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Vendors & Products
Approaches TO EHR User Interface
This page highlights
five different approaches to EHRs as explained in the table below.
| Type |
General Characteristics of EHR Product |
Type of Data Structuring |
Typical Vendor Example |
| Template/Pick List |
Touchscreens, problems lists, templates; forces data into a form that
allows retrieval of meaningful reports. |
Data is structured to billing levels, and often structured via Medcin or Snomed to medical diagnostic levels. |
To many to list here |
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| Document Scanning/OCR/ICR/NLP |
Should capture scanned images and automatically classify
and index data. |
Data is unstructured, but may be structured after dictation by NLP technology. This is done by only a few vendors. Normally dictated data is unstructured and difficult to query thereafter. |
eDOMA for Healthcare -DOMA Technologies
Holt Data Systems
Optio Healthcare Quick Record Suite -Optio Software, Inc.
SRS Chart Manager - SRS Technologies
Wellness Connection - BlueWare |
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| Handwriting/OCR/NLP |
A form is provided into which a provider writes the data using a stylus or special pen. The data is then converted by handwriting engine to text, and the record stored in the text format. |
Data is unstructured, but may be structured after dictation by NLP technology. This is done by only a few vendors. If the system uses FORMS and the form fields are mapped to specific data elements, some level of structuring is provided. Normally dictated data is unstructured and difficult to query thereafter. |
AdvantaChart AdvantaChart
Amazing Charts Amazing Charts
AutoMedicWorks AutoMedicWorks
Brunmed Medscribbler Lite
CPSI CPSI System
CureMD CureMD EHR
Database Constructs Med-Center
DavLong Business Solutions MedInformatix
Doc-U-Chart Doc-U-Chart for the Tablet PC
Integritas STIX
Kietra Corporation Kietra XPR for Clinicians
Meditab Software, Inc. Intelligent Medical Software
ObTech ObGynPocketPro
Poseidon Group Navigator Web
PracticeXpert Xpert EHR
QuadraMed QuadraMed EHR |
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| Hybrid Combinations |
Some systems allow combinations of the above input types. Be aware that these systems have one foundational input type onto which the other have been grafted. Most are Template/Pick List approches that allow other input modalities to capture specific subsets of data. |
The structuring depends on the design of the system, and generally is no better than the primary or foundational method upon which the multiple input modalities are grafted. |
Asarum PM AcerMed (Out of the Market)
Achieve Matrix Achieve Healthcare
AdvancedEMR AdvancedMD
EKiosk AutomationMed
ScriptSure Daw Systems
Sunrise Eclipsys Corporation
INTERACTANT Health Care Software
Health Probes Professional Health Probe
IMBILLS Ingenious Med
accessANYware LanVision dba Streamline Health
Login EMR LoginClinic, Inc.
Horizon Ambulatory Care McKesson
MedAZ MedAZ
Medical Office Online Medical Office Online
OpenVista Medsphere
Misys Homecare Misys Healthcare
Momentum Healthware Care Management Momentum Healthware
document scanning service MRVIEW
OpenChart Point and Click Solutions
Practice Partner Practice Partner/McKesson
eIVF PracticeHWY.com
easychart Software Performance Specialists, Inc
SpringCharts EHR Spring Medical Systems
ChartKeeper Express VantageMed
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For additional data on 104 EHR developers, see the MSP 2850 or MSP 2851 Reports derived from the Andrew & Associates EHR Benchmark
The next
table features some of the awards that were given to EHR vendors. MSP does not
endorse these awards as the criteria used for judging as the products may not
be open and transparent. Also, not every EHR vendor enters these competitions.
For the MSP Reality EHR Selector™, MSP does not take awards into consideration
but offers a different approach; we validate that what the vendor says the product
will do is what it actually does and match their product characteristics against the need specifications that each user asserts to the selector.
| Category |
2007 TEPR AWARDS FINALISTS |
2007 Best in KLAS Awards |
| Document Imaging in Healthcare |
- 1st Honors: Medical Communication Systems
- 2nd Honors: BlueWare, Inc.
- 3rd Honors: eMedRec by Holt Systems
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| E-Prescriptioin
Management Systems |
- 1st Honors: Purkinje
- 2nd Honors: Misys Healthcare
- 3rd Honors: Allscripts
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Mobile Applications for Healthcare |
- 1st Honors: PatientKeeper
- 2nd Honors: Medical Communication Systems
- 3rd Honors: e-MDs, Inc.
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Personal Health Records |
- 1st Honors: CapMed
- 2nd Honors: Waiting Room Solutions
- 3rd Honors: Medical Communication Systems
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Continuity of Care |
- 1st Honors: (TIE) Medical Communications Systems, Inc. & e-MDs
- 2nd Honors: Solventus
- 3rd Honors: Allscripts
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Pediatric EHR |
- 1st Honors: (TIE) Bond & Medical Communication Systems
- 2nd Honors: e-MDs, Inc
- 3rd Honors: (TIE) Office Practicum & Practice Partner
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Hot Products in HIT |
- 1st Honors: Phytel, Inc.
- 2nd Honors: Sage Software
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EHR is also about connectivity. Some healthcare providers who have led the way in connectivity include: New Orleans Health Department; Pediatric Health Care at Newton Wellesley, MA; Northern Illinois Physicians for Connectivity &
Yuil Medical Center, Lawrence, MA.
Updated 1/16/2008
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