate bills and issue notifications. The system will have administrative functions to manage student, room, and fee details. It will generate reports. Diagrams are included that depict the system requirements, design, components, and deployment.
Hostel management system Software Engineering SRSFahad Chishti
The document describes a proposed hostel management system for Superior University. It includes sections on project planning, requirements specification, system design, and testing. The system aims to manage hostel activities more efficiently by automating manual processes. It will allow administrators to allot rooms to students, track fee payments, and edit student records. Users can view notices and hostel divisions. The system will follow a waterfall development model and use SQL database, with security and performance testing planned.
CPSI is a leading vendor for small hospitals under 100 beds, with a client base of around 650 small and critical access hospitals. It has developed all of its applications and modules in-house over decades of self-development. Medhost was formed through the merger of HMS and EDIS leader Medhost. It has a client base skewed toward smaller and mid-sized proprietary hospital chains. Healthland grew rapidly serving small Midwest hospitals and has acquired several other vendors to expand its client base to around 500 small hospitals. NextGen enters the small hospital market through acquisitions but makes most of its revenue from its large base of over 40,000 physician clients.
This document summarizes and analyzes the top 10 healthcare IT vendors based on 2017 annual revenue. It discusses the estimated $300M or less annual revenue of the last four vendors - CPSI, Harris Healthcare, Medhost, and Cantata. For each, it provides a brief history, product lines, client base, and future prospects. It concludes that the biggest news this year was McKesson and Siemens no longer being in the top 10, and Epic now having three product varieties for different hospital sizes.
HMS was co-founded in 1984 by Tom Givens and John Doss in Nashville, Tennessee. They got their start by customizing software for the IBM System 32 minicomputers used by American Medical Centers hospitals. This led them to land Community Health Systems as their first client. HMS grew rapidly by partnering with IBM and selling to hospital chains. By next week's episode, HMS had grown to over 600 hospital clients and $100M in annual revenue, evolving from financial systems to clinical applications.
Cerner maintained the #1 spot for the fourth year in a row with over $5 billion in annual revenue. Their growth was driven by large government contracts like the $8 billion DoD deal and a $5 billion contract with the VA. Epic remained in second place with 9% revenue growth to $2.7 billion, and will likely gain clients switching from Siemens and Allscripts. Allscripts acquired McKesson's EIS business for $185 million, giving them new HIS products like Paragon to expand in the small hospital market as their physician practice business provides the majority of their $1.8 billion in revenue.
This document discusses the top 10 healthcare IT vendors by 2016 revenue. It focuses on the high-end vendors with over $1.5 billion in revenue that primarily target large hospitals of 300+ beds. Cerner maintained the #1 spot with around $5 billion in revenue, an 8% increase. Epic was #2 with $2.5 billion in revenue, a 23% increase. Allscripts was #3 with $1.5 billion in revenue, a 12% increase. McKesson dropped to #4 with around $1.5 billion in revenue from its IT division, a estimated 50% decline. GE was dropped from the top 10 list due to losing many hospital clients in recent years. The following weeks will
This document discusses the top 10 healthcare IT vendors by 2016 revenue. It focuses on the high-end vendors with over $1.5 billion in revenue that primarily target large hospitals of 300+ beds. Cerner maintained the #1 spot with around $5 billion in revenue, an 8% increase over 2015. Epic was #2 with $2.5 billion in revenue, up 23%. Allscripts was #3 with $1.5 billion, a 12% increase. McKesson dropped to #4 with around $1.5 billion in revenue from its IT division, a 50% decline from selling off parts of its business. The document outlines recent developments and future prospects for each of these top vendors.
This document summarizes mid-sized hospital information systems (HIS) vendors with annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It discusses Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, and HMS/Medhost. For each vendor, it provides details on products, client base, revenue history, acquisitions, and future prospects. It also discusses a major acquisition involving NTT Data and the impact on its consulting business.
This document summarizes mid-range hospital information system (HIS) vendors that target community hospitals with 100-300 beds. It discusses 5 vendors: Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, HMS/Medhost, QuadraMed, and their histories, products, revenues, acquisitions, and future prospects. Recent developments like Meditech's new integrated physician system and NTT Data's acquisition of Dell's consulting division are also mentioned. The document concludes by previewing coverage of small hospital HIS vendors in the next episode.
This document summarizes mid-sized hospital information systems (HIS) vendors with annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It discusses Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, and HMS/Medhost. For each vendor, it provides details on products, client base, revenue history, acquisitions, and future prospects. It also discusses a major acquisition involving NTT Data and the impact on its consulting business.
Tom Givens and John Doss co-founded Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) in 1984 after gaining experience implementing systems for American Medical Centers. They focused initially on hospital chains and grew with IBM systems, helping standalone hospitals adopt minicomputers. HMS specialized in corporate reporting and won clients over larger systems. By automating chains, HMS became a leading vendor for small hospitals. The story will continue next week through HMS' growth into clinical systems and recent acquisitions.
This document summarizes the early history of the Compucare healthcare IT company. It describes how founder Sheldon Dorenfest originally envisioned Compucare as a shared system vendor in 1969, but then pioneered the facilities management model of outsourcing hospital IT departments. Compucare grew quickly using this model before facing challenges developing clinical applications. It acquired applications from Meditech and eventually was sold to Baxter. Baxter later sold Compucare back to founder Ron Aprahamian, who rebuilt it and it was later acquired by QuadraMed, where remnants of the system still run today.
This document summarizes the early history of the Compucare healthcare IT company. It describes how founder Sheldon Dorenfest originally envisioned Compucare as a shared system vendor in 1969, but then pioneered the facilities management model of outsourcing hospital IT departments. Compucare grew quickly using this model before facing challenges developing clinical applications. It acquired applications from Meditech and eventually was sold to Baxter and IBAX before founder Ron Aprahamian bought it back and rebuilt it as Affinity, which was later acquired by QuadraMed. Compucare helped pioneer the facilities management model and development of mini-computer based clinical and financial healthcare IT systems.
This document provides an overview and analysis of 3 mid-sized healthcare information system (HIS) vendors: athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and Meditech. It discusses their annual revenues, product lines, client bases by hospital size, recent acquisitions and developments, and future prospects. Athenahealth has over $1 billion in annual revenue and offers both physician practice and hospital information systems. eClinicalWorks generates $490 million annually from its electronic health records for small physician practices but faced legal issues in 2017. Meditech has a long history and three distinct HIS products serving over 1,000 hospitals, and its prospects are positive with a new physician system and cloud offerings.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and McKesson round out the top vendors, though McKesson's technology division revenue declined in 2015. The review will continue to analyze mid-size and small hospital HIS vendors in subsequent episodes.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and Meditech round out the top vendors, though GE was dropped from the top tier due to its small hospital client base. Upcoming episodes will cover mid-size and small hospital vendors.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and Meditech round out the top vendors, though GE has declined in the HIS market. Upcoming episodes will cover mid-size and small hospital vendors.
This document provides a summary of mid-range hospital information system (HIS) vendors, which typically target community hospitals of 100-300 beds. It discusses the revenues and products of Meditech, McKesson's Paragon system, NTT Data's Optimum suite, and QuadraMed. Meditech has over 1,000 clients on three different systems and recently integrated its physician software. Paragon and Optimum are pursuing more integrated offerings like Epic. QuadraMed grew through the 1990s but has had declining revenues since selling businesses. The next part will cover vendors targeting smaller hospitals.
The document summarizes leading physician practice vendors ranked by number of eligible provider (EP) electronic health record (EHR) attestations reported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as of July 2016. It provides details on the history, products, employee and client numbers, revenue, application ratings, and future prospects of the top 6 vendors: 1) Epic, 2) Allscripts, 3) eClinicalWorks, 4) NextGen Healthcare, 5) GE Healthcare, and 6) Cerner.
This document summarizes news from the healthcare IT industry in August 1987 and discusses lessons that can be learned. It provides details on leading vendors of the time, including that only one vendor from 1987 still exists today under the same name and leadership. It also discusses people in the industry at that time, including earnings for various roles, and looks at advertisements from industry publications in 1987 for vendors and products, many of which are still in use today. The document concludes by previewing what will be covered from industry publications in September 1987.
The document summarizes the winners of the 2021 HISsies Awards, which honor the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers of HIStalk. Some of the winners included Epic for Smartest Vendor Action Taken, Cerner for Stupidest Vendor Action Taken, Epic for Best Healthcare IT Vendor, IBM Watson Health for Worst Healthcare IT Vendor, Judy Faulkner of Epic for Best Leader of a Vendor, and Kaiser Permanente for Best Provider User of Healthcare IT. John Halamka of Mayo Clinic won several categories including Most Effective Healthcare IT Provider Executive.
The document summarizes the winners of the Twelfth Annual HISsies Awards which honors the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers. Some of the categories and winners mentioned are:
- Smartest Vendor Action Taken in 2018: Cerner convinces the VA to choose its system without issuing an RFP.
- Stupidest Vendor Action Taken in 2018: Athenahealth hires Jeff Immelt, fires Jonathan Bush, and prematurely enters the inpatient market.
- Best Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting Firm in 2018: Epic.
- Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting Firm in 2018: Allscripts.
- HIS Industry Figure of the
CPSI is a leading vendor for small hospitals under 100 beds, with a client base of around 650 small and critical access hospitals. It has developed all of its applications and modules in-house over decades of self-development. Medhost was formed through the merger of HMS and EDIS leader Medhost. It has a client base skewed toward smaller and mid-sized proprietary hospital chains. Healthland grew rapidly serving small Midwest hospitals and has acquired several other vendors to expand its client base to around 500 small hospitals. NextGen enters the small hospital market through acquisitions but makes most of its revenue from its large base of over 40,000 physician clients.
This document summarizes and analyzes the top 10 healthcare IT vendors based on 2017 annual revenue. It discusses the estimated $300M or less annual revenue of the last four vendors - CPSI, Harris Healthcare, Medhost, and Cantata. For each, it provides a brief history, product lines, client base, and future prospects. It concludes that the biggest news this year was McKesson and Siemens no longer being in the top 10, and Epic now having three product varieties for different hospital sizes.
HMS was co-founded in 1984 by Tom Givens and John Doss in Nashville, Tennessee. They got their start by customizing software for the IBM System 32 minicomputers used by American Medical Centers hospitals. This led them to land Community Health Systems as their first client. HMS grew rapidly by partnering with IBM and selling to hospital chains. By next week's episode, HMS had grown to over 600 hospital clients and $100M in annual revenue, evolving from financial systems to clinical applications.
Cerner maintained the #1 spot for the fourth year in a row with over $5 billion in annual revenue. Their growth was driven by large government contracts like the $8 billion DoD deal and a $5 billion contract with the VA. Epic remained in second place with 9% revenue growth to $2.7 billion, and will likely gain clients switching from Siemens and Allscripts. Allscripts acquired McKesson's EIS business for $185 million, giving them new HIS products like Paragon to expand in the small hospital market as their physician practice business provides the majority of their $1.8 billion in revenue.
This document discusses the top 10 healthcare IT vendors by 2016 revenue. It focuses on the high-end vendors with over $1.5 billion in revenue that primarily target large hospitals of 300+ beds. Cerner maintained the #1 spot with around $5 billion in revenue, an 8% increase. Epic was #2 with $2.5 billion in revenue, a 23% increase. Allscripts was #3 with $1.5 billion in revenue, a 12% increase. McKesson dropped to #4 with around $1.5 billion in revenue from its IT division, a estimated 50% decline. GE was dropped from the top 10 list due to losing many hospital clients in recent years. The following weeks will
This document discusses the top 10 healthcare IT vendors by 2016 revenue. It focuses on the high-end vendors with over $1.5 billion in revenue that primarily target large hospitals of 300+ beds. Cerner maintained the #1 spot with around $5 billion in revenue, an 8% increase over 2015. Epic was #2 with $2.5 billion in revenue, up 23%. Allscripts was #3 with $1.5 billion, a 12% increase. McKesson dropped to #4 with around $1.5 billion in revenue from its IT division, a 50% decline from selling off parts of its business. The document outlines recent developments and future prospects for each of these top vendors.
This document summarizes mid-sized hospital information systems (HIS) vendors with annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It discusses Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, and HMS/Medhost. For each vendor, it provides details on products, client base, revenue history, acquisitions, and future prospects. It also discusses a major acquisition involving NTT Data and the impact on its consulting business.
This document summarizes mid-range hospital information system (HIS) vendors that target community hospitals with 100-300 beds. It discusses 5 vendors: Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, HMS/Medhost, QuadraMed, and their histories, products, revenues, acquisitions, and future prospects. Recent developments like Meditech's new integrated physician system and NTT Data's acquisition of Dell's consulting division are also mentioned. The document concludes by previewing coverage of small hospital HIS vendors in the next episode.
This document summarizes mid-sized hospital information systems (HIS) vendors with annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It discusses Meditech, NTT Data Medhost, and HMS/Medhost. For each vendor, it provides details on products, client base, revenue history, acquisitions, and future prospects. It also discusses a major acquisition involving NTT Data and the impact on its consulting business.
Tom Givens and John Doss co-founded Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) in 1984 after gaining experience implementing systems for American Medical Centers. They focused initially on hospital chains and grew with IBM systems, helping standalone hospitals adopt minicomputers. HMS specialized in corporate reporting and won clients over larger systems. By automating chains, HMS became a leading vendor for small hospitals. The story will continue next week through HMS' growth into clinical systems and recent acquisitions.
This document summarizes the early history of the Compucare healthcare IT company. It describes how founder Sheldon Dorenfest originally envisioned Compucare as a shared system vendor in 1969, but then pioneered the facilities management model of outsourcing hospital IT departments. Compucare grew quickly using this model before facing challenges developing clinical applications. It acquired applications from Meditech and eventually was sold to Baxter. Baxter later sold Compucare back to founder Ron Aprahamian, who rebuilt it and it was later acquired by QuadraMed, where remnants of the system still run today.
This document summarizes the early history of the Compucare healthcare IT company. It describes how founder Sheldon Dorenfest originally envisioned Compucare as a shared system vendor in 1969, but then pioneered the facilities management model of outsourcing hospital IT departments. Compucare grew quickly using this model before facing challenges developing clinical applications. It acquired applications from Meditech and eventually was sold to Baxter and IBAX before founder Ron Aprahamian bought it back and rebuilt it as Affinity, which was later acquired by QuadraMed. Compucare helped pioneer the facilities management model and development of mini-computer based clinical and financial healthcare IT systems.
This document provides an overview and analysis of 3 mid-sized healthcare information system (HIS) vendors: athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and Meditech. It discusses their annual revenues, product lines, client bases by hospital size, recent acquisitions and developments, and future prospects. Athenahealth has over $1 billion in annual revenue and offers both physician practice and hospital information systems. eClinicalWorks generates $490 million annually from its electronic health records for small physician practices but faced legal issues in 2017. Meditech has a long history and three distinct HIS products serving over 1,000 hospitals, and its prospects are positive with a new physician system and cloud offerings.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and McKesson round out the top vendors, though McKesson's technology division revenue declined in 2015. The review will continue to analyze mid-size and small hospital HIS vendors in subsequent episodes.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and Meditech round out the top vendors, though GE was dropped from the top tier due to its small hospital client base. Upcoming episodes will cover mid-size and small hospital vendors.
This document summarizes a vendor review of high-end hospital information systems (HIS) vendors. Cerner has become the largest vendor in terms of annual revenue, surpassing McKesson. Cerner's acquisition of Siemens and major Department of Defense contract contributed to its growth. Epic is also experiencing steady growth. Allscripts and Meditech round out the top vendors, though GE has declined in the HIS market. Upcoming episodes will cover mid-size and small hospital vendors.
This document provides a summary of mid-range hospital information system (HIS) vendors, which typically target community hospitals of 100-300 beds. It discusses the revenues and products of Meditech, McKesson's Paragon system, NTT Data's Optimum suite, and QuadraMed. Meditech has over 1,000 clients on three different systems and recently integrated its physician software. Paragon and Optimum are pursuing more integrated offerings like Epic. QuadraMed grew through the 1990s but has had declining revenues since selling businesses. The next part will cover vendors targeting smaller hospitals.
The document summarizes leading physician practice vendors ranked by number of eligible provider (EP) electronic health record (EHR) attestations reported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as of July 2016. It provides details on the history, products, employee and client numbers, revenue, application ratings, and future prospects of the top 6 vendors: 1) Epic, 2) Allscripts, 3) eClinicalWorks, 4) NextGen Healthcare, 5) GE Healthcare, and 6) Cerner.
This document summarizes news from the healthcare IT industry in August 1987 and discusses lessons that can be learned. It provides details on leading vendors of the time, including that only one vendor from 1987 still exists today under the same name and leadership. It also discusses people in the industry at that time, including earnings for various roles, and looks at advertisements from industry publications in 1987 for vendors and products, many of which are still in use today. The document concludes by previewing what will be covered from industry publications in September 1987.
The document summarizes the winners of the 2021 HISsies Awards, which honor the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers of HIStalk. Some of the winners included Epic for Smartest Vendor Action Taken, Cerner for Stupidest Vendor Action Taken, Epic for Best Healthcare IT Vendor, IBM Watson Health for Worst Healthcare IT Vendor, Judy Faulkner of Epic for Best Leader of a Vendor, and Kaiser Permanente for Best Provider User of Healthcare IT. John Halamka of Mayo Clinic won several categories including Most Effective Healthcare IT Provider Executive.
The document summarizes the winners of the Twelfth Annual HISsies Awards which honors the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers. Some of the categories and winners mentioned are:
- Smartest Vendor Action Taken in 2018: Cerner convinces the VA to choose its system without issuing an RFP.
- Stupidest Vendor Action Taken in 2018: Athenahealth hires Jeff Immelt, fires Jonathan Bush, and prematurely enters the inpatient market.
- Best Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting Firm in 2018: Epic.
- Worst Healthcare IT Vendor or Consulting Firm in 2018: Allscripts.
- HIS Industry Figure of the
This document summarizes the top 10 healthcare IT vendors based on annual revenue. Cerner surged to the lead with over $5 billion in revenue in 2017 thanks to large contracts. eCW edged ahead of Meditech for the #5 spot. McKesson is no longer in the top 10 after selling their EIS division to Allscripts. Cantata, formerly of NTT Data, is a new addition to the top 10. The rankings 20 years ago are also provided for comparison - none of today's top 5 vendors were on the list at that time. Future episodes will provide more details on vendor performance in the large, mid-size, and small hospital market segments.
This document summarizes the top 10 healthcare IT vendors in 2018 based on annual revenue. Cerner surged to the top spot with over $5 billion in revenue thanks to large contracts. eCW edged ahead of Meditech for the #5 spot. McKesson is no longer in the top 10 after selling their EIS division to Allscripts. Cantata, formerly of NTT Data, is a new addition to the top 10. The rankings and vendors have changed significantly over the past 20 years. In upcoming episodes, each vendor's performance will be analyzed based on the hospital size segments they target.
This document summarizes the top 10 healthcare IT vendors based on annual revenue. Cerner surged to the lead with over $5 billion in revenue in 2017 thanks to large contracts. eCW edged ahead of Meditech for the #5 spot. McKesson is no longer in the top 10 after selling their EIS division to Allscripts. Cantata, formerly of NTT Data, is a new addition to the top 10. The rankings 20 years ago are also provided for comparison - none of today's top 5 vendors were on the list at that time. Future episodes will provide more details on vendor performance in different market segments.
This document summarizes the winners of the 11th Annual HISsies Awards, which honors the best and worst of healthcare IT as voted by readers of HIStalk. Key award categories and winners included Smartest Vendor Action Taken (Cerner convinces VA to choose its system without bidding), Stupidest Vendor Action Taken (EClinicalWorks accused of falsifying EMR certification data), Best Healthcare IT Vendor (Epic), and Most Effective Healthcare IT Figure (John Halamka of BIDMC). The awards recognize significant people, organizations, technologies and events in the healthcare IT industry each year.
This document summarizes articles from a 1988 healthcare computing magazine, highlighting how hospital information systems have changed over the past 30 years. It notes that in the late 1970s and early 1980s, hospitals switched from shared systems to in-house systems but were beginning to return to shared systems for improved support. Today, leading vendors like Cerner, Epic and Meditech predominantly offer remote hosting from large data centers, similar to the old shared systems. The document also discusses the evolution of healthcare consulting firms and provides advice on selecting consultants that is still relevant today.
This document summarizes and discusses news articles from the February 1988 issue of Computers in Healthcare magazine. It describes an advertisement from Phillips promoting their PACS technology from 30 years ago. The lead story featured Professional Healthcare Systems (PHS), an HIS vendor spun off from a large hospital chain. PHS was later acquired by several different companies over the years. Another article discusses three companies pioneering bedside terminal systems in the 1980s. The document analyzes the longevity and acquisitions of various healthcare IT vendors mentioned in the magazine from 30 years ago compared to today's leading companies.
This document provides a summary of news and events from the healthcare IT industry in January 1988, as reported in two industry publications. It describes the formation of SMS's turnkey division to offer in-house systems in response to competitors. A pioneering hospital is highlighted for being an early adopter of barcoding for medication verification. A LIS vendor offers an unprecedented uptime guarantee. The name changes of two vendors, AIC and HMS, are noted. Several early healthcare IT companies and their original names/acronyms are identified.
This document summarizes news from the healthcare IT industry in December 1987:
- Kodak was a major vendor of photographic film but struggled after digital cameras were introduced. A device from Kodak allowed displaying a PC screen on an overhead projector.
- Sentry Data was a major player in the 1980s with their Tandem "non-stop" healthcare IT system. A modern startup reused the name "Sentry."
- In 1987, CEOs of four leading lab vendors made predictions about 1992 - two predictions were premature but others proved accurate about adoption of EHRs and integrated healthcare IT systems.
- The document provides other insights into the early healthcare IT industry including vendors like Medite
This document summarizes healthcare IT news from November 1987 and discusses how the industry has changed. It provides ads and articles from that time period about leading vendors like Cerner, Sunquest, and NCR. It also discusses the evolution of technologies like mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and today's cloud-based systems. Additionally, it accurately predicts that the number of hospitals and beds in the US would decrease by 2000. The document highlights how healthcare IT has progressed over the last 30 years.
The document summarizes news from the healthcare IT industry from October 1987. It discusses how leading EMR vendor TDS withdrew from bidding on the DoD's CHCS contract due to issues with requirements. Many major vendors at the time bid on the large DoD project, though McDonnell Douglas subsidiary McAuto ultimately lost to consulting firm SAIC. The document also describes the founding of the HL7 standard to help address the problem of building interfaces between different clinical systems. Advertisements from the time show how few vendors from 30 years ago are still in business today under the same name.
This document summarizes healthcare IT news and events from September 1987:
- It highlights an editorial from Bill Childs questioning IBM's dominance of the hardware market.
- It profiles Scott Holbrook, who had an impressive career moving between major companies like IBM, McAuto, and IHC.
- The major healthcare IT conferences at the time were ECHO and the AHA annual convention, while HIMSS was still relatively small.
- It reflects on vendors advertising in 1987, noting that only Sunquest still exists under the same name today.
- A graph shows the longevity of today's major EHR vendors like Meditech, Epic, CPSI, and Cerner, who have been in business for
This document discusses the history of the healthcare IT company Cerner, including:
- Cerner has had consistent leadership, with Neal Paterson serving as CEO for the company's entire 34-year history.
- Trace Devanny served as Cerner's President from 1999-2010 after joining as a sales representative and rising through the ranks.
- In 2013, Zane Burke was promoted from COO to become Cerner's third President.
- Cerner has experienced tremendous growth over 34 years, with annual revenue increasing and over 12,000 employees worldwide.
This document provides an overview of Cerner's history from its beginnings in 1979 developing lab information systems to its current position as a leading provider of healthcare IT systems. It discusses Cerner's development of its Health Network Architecture (HNA) in the 1990s which expanded its offerings beyond labs into a full hospital information system. Key acquisitions and partnerships that helped grow Cerner's product portfolio are also summarized. The document concludes by teasing the story of McKesson's history which will be covered in the next episode.
Cerner was selected by a large Pennsylvania healthcare system for their new laboratory information system (LIS) after a thorough selection process. The selection team evaluated vendors through scored demonstrations, user documentation reviews, phone reference calls to existing clients, and unaccompanied site visits. Cerner scored highest across all evaluation steps, excelling in user-friendliness, documentation quality, post-implementation support, and system functionality witnessed at client sites. As a result of this selection process, Cerner rose to the top of the LIS market and was chosen by the healthcare system over competitors like Sunquest and ALS.
Cerner began as PGI in 1979 and changed its name in 1984 after hiring advertising executives to come up with a new name. They chose "Cerner", which comes from Latin and other languages meaning things like "to discern" and "to blossom". In 1986, Cerner went public with its IPO, allowing initial investors to profit and increasing confidence in the company. By going public, Cerner was able to extend stock options to employees to share in the company's success. Cerner's stock has grown tremendously since its IPO, demonstrating the company's strong financial performance over the decades.
This document summarizes the early history of Cerner, formerly known as PGI. It describes how PGI entered the healthcare IT market in the early 1980s by developing a Laboratory Information System (LIS) called PathNet. PGI was successful in implementing PathNet at four pilot hospitals between 1981-1983. This helped the company gain funding and compete against other established LIS vendors at the time as the LIS market was growing rapidly. By 1988, Cerner had grown to 72 LIS sales, ranking them 9th among LIS vendors surveyed that year. The document provides context about the healthcare IT landscape in the early 1980s.
This document provides an overview of the early history of Cerner, one of the largest healthcare IT companies. It describes how Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig, and Paul Gorup met at Arthur Andersen and founded PGI Inc. in 1979. As consultants at Arthur Andersen, they gained experience in healthcare IT. Their first clients included hospitals in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. They found success developing clinical systems, renaming their company Cerner in 1979. The document profiles the founders and how their experience led them to start a company in healthcare IT.
This document provides an overview of physician practice vendors, including details on the top 10 vendors and an overview of the remaining 622 vendors. It discusses the vendors' products, origins, mergers and acquisitions, annual revenues, and number of employees. It also offers suggestions for how medical practices can evaluate the many vendor options, such as making reference calls to existing users, reviewing user manuals, conducting site visits, meeting implementation teams, and having physicians do hands-on testing of finalist vendors' systems. The goal is to select the "least of the evils" and prepare users for challenges during the EHR conversion process.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
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Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
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• Dynamic Configuration of REDO Logs: Enhance your database's performance and flexibility with on-the-fly adjustments to REDO log capacity. Unleash the power of the snake metaphor to visualize how InnoDB manages REDO log files.
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The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
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-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
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The entire database market is moving towards Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), resulting in a heterogeneous DBaaS landscape shaped by database vendors, cloud providers, and DBaaS brokers. This DBaaS landscape is rapidly evolving and the DBaaS products differ in their features but also their price and performance capabilities. In consequence, selecting the optimal DBaaS provider for the customer needs becomes a challenge, especially for performance-critical applications.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
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2. 2nd of today’s “Baker’s Dozen!”
• Thanks to co-founder John Doss & Tom Givens,
this week we conclude the 2nd story of today’s
HIS vendors: Healthcare Management Systems
- $3.2B = McKesson, née HBOC = Walt Huff, Bruce Barrington, & David Owens
- $2.2B = Cerner, still run by Neal Patterson, co-founded with Cliff Illig
- $1.7B (est) = Siemens, née SMS: Jim Macaleer, Harvey Wilson & Clyde Hyde
- $1.4B = Allscripts, née Eclipsys, also founded by Harvey Wilson of SMS.
- $1.2B = Epic. Gee, I have to wonder, just who was it who founded them?
- $900M (est) - GE Healthcare, née IDX/PHAMIS: created by Malcolm Gleser
- $545M = Meditech, still run after all these years by Antonino Papallardo
- $353M = NextGen: new Opus & old Sphere financials by Florian Weiland
- $174M = CPSI (Computer Products & Services Inc), founded by David Dye
- $170M = QuadraMed, née Compucare, founded by Sheldon Dorenfest
- $160M = Keane, parent giant by John Keane, but HIS div. built by Ray Paris
- $110M = HMS (Healthcare Management Systems), Tom Givens & John Doss
- $70M (est) = Healthland, formerly Dairyland, founded by Steve Klick
3. Amazing Grace Growth!
• In 1984, Tom & John started HMS with 2 other employees, and a
handful of clients, mostly small hospital chains based in Nashville.
• HMS grew slowly in the 80s, then took off in the 90s as their chain
clients grew & IBM’s AS/400 minicomputer sales burgeoned.
• By 1996, HMS had 120 clients in 27 states, with about $5M in
annual revenue. HMS grew amazingly since then, as shown below
plotting their annual revenue growth by year in millions of dollars:
2010 2005 2000 1995
4. Changes in Ownership
• In 2000, John Doss & Tom Givens restructured
HMS into an Employee Stock Ownership Program
or “ESOP,” giving the 100-odd employees then a
piece of the action (no SMS pun intended).
• Tom & John eventually stepped down from day-
to-day management of the firm in 2005, turning
the management reins over to Tom Stephenson as
CEO, one of their first 4 employees from 1984.
• In 2007, an even larger change occurred when HMS was acquired
by Primus Capital, a VC firm like Francisco Partners that acquired
HIS vendors Healthland (Dairyland) & QuadraMed (Compucare).
Who in the world is Primus? To quote their press release:
– “Primus is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth
companies within the healthcare, business services,
communications and for-profit education industry sectors.”
5. Product Growth
• HMS’s HIS product was originally known as “Monitor” back in the
day, and it grew as rapidly as the firm’s client base and revenue:
– From primarily financial systems back in the 80s (which is how
so many HIS vendors started), including patient accounting
(census, billing & AR) and general accounting (AP, GL, etc.)
– Augmented by their excellent corporate reporting for their
large number of hospital chain clients like AMC and CHS.
– In 2001, HMS introduced an integrated
Electronic Health Record and Clinical View,
giving clinicians a comprehensive look at
electronic patient information, including lab
results, vital signs, transcribed radiology
reports, the patient’s pharmacy profile and
more. Per the ARRA stimulus program,
HMS’s E.H.R was certified in 2007 by:
6. Expansion/Acquisitions
• In 2009 HMS announced the addition of an Ambulatory EHR and
physician practice management suite, including modules for:
– Registration, Scheduling and 1500 Billing.
• Probably HMS’ most daring product biggest jump however was
the acquisition of the premier ED system vendor: MedHost.
– I first saw MedHost at Olean Hospital in upstate NY a few
years ago, and was blown away by how well the nurses and
physicians loved it, bragging of how much time it saved them.
– This was no salesman’s demo: it was from the actual usersI
• Like so many vendors, HMS is now working
on the complex interfaces between
MedHost, their HIS suite, and ambulatory
E.H.R. If they pull it off, they’ll may become
the “epic” solution for small hospitals!?
7. Recent System Selection
• To show how well HMS matured, the scores below shows how they
performed at a system selection at a 50-bed hospital in the Midwest
that we helped a few years ago, based on user ratings of key steps:
• Site visits – to local hospitals running the
same apps, without sales chaperones!
• Implementation – experience of the
actual project manager & # of days on-
site
• MD Fair – concurrent demos in adjacent
rooms so MDs compare CPOE & EMRs
• Contract – based on our 70-point
contract questionnaire on terms &
conditions
• Documentation – reviewing the actual
CDs and on-line documentation by users
• Phone references – user-to-user phone
calls to over a dozen live client sites
8. The $64,000 Question?
• I’m sure many CIOs out there are wondering how much such a
system costs? Since vendors’ prices are confidential and these are
today’s vendors, all we can share are some ballpark figures:
• In the small hospital world (under 100 beds) the three leading
vendors today in terms of market share and # of clients are:
– CPSI with ≈650, HMS with ≈600, Healthland with ≈550
– (“up & coming” vendors include NextGen & Prognosis…)
• To show why these 3 do so well in this demanding market, where
hospitals are extremely challenged financially, and usually have IT
staffs in the single digits (CAH often have only 1 or 2 IT FTEs!):
– Capital costs for license fees, implementation and hardware
(most run inhouse, few do remote) run from $1M to 1.5M
– Operating costs for hardware, software and interface
maintenance usually runs in the low 6-figures…
– TCO over 5 years of about $2M (eat your heart out big CIOs!)
9. The Name Game
• Funny how these 3 small HIS vendors change their product
names, today calling their suite of HIS apps “solutions,” as if their
system solve all the problems hospitals are facing… To whit:
• HMS – the old name of
“Monitor” that describes how
well HMS’ corporate reporting
helped chains watch finances.
Now, HMS offers “solutions.”
• Healthland – gave up on
“Vision,” a propos considering
how vendors are always selling
the 4th quarter (they just won’t
commit to which year…), and
are now calling it “Centriq.”
• CPSI – rather creatively calls its
HIS suite the “CPSI System.”
10. A Final Thanks… and next week!
• Besides Tom Givens and John Doss for this story, I’d like to thank
another old HMS-er who shared anecdotes from the firm’s past :
– Carl Schneider – who was HMS’ VP of Sales & Marketing
during the halcyon 90s, left the firm for a few years, then
came back until just recently. His many old friend can reach
him at his new small hospital HIS vendor: Custom Software
Systems cschneider@csshealthtech.com 615/714-9717
• Next up for today’s vendors will be Keane (NTT),
whose acquisitions cover many other HIS-tories:
• SDS – Source Data Systems, Cedar Rapids, IA
• Infostat – my old friend John Indrigo from TX
• CHC – Community Health Computing
• PatCom – from Professional Hospital
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