Thematic Report

Electronic Health Records (EHR) Start-ups: Circumventing the EPIC-Cerner Oligopoly

EHR systems were predicted to breathe a new life into healthcare IT, but have failed to live up to the promise. Despite expensive installations, hospitals still struggle with workflow integration, HCP training, and lack of interoperability. Additionally, the oligopoly in the EHR vendor market restricts innovation in the healthcare IT solutions and fails to open up interfaces for collaboration. As EHR systems try to move to a user-friendly and outcome-based model, there is a tremendous opportunity for start-ups to bring innovation center stage. EHR start-ups are looking to address value leakages by bridging the gap between investments and better clinical outcomes through cost optimization, unified patient view, meaningful insights, and advancing the interoperability mandate.

In this report, starting with a long list of over 200 candidates, we analyze five hot healthcare start-ups focused on disrupting EHR. We focus on:

  • Hot healthcare start-ups: Key players driving disruption
    • Funding scenario
    • Leading investment areas
    • Healthcare start-ups shortlist
    • Healthcare start-ups leader board
    • Implications for enterprises
    • Implications for service providers
  • Care management: Industry trends and start-ups
    • Current status
    • Innovation trends
    • Changing the status quo
    • Leading start-ups and profiles
  • Profiles of five hot healthcare start-ups in EHR (Practice Fusion, Health Catalyst, Flatiron, Redox, and CareCloud), which encompass tenets such as:
    • Business overview
    • Leadership details
    • Funding trail
    • Disruption across technology & business
    • Market buzz

The full report – Hot Healthcare Start-ups: Dawn of a New World Order – encompasses 25 hot healthcare start-ups across five investment areas – care financing, care management, EHR, practice management, and telehealth.