ARRA has been good to Allscripts, as evidenced by the results of its second quarter financials. The company expects to see even better numbers in the coming quarters as adoption and acceleration of health IT grows. Analysts agree that the incentives are driving adoption.
Who else are winners?
In a recently released KLAS survey, participating providers who implemented ambulatory EMRs from Epic, NextGen and athenahealth customers expressed the most confidence that they would meet the meaningful use criteria. That speaks to customer satisfaction, not necessarily an indication of increased bookings.
Amazing Charts, eClinicalWorks and e-MDs garnered some of the highest satisfaction scores for EHR systems in an informal survey of more than 2,000 family physician published by the journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Again, this doesn't speak to increased bookings. Ironically, in the same KLAS survey, Amazing Charts customers joined SRSsoft customers in feeling less confident of meeting the meaningful use criteria.
We'll have to wait to hear from other companies as they release their quarterly financial results to see who else has benefited from ARRA. Who do you think has won the lotto with ARRA? And do you think customer satisfaction correlates or will correlate to increased sales? Lastly, what is winning over new customers? If you have recently chosen an EHR system, it would be great to know what led to your choice.
Inquiring minds want to know. There's money on the table.
