KLAS Offers Performance Insights on HIE and EMR Interoperability

    OREM, UT, November 04, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- KLAS releases scores and analysis regarding solutions for electronic medical record (EMR) interoperability and health information exchanges (HIEs). This, to provide clarity into a market that is cluttered with competing claims.

EMR Interoperability 2014: Where Are We on the Yellow Brick Road?
- 82% of providers interviewed feel at least moderately successful in achieving interoperability. Cerner, Epic, and Siemens customers mentioned complex, multifaceted connections but did not always rate overall success as high. In contrast, athenahealth, MEDITECH, and NextGen customers feel successful but described common interfaces and less sophisticated capabilities.
- Less than half of providers said their vendor cooperates well with other vendors. But there are exceptions.
- HIE was named as the top interoperability platform currently used to impact patient care. It is also the most common target for future investment.

2013 Best in KLAS: Software and Services - Health Information Exchange category
Rankings
1. Epic Care Everywhere - 89.3
2. Orion Health HIE - 84.6
3. Siemens MobileMD HIE - 81.2
4. Cerner Network - 78.9
5. eClinicalWorks Electronic Health eXchange (eEHX) - 77.2
6. RelayHealth Information Exchange - 73.0
7. Medicity HIE - 66.5
8. Optum Health Information Exchange - 50.7

2014 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report
Data collection in progress until Dec. 15, 2014. Results to be announced end of January 2015.

NOTE: KLAS will be holding a live webinar at the beginning of December to discuss interoperability. Coming details will be posted on www.KLASresearch.com.

For more-detailed information on each vendor's performance visit KLAS online at www.KLASresearch.com/reports. The reports are available to healthcare providers and vendors. Providers receive a significant discount off the standard retail price or can receive a complimentary summary report in exchange for a survey about their current vendors.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving supplier performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

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