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In an increasingly data-driven environment, healthcare business intelligence companies are offering hospitals the health IT tools they need to participate in value-based care, population health management, and operational analytics.

Business intelligence (BI) tools allow providers to glean actionable insights from large amounts of data and use those insights to improve a wide range of organizations processes, from performance management to workflow automation.

As the growing trend of hospital mergers and acquisitions looms over a quickly changing regulatory and reimbursement landscape, healthcare organizations are under strong pressure to adopt up-to-date EHRs and implement the latest health IT systems to maintain market share and meet care quality goals.

Business intelligence tools designed to extract insights from big data stores offer providers a way to monitor and improve their organization’s quality and cost efficiency. The following is a list, in alphabetical order, of the top healthcare business intelligence companies by implementation count, based on information from Definitive Healthcare. Acmeware, Inc.

Developed as a solution for MEDITECH’s Data Repository, Acmeware is designed to analyze large swaths of clinical data spanning years of healthcare delivery, including data gathered during physician visits, outpatient care, and inpatient stays. Acmeware also possesses the analytics capabilities to categorize and assess data for chronic disease management, care management, and financial performance modeling. The vendor currently works in tandem with MEDITECH to offer report development and support services for over 50 hospitals and health systems.

Datawatch

Datawatch specializes in self-service data preparation and complementary solutions for self-service analytics tools. The twenty-year-old vendor aims to provide organizational support to allow healthcare organizations to spend less time on data preparation and more on quality and cost improvements. Datawatch prioritizes simplifying the process of BI through user-friendly solutions allowing users to directly interact with available data. The vendor’s solutions can also be deployed at any required scale. Datawatch Monarch specifically offers clinicians access to financial, clinical, and operational system data.

Epic Systems

Epic Systems provides BI tools to support big data functions in hospitals, including clinical workflow optimization, clinical decision support, population health management, predictive analytics, and financial performance modeling. Epic’s Clarity database allows hospitals to run data-intensive reports well-suited to analyzing and managing large quantities of data and integrating data into other systems.

GetWellNetwork

GetWellNetwork offers healthcare organizations access to actionable data and data management through its Management Console. GetWellNetwork is currently the largest interactive patient care provider for the VA, aiding in patient engagement. GetWellNetwork also provides hospitals with monthly performance reporting on the status and support of its IT installations to allow staff to evaluate problems and determine solutions for improvements. The vendor also provides hospitals with comparative performance data showing how their organizations stack up to other hospitals.

Inovalon

Inovalon provides cloud-based platforms to facilitate hospitals in the transition from volume to value-based care models. The vendor specializes in leveraging large-scale data interconnectivity capabilities, proprietary data sets, analytics capabilities, and data-driven intervention systems to optimize various aspects of hospital management. Inovalon enables providers to assess and improve clinical and quality outcomes and financial performance across their hospital system. The vendor services many different healthcare stakeholders, including health plans and pharmaceutical companies. Inovalon currently provides actionable insights for almost 500 healthcare organizations and 856,000 physicians in 375,000 clinical facilities.

MEDHOST

MEDHOST’s business intelligence solutions provide applications for financial, clinical, operational, and regulatory data reporting. The modular, interoperable platform provides scalable solutions covering over 600 key performance indicators (KPIs) surrounding regulatory reporting and compliance. MEDHOST also provides support for mobile analytics as well as on-premise or cloud-based deployments. The vendor’s BI solutions recently passed ONC’s 2015 Edition Certified EHR Technology Program to meet CMS Meaningful Use Stage 3 requirements.

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