Leveraging Existing Technologies for Electronic Health Records (Technology Focus)

Table of Contents

• DATAMONITOR VIEW
  • CATALYST
  • SUMMARY
• ANALYSIS
  • The immense benefits of EHRs are trumped only by their high costs
    • EHR adoption will be inevitable due to internal as well as external factors
    • Cost is the most significant, but not the only, barrier to adoption
    • EHR technologies are evolving
  • No need to reinvent the wheel: EHR technologies are already available in other industries
    • An EHR is essentially an Enterprise Content Management solution
    • EHRs will shift from an on-premise software towards a software as a service model
    • For most providers, today' s off-the-shelf EHRs are more than sufficient for their needs
  • As EHRs become more advanced, they will require solutions from multiple vendors
    • Basic EHRs will turn paper-based offices into electronic ones
    • Mid-level EHRs will have additional "accessories"
    • Advanced EHRs will be intelligent and shared
• ACTIONS
  • EHR vendors should extend the functionality of their solutions through partnerships
  • Vendors must work towards interoperability or be left behind
  • EHRs should focus on key capabilities, not extraneous features, and value
• APPENDIX
  • Abbreviations
  • Methodology
  • Further reading
  • Ask the analyst
  • Datamonitor consulting
  • Disclaimer
  • List of Figures
    • Figure 1: A framework for understanding the evolution of EHR functionality and adoption