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Healthcare Management Consulting 2025
30 April 25    |   Kevin Huang and Warren Whitford
As the healthcare industry evolves, healthcare organizations often need strategic help to ensure operational success and better serve patients. Management consulting firms, with their wealth of expertise, are uniquely positioned to fulfill this need. KLAS’ Healthcare Management Consulting 2024 report shared which consulting needs were being prioritized by healthcare leaders. Building on last year’s findings, this report shares (1) the scope and type of validated healthcare management consulting (HMC) services provided by firms and (2) how firms perform—first examining the HMC market overall and then the six individual segments it comprises. The report is intended to help healthcare and payer organizations determine which firms may be best suited to meet their complex needs, with a particular focus on level of expertise, actionable deliverables, and outcomes.
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Healthcare AI Data Science Solutions 2025
04 March 25    |   Benjamin Cassity and Tyson Blauer
Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are rapidly evolving, and healthcare organizations are trying not to fall behind in the rush of progress. Many look to their data science vendors—either third party or EHR-specific—for guidance on how to deepen AI adoption and achieve greater outcomes. In this market, vendors do not directly compete, as customers use their solutions in unique ways. Based on feedback from healthcare and payer organizations, this report—an update to KLAS’ Healthcare AI 2024 report —shares how customers are using machine learning (ML) models within their data science solutions, what outcomes they are achieving, and how well their vendors are partnering to help them drive success.
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Revenue Cycle Analytics 2024
05 March 24    |   Dustin Cragun and Jaren Day
For revenue cycle leaders, it is critical to stay on top of trends in payer interactions and identify opportunities to address billing and collection inefficiencies. All healthcare organizations use RCM analytics solutions—their EHR offering, a third-party solution, or a combination of both—to comprehensively understand their RCM practices and glean actionable insights that can optimize revenue and inform decisions. Drawing from the experience of organizations using third-party tools that ingest data from multiple disparate sources, this report provides insights into the performance of three different solutions.
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Financial Improvement Consulting 2023
27 October 23    |   Robbie Bullough and Warren Whitford
Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented financial pressure; several macroeconomic factors—including the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and staffing shortages—have forced organizations to work around decreased revenues and increased costs. At this critical time, organizations are looking to consulting firms to help improve their financial performance and circumnavigate obstacles. KLAS’ 2020 Financial Improvement Consulting report examined how firms were providing guidance to healthcare organizations during the early months of the pandemic. Now, roughly three years later, this report offers an updated look at the types of work consulting firms are doing and the outcomes clients are achieving in this financially challenging environment.
White Paper
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How Services Firms Can Drive Successful Client Engagements 2023
04 October 23    |   Sam Eaquinto and Warren Whitford
In 2022, KLAS interviewed 27 HIT services firms with broad market experience, asking them about their best practices for driving successful client engagements. Drawing from those insights and correlating them with the KLAS performance data of high-performing firms, this study—part of KLAS’ Vendor Excellence series—looks at four critical areas firms should evaluate to ensure successful engagements: measurement of outcomes, sales and contracting, internal hiring and training, and engagement execution.
Decision Insights
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Safety, Risk & Compliance 2023
22 August 23    |   Brian Matsen and Jennifer Hickenlooper
For healthcare organizations, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of having a holistic and integrated solution for safety, risk, and compliance management. Purchase energy in this market is increasing as more organizations are looking for solutions to increase visibility into safety events and compliance, address potential risks, and enhance patient and staff safety. To better understand what factors are influencing purchase decisions and which vendors are seeing the most traction, this report examines 51 recent purchase decisions validated by KLAS between May 2021 and May 2023. For additional context, some satisfaction data from current customers is also included.
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MEDITECH Complete Look 2023
18 July 23    |   Paul Warburton and Tyson Blauer
When making a core HIT purchasing decision, healthcare organizations must take into account how prospective partners deliver across a variety of key technology areas. This MEDITECH Expanse “complete look” provides a high-level analysis of the key products that make up MEDITECH’s enterprise suite. (Other reports in the series do the same for Altera Digital Health [Allscripts] , Epic , Evident , and Oracle Health [Cerner] .) This report focuses on the core Expanse suite; data on MEDITECH’s MAGIC, C/S, and 6.x platforms is excluded.
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Oracle Health (Cerner) Complete Look 2023
18 July 23    |   Paul Warburton and Tyson Blauer
When making a core HIT purchasing decision, healthcare organizations must take into account how prospective partners deliver across a variety of key technology areas. This Oracle Health (Cerner) “complete look” provides a high-level analysis of the key products that make up Oracle Health’s enterprise suite. (Other reports in the series do the same for Altera Digital Health [Allscripts] , Epic , Evident , and MEDITECH .)
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Epic Complete Look 2023
18 July 23    |   Paul Warburton and Tyson Blauer
When making a core HIT purchasing decision, healthcare organizations must take into account how prospective partners deliver across a variety of key technology areas. This Epic “complete look” provides a high-level analysis of the key products that make up Epic’s enterprise suite. (Other reports in the series do the same for Altera Digital Health [Allscripts] , Evident , MEDITECH , and Oracle Health [Cerner] .)
Emerging Technology
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Qventus Solutions 2023
16 June 23    |   Braden Taylor and Niel Oscarson
Qventus Solutions aims to help healthcare organizations create and sustain operational improvements related to patient throughput and capacity optimization management. Qventus addresses operational issues and opportunities through automation, AI/machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics. Depending on organizational needs, the Qventus system can be implemented in perioperative, inpatient, emergency department, and/or command center settings. This report examines customers’ experiences and satisfaction with Qventus.
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Capacity Optimization Management 2023
27 April 23    |   Marcus Hadfield and Niel Oscarson
Operational limitations—such as staffing shortages, variable patient flow, and poor visibility into resource availability—can make it difficult for healthcare organizations to effectively manage their capacity, leading to volatile workloads that see resources either under- or overutilized. Some organizations are using capacity optimization management technology, which includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to collect data that can improve resource management, especially regarding the utilization of scarce assets like operating rooms, inpatient beds, and infusion centers. This report—KLAS’ first to focus on capacity optimization management—shares what technology is being used and what outcomes it is driving for customers.
Point of Light
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Points of Light 2023 Case Study 7
13 April 23    |   Aurene Wilford and Boyd Stewart
The provider and payer organizations in this collaboration recognized that progress in their population health and value-based care initiatives would not be possible without each organization having access to comprehensive patient and member data. Embracing their shared goal of enabling better managed care, the organizations worked with their technology partner to aggregate claims and clinical data and utilize analytics to gain insights into cost, utilization, quality, network, and performance metrics.
First Look
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Harris Affinity Decision Support Costing
09 December 22    |   Braden Taylor and Niel Oscarson
Healthcare organizations need accessible and accurate cost information to combat shrinking margins and assist in the transition to value-based care. By organizing clinical, supply chain, and reimbursement information into actionable costing data, Harris Affinity’s ADS Costing helps provider organizations understand utilization costs to make informed decisions and manage spending. This report examines the experiences of US and Canadian customers of ADS Costing.
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Financial Planning & Analysis 2022
06 December 22    |   Jaren Day and Niel Oscarson
Healthcare organizations are taking a new approach to planning and budgeting—moving away from static yearly budgets set by a financial team toward an agile, rolling approach that leverages data from multiple sources and involves non-finance personnel. This report provides an introduction on the two main financial planning and analysis vendors that organizations are using to support this change—Strata Decision Technology and Syntellis Performance Solutions. The following pages share customer insights on the solutions’ functionality and integration and how well the vendors help customers adopt tools to meet their budgeting needs.


KLAS Research Director - Niel Oscarson
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KLAS Research Director - Niel Oscarson




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