Black Book Rankings Top Twenty Large Hospital EMR Software Vendors

Black Book Rankings is an internationally acknowledged firm for their accurate, reliable, extensive, in-depth, impartial user/customer satisfaction surveys annually. These surveys are normally in the hundreds focused on vender comparisons and geared to support Government contractors, Vendors and other 30 industry groups.


In the year 2011, it carried out a four-month user poll survey on EMR (Electronic Medical Records) vendors. This survey was to show which vendors were giving their customers user support and which were the most favored among the customers.

Healthcare givers who have not yet implemented the EMR systems are the benefactors of the survey done since they get to know which EMR vendors give good service after sales. We all know that if the EMR has malfunctions, the healthcare giver does not suffer alone, if truth be told, the patients suffer more given that they will/may not receive proper healthcare. Therefore, these findings help in making informed decisions when it comes to vendor choices by investors, EMR users, quality minded vendors, media, and prospective buyers of EMR/EHR software.

Black Book Rankings ensures high service and product performance comparing vendors through customer experience using eighteen key performance indicators. Surveyed, were over 30,000 healthcare records professionals, administrators, hospital leaders in the IT arenas and physician practice in 2011. Hospital EMR users in each of the major three bed size classifications narrowed down an elite group of vendors. Over 400 qualified healthcare software vendors were on focus for comparison in this survey. This survey helps in saving of hundreds of dollars when it comes to vendor selection’s consultation fees.

The top EMR vendors for the three categories were:

  • For hospitals under 100 beds with best customer-experience: CPSI
  • For community hospitals 101-249 beds: Dell
  • For academic teaching hospitals and major medical centers 250+ beds: Dell

From this list, one can quickly observe that Dell is the leading healthcare software firm being on top on two categories.

The major area of interest is as listed below:

  • Implementation success
  • EMR functionalities - Certification-required
  • Functionalities of Administration
  • Documentation functionalities and Clinical workflow functionalities
  • The modules of e-Prescribing
  • Accountable care of organization data needs and
  • Health Information Exchange

Buy Now: 2011 Top Large Hospital & Academic Med Center EMR Software Vendors 250 Beds: BUYER REPORT (User Survey Conducted Q3 2010) were as follows. Healthcare givers all time favorite and taking the number one position was GE Healthcare. In no particular order, find below the list of the top healthcare software firms 2011

  1. GE HEALTHCARE
  2. FUTURE NET SYSTEMS
  3. HCS EMR
  4. EPIC
  5. CERNER
  6. CARE FUSION
  7. ALLSCRIPTS
  8. MEDITECH
  9. QUADRAMED
  10. PROGNOSIS
  11. NEXTGEN
  12. MICROSOFT
  13. SIEMENS
  14. MCKESSON
  15. KEANE
  16. WORLDVISTA EHR
  17. VERSASUITE
  18. UNI/CARE
  19. SAPPHIRE/INTRANEXUS
  20. ECLIPSYS