HealthLeaders Media May 20, 2021
EMR acquisition spiked in the fourth quarter, after being put on hold during the COVID-19 lockdown in the first half of 2020.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Cerner saw “strong success” competing for community hospitals.
– Allscripts saw stable market share in 2020.
– Epic market share growth was less than 2015 gains.
The COVID-19 pandemic allowed electronic medical record (EMR) company Epic to continue to gain a greater share of the U.S. acute care market last year, according to the 2021 U.S. Hospital Market Share report from KLAS.
Cerner, on the other hand, saw a second consecutive year of net market share decreases. A 37-hospital organization chose to move to Epic; 31 of the hospitals were using Cerner, accounting for more...