Why is KLAS Studying Emerging Technology?

Separating Fact from Fiction

Each week, dozens of new companies are knocking on the doors of provider organizations and health systems. Leaders of provider organizations of all sizes are reporting more noise than ever before in this market for healthcare start-ups and innovation.

This leaves providers with more questions than answers. Which companies are legitimate? What problems are they trying to solve? Which tools could be effective at my organization for driving real tangible outcomes and results? Who are the vendor’s customers, and are they getting the promised and expected results? How long does it take to achieve an ROI?

As an unbiased third party, KLAS will do the legwork to validate these new companies so that providers can be informed, understand reality, and know what their peers are achieving through innovation. KLAS will attempt, in essence, to separate fact from fiction. We want to identify emerging companies that are solving real healthcare problems in innovative ways as part of the overarching KLAS mission to improve the world’s healthcare.

There are thousands of new HCIT companies every year. With help from our generous provider friends, health system innovation centers, and others, we will identify those new companies and technologies that are worth a deeper look.

This is the mission and purpose of this new initiative called KLAS etech INSIGHT.

etech INSIGHT Solutions

KLAS will be bringing multiple etech INSIGHT solutions to the market to provide clarity, differentiation, and truth to the provider community. Some of those offerings include the following:

• etech INSIGHT First Looks: early thought-leadership articles on an emerging market segment or technology which may be too early to be validated.
• Emerging HCIT Markets and Companies Digests: digest-style reports of the most frequently mentioned, top of mind, and hottest emerging healthcare IT markets and companies.
• KLAS etech Spotlights: brief market research reports on a single company/technology with the purpose of informing and educating the provider community on the experiences of early customers/validated results being achieved and useful, important information about the company.
• KLAS etech Summits: emerging companies have the opportunity bring their fresh perspectives and voices to KLAS Summits to drive definitions, frameworks, and progress in specific healthcare segments
• etech INSIGHT Media Hub: Podcasts with new company CEOs who have fresh ideas and angles into innovation.

Entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries are already racing to deliver and implement technology that can solve the many transformational challenges across the healthcare landscape. KLAS etech INSIGHT aims to give these thought leaders and groups a boost—and a resource that will help validate the real results within the noise. By combining ideas, efforts, and transparency, the best minds in HCIT will be able to drive innovative and effective solutions faster than ever before.