The market for bringing healthcare data from disparate sources into one view is growing by leaps, according to a new study from KLAS, a healthcare research firm based in Orem, Utah. The study notes that software giant Microsoft is rapidly expanding its footprint in what KLAS calls an emerging aggregation market.
Hospital information technology teams are turning to the aggregation of data to help frustrated clinicians, KLAS researchers say.
"In most cases, providers are choosing these solutions to put all relevant patient information at a doctor's fingertips," said Jeremy Bikman, executive vice president of research and strategy for KLAS. "However, other benefits like meeting reporting requirements, avoiding downtime and accessing information across care venues are also proving to be decision drivers."
KLAS researchers discuss aggregation solutions, which provide a single view of clinical data from disconnected systems, in a new report, "Beyond the CIS: Why are hospitals buying aggregation solutions?"
The report examines why healthcare providers are deploying aggregation solutions, whether those solutions are meeting expectations and which aggregation vendors are doing the best job delivering on the promised benefits.
The report profiles six leading vendors in the aggregation solution market - Carefx, dbMotion, Medicity, MEDSEEK, Microsoft and PatientKeeper - which together account for 85 contracted deployments. MEDSEEK enjoys the largest installed base among those 85 organizations, as well as the highest KLAS performance rating.
From a purely functional standpoint, dbMotion and Microsoft appear to be in one peer group, while Carefx, Medicity, MEDSEEK and PatientKeeper comprise another group, according to KLAS. Microsoft and dbMotion market platforms that are meant to replicate the databases from dozens of systems, nearly 100 for some healthcare organizations.
The other vendors have shown the ability to connect with a handful of primary and secondary systems, but as of yet have found challenges in branching out much further, KLAS reports.
