MedCity News February 27, 2025
The app store approach in healthcare enables seamless integration of best-of-breed solutions with existing EMR systems, fostering innovation by accelerating the adoption of technologies like AI, telehealth, and remote monitoring.
Modern electronic medical record (EMR) platforms come with a set of applications used by clinicians in providing patient care. Many clinicians, however, strongly prefer to use various third-party apps in lieu of their EMR’s preinstalled tools.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, EMR vendors are resistant to provider requests to integrate third-party tools because these platform vendors fear “best of breed” solutions may undermine the value of their products, possibly diminishing future revenue. Provider organizations, for their part, want to give clinicians the tools they prefer, but also want to protect their EMR...