IDC Releases 2017 Health Tech Top 50: U.S. Dominates, China Represented Solely by Winning Health

For over 50 years, International Data Corporation (IDC) has been dedicated to collecting and analyzing data on the IT industry and revenue information from global healthcare IT companies. Leveraging its long-established IDC FinTech ranking methodology, IDC Health Insights’ global analyst team analyzes data from healthcare IT vendors and draws upon its knowledge of global trends and industry developments to produce accurate rankings, which are then published worldwide. Both buyers and suppliers of IT solutions in the healthcare sector can use this data to enhance the reliability of their strategic decision-making.

IDC recently released a ranking of healthcare technology companies. Among these, the IDC Health Insights ranking of healthcare technology companies is globally comprehensive and precise, focusing on leading global healthcare technology vendors serving both healthcare buyers and sellers. The ranking evaluates vendors based on their hardware, software, and service metrics. It provides reliable ranking information to healthcare organizations and buyers, helping them make more accurate strategic decisions. This list was compiled by VCBeat (WeChat: vcbeat).

Region: Maine, USA

Optum is a healthcare services and innovation company under the UnitedHealth Group, with Larry Renfro serving as its CEO. The company leverages data analytics to expand its fund scale and possesses industry-leading healthcare data, including 180 million health claims records and 85 million clinical data entries. It provides predictive analytics services to help clients take proactive measures.

OptumRx®, the company’s medication care services system, transcends traditional pharmacy benefit management by leveraging analytics and high-impact touchpoints in healthcare to improve overall population health. Through in-depth analysis of population health, Optum delivers comprehensive clinical and financial services to specific patient populations, enabling holistic health management for all. The OptumCare® product line provides personalized services to patients across three domains: primary care, specialty care, and post-acute care.

Region: Missouri, United States

As a long-established health information technology (HIT) vendor, Cerner launched remote ICU-related products early on and achieved favorable market reception. In 2015, Cerner reached an agreement with the healthcare data company Validic to integrate activity data collected from users’ daily wearable devices into Cerner’s HealthLife health application. Meanwhile, Cerner partnered with the telemedicine technology company Vidyo to promote remote consultation services among physicians. Additionally, Cerner collaborated with Qualcomm Life to integrate vital signs collected by patients at home using medical devices into its electronic health record (EHR) system.

Region: Chalfont St Giles, UK

GE Healthcare focuses on AI-driven healthcare, with Charles Koontz serving as the company’s Chief Data Officer. Partners HealthCare has entered into a ten-year partnership with GE Healthcare to integrate deep learning technologies into its network. Meanwhile, GE Healthcare is also collaborating with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to jointly develop a library of deep learning algorithms aimed at accelerating identification and diagnosis, improving clinical workflows, thereby reducing treatment time and optimizing patient outcome predictions.

Once these algorithms are deployed globally as applications on the GE Health Cloud and intelligent GE imaging devices, clinicians worldwide will be able to create new algorithms by leveraging virtual technologies along with their own professional expertise and clinical experience.

Region: Georgia, USA

McKesson is a provider of information and healthcare management products and services. The company operates in areas such as software, commercial services, and healthcare automation, and will jointly establish a new company with Change Healthcare Inc., an analytics and network software firm.

McKesson and Change Healthcare stated that the new company will serve payers, providers, and consumers by leveraging financial and management technologies to address complex tasks such as medical billing and claims processing. This will accelerate the capitalization of healthcare, establish a value-based purchasing and payment system, and create more efficient approaches in areas including point-to-point payments, healthcare solutions, and clinical capabilities.

Region: Wisconsin, United States

Epic Systems is a privately held company specializing in healthcare software development, with a market focus on large healthcare organizations and academic medical centers. The company offers integrated healthcare software built on the Caché database provided by InterSystems. For example, Care Everywhere is Epic’s health information exchange software, which comes bundled with its EHR system. Epic’s application portfolio includes: patient care, registration, and scheduling; clinical systems designed for physicians, nurses, emergency personnel, and other care providers; systems serving laboratory technicians, pharmacists, and radiologists; and billing systems for insurance companies.

Region: Illinois, USA

Allscripts, a provider of electronic health records (EHR) and population health management solutions, was founded in 1986 and is a leader in mobile EHR products. Dr. Fatima Paruk serves as its Chief Medical Officer. The company offers practice management and electronic health record technologies to physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, along with solutions for patient engagement, care coordination, and financial and analytics technologies.

Innovative solutions connect people, places, and data into an open Health™ system, enabling caregivers to make better decisions through enhanced communication. At the core of the comprehensive population health solution suite are clinical and financial systems, which integrate diverse clinical data sources to formulate strategies based on extensive analytics, such as the dbMotion Clinical Analytics Gateway.

Region: Massachusetts, United States

Athenahealth is a cloud-based healthcare services company, with Jonathan Bush serving as its Chief Executive Officer. Its product portfolio includes athenaCollector for revenue cycle and medical practice management, athenaClinical for electronic health records (EHR), athenaCommunicator for patient engagement management, athenaCommunicator Enterprise for population health management, athenaCoordinator for order delivery systems, athenaCoordinator Enterprise for patient information access and collaborative care services, and Epocrates, a clinical decision support tool. The company’s business scope is extensive.

At the end of 2016, athenahealth officially launched its new big data healthcare information platform, athenaInsight. The platform is capable of precisely analyzing personalized case information for 80,000 healthcare providers and 81 million patients within its medical network, providing advisory support and guidance to enhance the efficient operation of healthcare systems, improve physician management, and track trends and changes in public health.

As a unicorn with over 4,000 employees and connections to 72,000 service providers and healthcare systems worldwide, athenahealth offers services including electronic health records (EHR), practice management, patient engagement, and care coordination, thereby streamlining the entire clinical workflow and insurance billing process.

Region: Massachusetts, USA

Roper Corporation was originally founded by George D. Roper in the late 19th century as a manufacturer of household appliances, pumps, and other industrial products. The company provides a wide range of products and services to niche markets worldwide and customers in over 100 countries, operating across four primary business segments: Industrial Technologies, Radio Frequency (RF) Technologies, Scientific and Industrial Imaging, and Energy Systems and Controls. Its engineered products and solutions serve the software information networks, healthcare, water, energy, and transportation sectors.

Region: Massachusetts, USA

Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software technology company and provider of voice and language solutions, offering applications such as speech recognition, image processing, and input methods for enterprise and consumer customers. Built on speech recognition technology, Nuance provides a series of solutions including the Nina virtual assistant, conversational IVR (Interactive Voice Response), and managed platforms.

Its current product portfolio focuses on server and embedded speech recognition, telephone switching systems, automated directory assistance services, medical transcription software and systems, optical character recognition (OCR) software, and desktop imaging software. The company also maintains a small division dedicated to providing software and system development for military and government agencies.

Region: North Carolina, USA

Premier was established in 2013 as a national healthcare alliance, comprising approximately 3,750 U.S. hospitals and more than 130,000 suppliers. As of 2016, the company owned, leased, and managed 171 U.S. hospitals and health systems, with nearly 1,400 representatives.

Premier unites hospitals, health systems, and physicians to drive improvement and innovation across clinical, financial, and operational domains, creating comprehensive actionable databases, clinical best practices, and strategies for efficient improvement. It delivers critical supply chain services through a comprehensive technology-enabled platform, offering population health SaaS, information products, consulting services, and performance improvement solutions.

Region: Mouscron, Belgium

Founded in 1867, Agfa Graphics leverages the expertise of its R&D centers to develop and manufacture electronic medical and digital imaging systems, X-ray radiography solutions, hospital information systems, enterprise imaging IT, and digital radiography. The company is dedicated to researching and developing innovative, environmentally friendly digital printing solutions and inkjet technologies.

Following the acquisition of Gandi Innovations in 2010, the company expanded its inkjet product portfolio. In 2016, Agfa HealthCare acquired TIP Group, an Austrian company specializing in the research and development of intelligent hospital operations. Agfa Specialty Products focuses on developing innovative products for markets with growth potential, such as synthetic paper and durable materials used in ID card production, as well as conductive organic materials.

Region: Washington, D.C., USA

This is a company engaged in global research, technology development, and consulting, founded by David G. Bradley in 1979. It helps hospital and health system leaders improve the quality and efficiency of patient care by providing strategic guidance and management services. The Advisory Board’s work includes: research that provides actionable insights for members, global peer collaboration technology based on web analytics platforms, and experienced practice support and practice management service consulting.

Region: Georgia, USA

nThrive (formerly MedAssets, Precyse, and Equation) is a comprehensive company focused on the continuum from patient healthcare to payer claims. It provides next-generation revenue cycle management solutions, including related technologies, consulting services, analytics, educational programs, and the resources necessary for growth. nThrive helps community health networks achieve end-to-end performance improvements in the patient-to-payment revenue cycle by optimizing technology-enabled workflows. Data shows that in 2016, the company generated $26.7 million in cash revenue.

Region: Tennessee, USA

Change Healthcare (formerly Emdeon) was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of Emdeon and is one of the largest independent healthcare technology companies in the United States, providing software and analytics services, network solutions, and technical support services. Neil de Crescenzo serves as the company’s Chairman and CEO.

Change Healthcare meets the diverse needs of stakeholders across the healthcare system, including commercial and government payers, employers, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers, laboratories, and consumers. Its Intelligent Healthcare Network™ has processed more than 12 billion healthcare transactions, covering over $2 trillion in claims. The industry-leading InterQual® standards have been adopted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ensure that patients receive appropriate clinical care.

Region: Massachusetts, USA

InterSystems is a privately held company that provides software systems and technical services, with products and technologies designed for high-performance database management, rapid application development, integration, and healthcare information systems. The company offers the Ensemble integration platform and DeepSee embedded real-time business intelligence.

InterSystems also sells the TrakCare healthcare information system in countries and regions outside the United States. Its main products include: the multimodal database InterSystems Caché; the rapid integration and development platform InterSystems Ensemble; the health information exchange platform and product suite InterSystems HealthShare; the web-based medical information system InterSystems TrakCare; and the proprietary laboratory information management system with business management capabilities, InterSystems LabEnterprise.

Region: Koblenz, Germany

CompuGroup Medical is a European electronic health data company, formerly known as Soft-Aid, that provides medical software solutions to medical practices and larger healthcare institutions worldwide. Its EHR/PM products are marketed under the name CGM Medical.

CGM supports Family Practice, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, and Physical Therapy, featuring Wolters Kluwer professional templates applicable to any medical specialty. Data within these templates is automatically coded using standard nomenclature to enhance accuracy and productivity. CGM’s SAM (Software-Assisted Medicine) module integrates data, business intelligence (BI), and clinical information to achieve improved financial performance and clinical outcomes.

Region: California, USA

Quality Systems, Inc., founded in 1974, markets its medical information systems and communication solutions in the United States. The company comprises four divisions—QSI Dental, NextGen, Hospital Solutions, and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Services—that effectively manage patient information and help patients reschedule care services and optimize other workflows.

QSI’s Dental Division provides web-based software suites for dental practice management and electronic data interchange (EDI) services to dental organizations. The NextGen Division offers solutions to ambulatory and dental organizations, including the NextGen Dynamic Product Suite, NextPen, and NextGen Community Connect products. Software from both divisions enables automation of patient records in community health center and hospital settings.

Region: Massachusetts, USA

Medical Information Technology (Meditech) is a private company founded by A. Neil Pappalardo in 1969, providing software and services for information systems to healthcare institutions of various types and sizes. Some of its software modules include: health information management, revenue cycle, scanning and archiving, scheduling and referral management, emergency department management, cost accounting, data storage, general ledger management, human resources planning, supply chain management, operating room management, patient discharge instructions, long-term care, behavioral health, and home health.

Region: Massachusetts, USA

eClinicalWorks has emerged as a leader in healthcare software solutions, enabling healthcare providers to deliver top-tier care. The company has developed eClinicalWorks V10, an electronic health record (EHR) software that holds complete 2014 ONC Health IT EHR certification and is available as either an on-premise or hosted (SaaS) solution. Additionally, the company offers unified EMR and PM systems for population management, patient portals, health information exchange systems, P2P, eClinicalMobile, eClinicalMessenger, eClinicalTouch, and CCMR services.

Region: Maryland, USA

Inovalon, an internet healthcare company, is a service provider specializing in big data analytics and solutions for the healthcare industry. The company’s predecessor was established in 1998, and it underwent restructuring in May 2014, with Keith Dunleavy serving as President. It has established partnerships with numerous commercial health insurance companies, including U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens as one of its clients. By leveraging data to penetrate deep into the healthcare sector, the company provides a robust platform for health insurers, hospitals and other medical institutions, physicians, patients and members, as well as pharmaceutical R&D personnel and life science researchers.

Inovalon leverages cloud-based data analytics to implement interventions, enabling in-depth research and insights into clinical studies and treatment outcomes. Its flagship product, Star Advantage®, is a quality rating improvement solution that integrates the most widely used healthcare quality measurement and analytics system in China with large-scale, strategic, multi-channel, cloud-based analytics and a nationwide clinical operations infrastructure. This approach ultimately delivers seamlessly integrated solutions and dynamic, updated monitoring of clinical quality outcomes.

Region: Georgia, USA

Cotiviti Healthcare partnered with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to propose the CMS RAC program, aiming to enhance the accuracy of care services and identify process improvements that boost efficiency. A team of experts monitored hundreds of medical resources and payment policy contents, developing algorithms and concepts incorporating the latest standards. The company seamlessly integrates its strengths into the payment cycle, complementing existing processes without disrupting payers’ operations.

Additionally, Cotiviti has built an advanced technology platform that deciphers complex data, transactions, and decision-making in the healthcare and retail industries. By combining world-class analytics with vast amounts of information (over 2 PB of unique data), the platform creates value for customers.

Region: Texas, USA

Conifer Health Solutions provides revenue cycle outsourcing solutions, care management and health plan operations, hospital health systems, and clinical value analysis for employers. The company connects consumers, providers, and risk-bearing entities to facilitate the transition from volume-based care to value-based care, ensuring high-quality clinical outcomes, member engagement, and financial performance. Each year, Conifer handles appointment services for over 20 million patients, manages more than $28 billion in patient revenue, processes over $17 billion in medical management expenditures, and impacts the lives of more than 4 million individuals.

Region: California, USA

In 1992, Omnicell was founded in Silicon Valley, USA. As a global leader in providing automated information management solutions for medications and medical supplies, Omnicell’s management systems can be standardized and integrated with electronic health records (EHR), medication information systems, billing systems, and inventory management systems, ensuring fully automated closed-loop management of clients’ medications and medical supplies.

Currently, Omnicell’s solutions have been adopted by more than 4,000 customers across over 26 countries and regions worldwide. The Omnicell system can communicate with multiple hospital information systems, thereby enabling full automation of prescription orders, medication dispensing, and billing. This enhances accuracy and operational efficiency, helps ensure that medications in nursing units are immediately accessible when patients need them, and establishes a safer and more efficient medication dispensing process.

Notably, the Omnicell Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) can securely store large volumes of medications required by each ward and is connected to servers linked to information systems.

Region: Georgia, USA

Greenway Health, founded by Scott Zimmerman in 2013, is a company that provides private health information technology services, including comprehensive electronic health records, training management, and revenue cycle management solutions. It helps outpatient clinics, hospitals, and clinical practices improve care coordination, increase profitability, and enhance efficiency.

Greenway Health’s revenue cycle management services take a unique approach by proactively following up on every outstanding account and streamlining clinical, operational, and financial processes to achieve optimal financial performance. Its community health centers help address the challenges of limited funding while providing care to patients who struggle to access high-quality healthcare services.

Region: Texas, USA

HMSA is a non-profit consulting firm that provides Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and work/life and health services to managers, employees, and their families at more than 2,000 companies across China. The company has earned an outstanding reputation for high-level customer service, employee engagement, and cost-effective clinical care management planning. HMSA offers a one-stop suite of human resources products, leveraging insights into the psychology of human behavior to help address challenges faced by both employees and senior management.

Region: Wisconsin, United States

CIOX Health, a health information management company (formerly HealthPort), was founded in 1985 and provides a range of services including information disclosure, record retrieval, and health information management. In April 2017, CIOX Health acquired ArroHealth, which primarily offers chart retrieval and risk adjustment services to accountable care organizations and healthcare payers.

Hauppauge, a subsidiary of the company headquartered in New York, also provides services including analytics, medical record retrieval, data aggregation, and risk adjustment coding. In terms of technology, the company conducts penetration testing and social engineering tests with third parties and trains employees on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), security, and privacy.

Region: Alabama, USA

CPSI, founded in 1979, primarily provides healthcare information technology solutions and services for community hospitals and post-acute care. Its subsidiaries include Evident, LLC, TruBridge, LLC, Healthland Inc., American HealthTech, Inc., and Rycan Technologies, Inc. These companies are dedicated to helping improve community health services, connecting communities to deliver better patient care experiences, and optimizing clients’ financial operations.

Among them, Evident provides comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) solutions and services to community hospitals; TruBridge specializes in delivering business, consulting, and information technology services to community healthcare organizations; Healthland offers integrated technology solutions and services to small rural and critical access hospitals; American HealthTech is one of the largest providers of financial and clinical technology solutions in the United States, as well as a service provider for post-acute care facilities; Rycan provides revenue cycle management processes and automation software to hospitals, healthcare systems, and established care organizations.

Region: Virginia, USA

Founded in 2011, the company specializes in software sales and consulting services, aiming to help healthcare systems establish proprietary value-based care models. Evolent Health offers end-to-end, technology-enabled service platforms, including its Blueprint program and the Identifi® data analytics platform.

The company deploys physicians and clinical experts to identify pathways for improving hospital health services and leverages advanced data analytics to better assess patients’ disease risks. It also assigns management consultants to partner hospitals, assisting healthcare institutions in establishing their own health insurance plans. By facilitating population health management, the company enhances service quality, and by controlling disease risks, it reduces healthcare costs.

Region: Kansas, USA

Netsmart is a leading provider of technology, services, and expertise, standing as the largest human services and integrated care technology company in healthcare. The company serves over 500,000 users across more than 24,000 organizations in all 50 U.S. states, delivering community-based healthcare services for behavioral health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, addiction, and autism, as well as child and family services. Its core product, CareRecords electronic health records (EHR), connects the communities it serves to the broader healthcare ecosystem and helps patients break the continuous cycle of relapse, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations.

Region: Tennessee, USA

The company’s solutions are contracted by U.S. healthcare organizations for employee development, training and learning management, talent management, certification, preferential treatment programs, and more. The company helps these institutions address challenges to care quality arising from demographic shifts and government regulations across the continuum from hospitals to long-term care, thereby strengthening revenue cycle management, accelerating care transformation, and improving retention rates. Its product, EchoAnalytics--Measuring, analyzes vendor performance.

Region: Tennessee, USA

M Modal boasts world-class resources in the following areas: clinical transcription services, clinical documentation workflow solutions, cloud-based Speech Understanding™ speech recognition technology, and unstructured data analytics.

Cloud-based clinical documentation solutions connect workflows to enable efficient and accurate speech recognition, medical transcription, comprehensive report indexing, and coding. Front-end speech recognition solutions provide flexible and efficient comprehensive documentation of medical records, improving the quality of clinical documentation and optimizing user experience while eliminating transcription costs and reducing transcription turnaround times. Its imaging solution offers a smart approach to diagnostic imaging practice and supports the American College of Radiology’s Imaging 3.0™ initiative by ensuring complete documentation of voice-driven reports.

Region: California, USA

Founded in 1997, eHealth is the largest private health insurance company in the United States, offering thousands of individual, family, and small business health plans. The company’s e-commerce technology enables it to electronically submit consumer health insurance applications to health insurance carriers, thereby streamlining and optimizing the complex, traditionally paper-intensive processes for selling and purchasing health insurance.

In addition, through e-health technologies, the company provides a suite of e-commerce solutions that enable health plan providers and resellers to market and distribute health insurance products online. It also develops robust pharmacy-based tools to help seniors navigate Medicare health insurance options.

Region: Shanghai, China

Winning Health Technology Group Co., Ltd. (formerly Shanghai Kingstar Winning Software Co., Ltd.) was established in 1994 and is the first listed company in China dedicated to healthcare informatization. Its products cover a wide range of areas, including medical services, public health services, medical insurance services, drug regulation services, primary healthcare services, regional health platforms, and wireless applications, providing professional information technology solutions for the healthcare industry.

Winning Health introduces fresh internet-driven vitality into the healthcare industry. Its “Internet + Health Services” “4+1” strategy encompasses five components: Cloud Medicine, Cloud Wellness, Cloud Insurance, Cloud Pharmacy, and an Innovation Service Platform, establishing an integrated online-offline healthcare information service system that unifies four dimensions: medical care, pharmaceuticals, health management, and insurance.

Region: Tennessee, USA

MEDHOST is a health information technology company founded in 1984. Its healthcare management systems include hosted or on-premise integrated clinical and financial solutions that help streamline billing, manage electronic health data, and improve workflow efficiency. Additionally, it delivers healthcare services through health and wellness websites, patient portals, condition management applications, and analytics platforms, with applications extending to emergency departments, operating suites, inpatient units, and administrative areas.

In 2015, MEDHOST launched the healthcare engagement platform YourCareUniverse, which enables hospitals to better understand their communities, enhance patient education, and conduct more effective marketing campaigns.

Region: Florida, USA

SCC Soft Computer is a world leader in software development for laboratories, genetics, blood services, and outreach information systems, providing comprehensive solutions for networked laboratory and genetic information management systems.

CC Soft Computer’s solution (SoftLab) delivers quantifiable improvements in clinical outcomes, workflow efficiency, and return on investment. Combined with its advanced integration capabilities, SoftLab is deployed in many of the world’s large, sophisticated hospitals and laboratories.

SoftLab is a leading laboratory information system that optimizes laboratory efficiency. It also provides healthcare institutions with services such as multi-site integration, patient and administrative reporting, and sample tracking.

Region: Alabama, USA

DST Systems, commonly known as DST, was founded in February 1969. It is a company that provides consulting, technology, and operational outsourcing services to the financial and healthcare industries. DST offers business services in two primary areas: financial services solutions, including alternatives, analytics, banking, brokerage, communications, compliance, distribution, fund services, insurance, wealth management, process management, and retirement services; and healthcare services, covering health plans, healthcare organizations, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Region: Ohio, USA

Hyland, a software company, offers a comprehensive suite of professional services, including data conversion, ECM consulting, training, and document imaging services, enabling customers to maximize their existing technology investments. OnBase, its enterprise content management (ECM) solution, is one of the most flexible ECM products on the market today, allowing users to scale their solutions in response to evolving needs and business growth. It not only meets current requirements but also adapts to the changing demands of companies as they develop over time.

OnBase deeply integrates document imaging, workflow, and business process management capabilities with features specifically built and delivered by experts with industry-specific knowledge in financial services, government, healthcare, higher education, insurance, manufacturing, retail, and wholesale distribution. Additionally, Hyland’s ShareBase is a cloud-based enterprise sharing solution that provides secure cloud sharing services while enabling organizations to retain ownership and control over their data.

Region: Auckland, New Zealand

Orion Health Ltd. is a provider of healthcare information integration platform solutions. Founded in 1993, the company offers the world-leading Rhapsody software platform and EHR (Electronic Health Record) software products. By providing healthcare data integration through a clean and consistent interface, it enhances patient care and clinical decision-making while reducing errors and omissions caused by streamlined information transformation. Clinical databases and clinical information portals are also widely adopted.

Orion Health’s Amadeus precision medicine big data platform has been successfully implemented. Built on the Cassandra NoSQL database—a solution also adopted by Apple and other companies—the platform offers strong openness and scalability. To date, Orion Health has provided its health information integration solutions to approximately 200 medical institutions and regional health information platforms in China.

Region: Wisconsin, USA

Nordic Consulting Partners provides electronic health record (EHR) consulting services to healthcare organizations using Epic software, specializing in Epic system operations, optimization, remote support, and Connect project consulting. Mark Bakken is the company’s co-founder and CEO. Its consulting solutions offer guidance in several areas, including pre-implementation planning, revenue cycle optimization, clinical transformation, executive leadership, population health, and data analytics.

Nordic’s membership solutions are industry-leading, extending Epic to relevant physician practices and enabling rapid operationalization of acquired sites. These optimized solutions unlock the full potential of the Epic system through comprehensive enhancements and targeted interventions, delivering cost savings for clients via ROI-driven innovative approaches and deep industry expertise.

Region: Maryland, USA

Imprivata is an IT security company founded in 2002 that develops and markets the OneSign platform, which safeguards employee access to desktops, networks, and applications through single sign-on (SSO). Imprivata’s customer base is primarily drawn from the healthcare industry.

Imprivata OneSign helps enterprises manage user access and authentication. Feedback on the product indicates that OneSign enables organizations to enable single sign-on for all enterprise applications without the need for custom scripting or modifications to existing directories. OneSign also strengthens user authentication for desktops and networks by replacing passwords with a range of authentication options, including fingerprint biometrics, proximity cards, smart cards, multi-national ID cards, one-time password tokens, and employee physical location.

Region: California, USA

Vocera Communications, founded by Dr. Rob Shostak, co-founder of the Paradox database system, provides communication technologies for wireless local area networks supporting the IEEE 802.11b standard. One of its products is the Vocera Communication Badge. The badge features hands-free, wearable, lightweight, and voice-controlled capabilities, making it a leading product used in clinical communication and workflow platforms. The Vocera platform can integrate with more than 120 clinical and operational systems to meet users’ information needs. To communicate with others, simply press the badge to locate them (smart call routing makes this easy). During calls, the badge can be placed at the patient’s bedside without being held, thereby preserving greater patient privacy, similar to a mobile phone.

Region: Florida, United States

Availity is a healthcare technology services company founded in 2001 by Humana and Blue Cross and Blue Shield. InformationWeek described Availity as “a company specializing in the electronic processing of web-based, real-time healthcare transactions.” The company focuses on information exchange among healthcare providers, insurers, and other stakeholders.

Healthcare providers can use Availity’s web portal free of charge, while insurers pay per transaction. The service is entirely internet-based, aiming to reduce physicians’ administrative burden and improve the efficiency of the healthcare system. Meanwhile, the company processes approximately one billion information exchanges annually between healthcare providers and insurers.

Region: Kansas, USA

Mediware, a healthcare software provider, is dedicated to delivering high-quality care services to consumers. The company integrates forward-looking experiences into its software solutions, helping clients improve cost control, productivity, quality, safety, and service.

The solution portfolio includes blood services, cell therapy, pharmaceutical services, home care services, home nursing, and home infusion reimbursement services. More than 500 experts specialize in home care services, regulatory changes, care processes, and best business practices. Looking ahead, the company aims to further integrate its services with new software solutions and provide interoperable services to healthcare providers, systems, medical organizations, and government agencies worldwide.

Region: California, USA

Founded in 2008, Castlight Health is a price-comparison platform that provides consumers with personalized and highly transparent information, continuously helping employers save on medical costs and insurance expenses. Dr. Giovanni Colella is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Castlight Health.

Castlight’s application is built on the cloud, with a cloud-based database of over 1 billion health insurance transaction records at its core.

By integrating this database with information on corporate medical insurance benefits, hospital clinical guidelines, and user-generated behavioral data, cloud computing is leveraged to develop cost-effective healthcare solutions tailored to corporate needs. This approach significantly streamlines the optimization process for selecting healthcare plans and prevents unnecessary expenditures caused by a lack of information transparency.

On January 5, Castlight Health acquired Jiff, another digital health benefits platform.

Region: Texas, USA

Encore provides top-tier industry experts in the healthcare market, who possess specialized knowledge of major clinical and commercial applications within the sector. They support vendors with technology planning, implementation, and adoption, helping clients leverage IT to improve patient care quality and reduce care costs.

It primarily provides advisory services in the following areas: optimal coordination strategies, optimal implementation systems, optimal application analysis, and maximal realization of clinical data value. The company translates these services into value through performance improvement, care coordination, and enhanced population health management.

Region: Kentucky, USA

ZirMed, founded in 1999, is a leading provider of healthcare information management solutions. It developed Hadoop clusters to run HDP sensors on Windows 2.0 systems. The company leverages cloud-based revenue cycle management products to manage complex billing and collect payments from patients and payers.

The company’s products enable providers to verify patient eligibility, submit and track claims, process payments from both patients and payers, and facilitate, manage, and analyze clinical and financial communications. By aggregating its network data, ZirMed has created a national healthcare payment information database to help providers reduce administrative burdens and drive patient engagement.

Region: Pennsylvania, USA

Founded in 1988, Medecision, one of China’s leading health management companies, has developed Aerial™, a population health management solution. Each of its software applications and tools is built on a flexible, cohesive, and sophisticated SaaS platform.

From fee-for-service to value-based care organizations, all can leverage Aerial’s population health management solutions to optimize their Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). Aerial’s services cover health plans, government programs, hospitals, physician groups, and accountable care organizations.

Region: Massachusetts, United States

Spok (formerly AmeriCom Wireless Communications and Amcom Software), a leader in clinical communication solutions, delivers clinical information to care teams, informing them of the time and location critical to patient outcomes. Top hospitals rely on the Spok Care Connect® platform to enhance clinician workflow efficiency and support seamless operations.

Customers send over 100 million messages per month via the Spok® solution. Spok has established multiple channels to gather direct customer feedback, which informs the company’s product vision and strategy. Its Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Negotiation Officer conduct regular focus groups with clinicians to assess ongoing clinical needs in today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment.

Region: U.S. State

Practice Fusion is a web-based electronic health record (EHR) company, founded in 2005 and privately owned and operated by Practice Fusion, Inc. of San Francisco. This SaaS startup provides physicians and healthcare professionals with free, ad-supported electronic health records (EHR) and medical practice management technologies, including charting, scheduling, e-prescribing (eRx), medical billing, laboratory and imaging center integration, referrals, Meaningful Use certification, training, support, and personal health records.

The core product, Insight by Practice Fusion, is an analytics solution built on a fused dataset of 81 million medical records. Its real-time data provides insights into clinical trends, facilitating population health management and clinical decision support.

Region: Alabama, United States

Founded in 2000, Source Medical Solutions provides ambulatory surgery and treatment software, outpatient information solutions, and revenue cycle management services to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), specialty hospitals, and rehabilitation clinics in the United States. Its ASC software solutions manage scheduling, registration, clinical documentation, and electronic health records (EHRs). Its treatment software products include billing, clinical documentation, reporting, and scheduling software. Its specialty hospital software products encompass both administrative and clinical software.

The company also offers additional products and services, such as claims and supply chain management, automated payment posting, revenue cycle management, integrated transcription, patient satisfaction and quality benchmarking, performance specialist programs, telephysician scheduling, and source advantage training.