KLAS: New Technique Driving the Digital Mammography Market

Hologic leads the digital imaging market

With its strong digital mammography product, which features the groundbreaking tomosynthesis imaging technique, Hologic has solidified its spot as top vendor in the space, according to a new KLAS study — Women’s Imaging 2012:Tomosynthesis Makes a Splash. The report found that tomosynthesis lives up to the hype in terms of its ability to detect lesions [...]

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KLAS: Electronic Record Growth Slow Outside the U.S.

International EMR market building, but slowly

Although there are plenty of vendors exploring the international space, the market for electronic patient records outside of the United States is still in the early stages, according to a new KLAS report — International EPR Market 2012: Multinational Vendor Footprints. The report, which is the first by KLAS to examine the global EMR market, [...]

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KLAS: With RTLS, It’s In The Way That You Use It

RTLS Valued By Those Who Use It

Though only 10 to 15 percent of the healthcare market is currently utilizing a real-time location system (RTLS) solution, 95 percent of them (ranging from facilities with 25 beds to large IDNs with thousands of beds), cite operational efficiency gains, according to a new KLAS report — Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) 2011: Maximizing the ROI. [...]

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Don’t Be Strangled By Process-Improvement Black Belts

Dale Sanders, CIO, National Health Services Authority, Cayman Islands

In ITIL, we healthcare CIOs are acting in predictable fashion by following the “Most Popular Practice” as opposed to the “Best Practice.” Before we pull the trigger on yet another silver bullet savior of process, I urge all of us to look closely at the contribution of burdensome process in the woes of Toyota…and GE…and [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: KLAS Says Vendors Grappling in Wild HIE Landscape

Near 40 Vendor Vie for HIE Dominance

Among 38 potential service providers, only five were considered in more than 10 percent of buying decisions, according to a new KLAS report “Health Information Exchanges: Perception in an Expanding Frontier.” Medicity was considered in 23 percent of HIE buying decisions, followed by Axolotl (22 percent), RelayHealth (16 percent), ICA (11 percent) and Epic (11 percent) — though at this point Epic is strongly considered only for Epic-to-Epic connections, according to KLAS.

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