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KLAS Articles - 2022

Get Answers to Tough Questions with Empower Insights at KLAS

Get Answers to Tough Questions with Empower Insights at KLAS

14 Dec 22 by Emily Paxman

Our Empower Insights teams support healthcare provider organizations and vendors through four paths, each tailored to your needs.

Introducing Landmark Insights

Introducing Landmark Insights

13 Dec 22 by Jeremy Goff and Ryan Oliver

Our new service, Landmark Insights, is KLAS’ answer to providing key stakeholders with much-needed visibility into implementation processes.

Updates in the Small Practice Ambulatory Market 2022

Updates in the Small Practice Ambulatory Market 2022

1 Dec 22 by Aaron Gleave and Alex McIntosh

Small practices make up a significant portion of outpatient care in the US. The 2022 Small Practice Ambulatory report is an updated overview of this market.

A Push Toward Post–Acute Care Enterprise EMR Platforms

A Push Toward Post–Acute Care Enterprise EMR Platforms

21 Nov 22 by Paul Hess

Among the many post–acute care vendors in the market today, there are four who have separated themselves from the rest of the pack. A recent KLAS report examines those four vendors’ solutions.

Changes in Cardiology 2022

Changes in Cardiology 2022

9 Nov 22 by Monique Rasband and Sidney Tate

The Cardiology 2022 report goes beyond traditional KLAS data in this area to take a deeper look at the breadth of customer-reported structured reporting adoption.

Building a Culture of Cybersecurity in Your Health System

Building a Culture of Cybersecurity in Your Health System

1 Nov 22 by Kaleb Harris

Several security and privacy firms gave advice on the following question: How can health systems and payers continually boost their culture around cybersecurity?

A Third-Party Focus in Middle East Telehealth

A Third-Party Focus in Middle East Telehealth

27 Oct 22 by Everton Santos and Jonathan Christensen

The Middle East Telehealth report is a preliminary report that encapsulates what KLAS currently sees happening in the telehealth market for the Middle East.

Some Security and Privacy Consulting Firms Exceeding Expectations

Some Security and Privacy Consulting Firms Exceeding Expectations

26 Oct 22 by Ciera Walker and Kaleb Harris

This recent report examines several security and privacy firms to determine who effectively helps their provider customers reduce risk.

Learning about Provider Investment Strategies: A KLAS-Bain Report

Learning about Provider Investment Strategies: A KLAS-Bain Report

17 Oct 22 by KLAS Research and Bain & Company

A new report, co-created by KLAS Research and Bain & Company takes a deeper look at provider investment strategies in this post-pandemic market.

Digging Into Post–Acute Care Technology Research

Digging Into Post–Acute Care Technology Research

4 Oct 22 by Paul Hess

We are making some strides in researching post–acute care that we hope will make a difference for the patients who receive care, the healthcare providers who give it, and the vendors who are working to provide the best technologies to aid healthcare providers in their work.

Discussing Tools for Patient-Centered Care

Discussing Tools for Patient-Centered Care

22 Sep 22 by Sharlin Bird

As part of the recent Arch Collaborative Learning Summit, we held a panel addressing this topic and the tools some organizations use as part of their patient-centered care strategies.

Evaluating EMR Vendors’ Virtual Care Offerings

Evaluating EMR Vendors’ Virtual Care Offerings

22 Sep 22 by Aaron Gleave and Alex McIntosh

Virtual care, in particular, has been an incredibly dynamic market in the past two years—from its relative disuse before COVID-19 to its boom at the beginning of the pandemic to its current era of consolidation.

Digital Health Investment Symposium 2022 Recap

Digital Health Investment Symposium 2022 Recap

20 Sep 22 by Justin Long

Last week, KLAS was privileged to host our annual Digital Health Investment Symposium (DHIS) in Park City, Utah. In a day and a half, the attendees were able to accomplish a lot as they came together.

Why KLAS Is Doing an Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report

Why KLAS Is Doing an Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report

20 Sep 22 by Kyle Chilton

KLAS has done more than 130 Emerging Technology reports in the last three years, and we are planning to expand our research to give providers a more in-depth look at what is available to them

An Active Year in the Global (Non-US) EMR Market

An Active Year in the Global (Non-US) EMR Market

31 Aug 22 by Everton Santos and Jonathan Christensen

In 2021, healthcare systems everywhere were still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the many challenges that came with that, many regions had an active year for EMR purchases.

eTech Insight – Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance Launched

eTech Insight – Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance Launched

31 Aug 22 by Mike Davis

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the chasm between the haves and have nots in US healthcare. Many ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of sickness and death from COVID-19.

Exploring Regional Data in the European PACS Market

Exploring Regional Data in the European PACS Market

31 Aug 22 by Sidney Tate and Eder Lagemann

Within the European market, there is a desire to advance healthcare technology in general. Many healthcare organizations are also pushing for more consolidated systems.

How KLAS Supports Caregivers of Children with Disabilities

How KLAS Supports Caregivers of Children with Disabilities

29 Aug 22 by Emily Hoff

One of the hardest things about being a caregiver of a person with a disability is how isolating the experience can be.

Outcomes and Questions in the Telehealth Performance Report

Outcomes and Questions in the Telehealth Performance Report

24 Aug 22 by Ciera Walker and Schafer Jackson

At KLAS, we want to better understand what customers’ experiences are like and the outcomes they see with their various telehealth platforms. Our recent Telehealth Performance 2022 report analyzes recent provider feedback on these solutions.

Highlights and Next Steps from the Arch Collaborative Learning Summit 2022

Highlights and Next Steps from the Arch Collaborative Learning Summit 2022

18 Aug 22 by Connor Bice

About one-third of the presentations were co-presented by healthcare organizations and their vendors and service firms. This year we encouraged service firms and third-party vendors to present if they'd done something successful with an Arch Collaborative member.

Home Is Where the Healthcare Is: Remote Patient Monitoring

Home Is Where the Healthcare Is: Remote Patient Monitoring

11 Aug 22 by Schafer Jackson and Ciera Walker

From a healthcare perspective, there is a focus on meeting patients where they are, and with adapting technologies, providers can have increased perspectives on patient health day to day.

Advice on Staffing and Turnover – Arch Collaborative Learning Summit 2022

Advice on Staffing and Turnover – Arch Collaborative Learning Summit 2022

5 Aug 22 by Sharlin Bird

KLAS data is helping UCSF Health understand their needs, and his chief nursing informatics officer also had a great idea to create clinician informatics champions across the organization.

eTech Insight—Alexa Together Continues to Advance Home Care Functionality

eTech Insight—Alexa Together Continues to Advance Home Care Functionality

1 Aug 22 by Mike Davis

The boomer generation will test the capacity and flexibility of the existing US healthcare system over the next two decades. By 2030, Medicare is expected to cost approximately $259.8 billion.

Empowering Neurodiversity at KLAS

Empowering Neurodiversity at KLAS

26 Jul 22 by Chloe Jensen and Ciera Walker

In essence, neurodiversity highlights the natural differences in the ways people think. People tend to assume that their experiences are the default, but in reality, there are countless ways to process the same event.

New Possibilities in Drug Diversion Monitoring

New Possibilities in Drug Diversion Monitoring

22 Jul 22 by Jackson Tate and Jennifer Hickenlooper

Though the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major focus for the past few years, drug diversion is still a pressing problem for healthcare organizations. This can potentially involve lawsuits, federal fines, and the loss of expensive drugs.

Empowering Mental Health and Wellness at KLAS

Empowering Mental Health and Wellness at KLAS

22 Jul 22 by Lindsi Neilson

As someone who has struggled with mental illness since the age of 15, I thought I had everything nailed—my triggers, my coping mechanisms, and the rest of the tool kit that I had carefully added to over years of work and therapy.

A Review of the 2022 International Summit

A Review of the 2022 International Summit

21 Jul 22 by Jeremy Goff

KLAS hosted our International Summit in Portugal and brought together healthcare IT leaders from at least 15 countries. They collectively shared their experiences, sought advice, and had important conversations.

Analyzing Patient Perspectives on Engagement Technology

Analyzing Patient Perspectives on Engagement Technology

15 Jul 22 by Dan Czech and Adam Cherrington

Though the patient perspective was an important discussion before, the pandemic further highlighted a huge need to listen better to patients and to learn from their point of view.

eTech Insight – Universal Language Translators Will Improve Healthcare Services

eTech Insight – Universal Language Translators Will Improve Healthcare Services

15 Jul 22 by Mike Davis

New translator services from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google may improve language interpretation use and integration with EHRs, which help to reduce interpreter costs and improve provider access for these services.

Renewing Connection at the Enterprise Imaging Summit

Renewing Connection at the Enterprise Imaging Summit

14 Jul 22 by Monique Rasband and Sidney Tate

The summit’s content addressed several topics. These topics included sensitive images, image exchange, enterprise imaging, and what the enterprise imaging landscape looks like now and will look like in the future of our post-pandemic world.

What to Know about the 2022 Arch Collaborative Learning Summit

What to Know about the 2022 Arch Collaborative Learning Summit

23 Jun 22 by Connor Bice

The Arch Collaborative Learning Summit 2022 will be taking place in late July. This event represents the best Collaborative opportunity that KLAS can support.

A Fresh Start at the 2022 Payer/Provider Summit

A Fresh Start at the 2022 Payer/Provider Summit

16 Jun 22 by Lois Krotz and Boyd Stewart

Our overarching goal with this summit was to reduce administrative friction and waste, improving the patient or member experience. We feel like we were able to achieve all those things this year.

Insights on Being a Healthcare Leader After the Pandemic

Insights on Being a Healthcare Leader After the Pandemic

7 Jun 22 by Sharlin Bird

This panel, hosted by the Millennium Alliance and moderated by Taylor Davis, was an assembly on how to be a leader in the healthcare world after the pandemic.

KLAS International Summit 2022- The Forum for Global Healthcare IT Leaders

KLAS International Summit 2022- The Forum for Global Healthcare IT Leaders

7 Jun 22 by Dan Linsalata & Thierry Monjauze

The KLAS International Summit, an event in Europe where global healthcare IT stakeholders meet for in-depth discussions on key topics of interest in the industry, including essential trends and opportunities.

eTech Insight – Improving AI Success with Accelerators and Incubators

eTech Insight – Improving AI Success with Accelerators and Incubators

3 Jun 22 by Mike Davis

In many cases, AI solutions are well intended but poorly designed to effectively resolve the operational issues that provider organizations will face or are currently facing.

Empowering the LGBTQ+ Community at KLAS

Empowering the LGBTQ+ Community at KLAS

27 May 22 by Kyle Chilton

Full-time employees typically spend almost a third of their lives at work. With that in mind, KLAS wants to create a work environment where employees feel safe enough to bring their whole selves to work.

eTech Insight—Will Synthetic Data Revolutionize Data Sharing and AI?

eTech Insight—Will Synthetic Data Revolutionize Data Sharing and AI?

26 May 22 by Mike Davis

Several healthcare projects are attempting to build large data repositories of de-identified patient data to advance healthcare data analytics and associated AI deep learning models and algorithms.

A Preview of the 2022 International Summit

A Preview of the 2022 International Summit

23 May 22 by Jeremy Goff

This exclusive event will comprise about 120 notable healthcare IT leaders from 15 or more countries in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and even as far as Australia.

eTech Insight – Advocacy Group for Hospital at Home Emerges

eTech Insight – Advocacy Group for Hospital at Home Emerges

13 May 22 by Mike Davis

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the US healthcare system’s ability to meet patients' acute care demands with limited or full bed capacities at many provider facilities.

Seeing the Big Picture in the US Hospital Market Share Report

Seeing the Big Picture in the US Hospital Market Share Report

11 May 22 by Tyson Blauer and Paul Warburton

As we dig into the data from the US Hospital Market Share report, we see quite a few interesting stories surrounding some of the vendors in this space.

eTech Insight – Frictionless Shopping Alternatives Will Improve Healthcare Services

eTech Insight – Frictionless Shopping Alternatives Will Improve Healthcare Services

6 May 22 by Mike Davis

Voice recognition engines made by large technology companies are advancing to be very accurate when it comes to dealing with different dialects.

Empowering Women at KLAS

Empowering Women at KLAS

3 May 22 by Samantha Kemp and Brittani Oliver

Since these groups were formed, women at KLAS have felt better prepared and more confident to ask for raises and promotions, and they have been heard.

eTech Insight – Resolving Quality Data Acquisition Issues for Analytics/AI

eTech Insight – Resolving Quality Data Acquisition Issues for Analytics/AI

28 Apr 22 by Mike Davis

Several healthcare data collaboration entities are emerging to assist healthcare organizations with acquiring larger data sets that will improve analytics and AI algorithms.

eTech Insight – Robots Assisting Nurses Will Become a Requirement for Providers

eTech Insight – Robots Assisting Nurses Will Become a Requirement for Providers

28 Mar 22 by Mike Davis

Robots that provide nursing assistance have been proven in several pioneering healthcare organizations. Providers should be creating prototype projects to test robots for their ability to improve nursing satisfaction.

The Power of Belonging at KLAS

The Power of Belonging at KLAS

24 Mar 22 by Matt Giacalone

Belong is my passion word. It is so important to me that the employees of our company feel they belong and that they can bring their authentic selves to work.

Coming Together to Solve Interoperability Challenges

Coming Together to Solve Interoperability Challenges

2 Mar 22 by Timothy R. Zoph

Years ago, when the healthcare IT industry was beginning to mature, interoperability was hardly even a concept. These days, it is essential. The government requires it; our clinicians and patients expect it.

eTech Insight – EHR Integration Will Determine Telehealth Winners for Providers

eTech Insight – EHR Integration Will Determine Telehealth Winners for Providers

24 Feb 22 by Mike Davis

Approximately 260 telehealth companies exist at this time driven by irrational exuberance by investors who apparently don’t understand there is no significant differentiating technology factors between all of these products.

eTech Insight – Alexa Supports Virtual Senior Living and Family Collaborative Healthcare

eTech Insight – Alexa Supports Virtual Senior Living and Family Collaborative Healthcare

28 Jan 22 by Mike Davis

The Boomer generation continues to age and all will be 65 years of age or older by 2030. This will drive an increased need for caregiver and health services that will strain our healthcare system and economies.

The Past, Present and Future of KLAS International Work

The Past, Present and Future of KLAS International Work

28 Jan 22 by Jeremy Goff, Everton Santos and Eder Lagermann

Did you know that KLAS is an international company? For the past 10 years and counting, KLAS has been studying healthcare software all around the world, and our international work is one of our fastest growing areas.

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