KLAS: Surgery tools making the healthcare cut
Hospital usage of surgery management products has matured past basic charting and scheduling functionalities--which are currently nearing 90 percent adoption--to include more advanced tools, according to a new report from KLAS.
The report, “Surgery Management Study 2010: In Pursuit of Advanced Functionality,” comprises interviews from 509 providers at 426 organizations. Hospitals have expanded use of surgery management functionalities in the last three years, although adoption of resource scheduling and nurse documentation modules has definitely slowed, according to the report.
"These traditional functionalities still play a significant role in customer satisfaction," the Orem, Utah-based research firm stated. "Unibased, the top-ranked vendor in this report, has the highest strength rating and adoption for resource scheduling. However, use of surgery systems in less traditional areas is growing vigorously for revenue cycle management, materials/inventory management, patient tracking, and other capabilities-up by more than 20 percent in some cases."
The report also noted that, although some hospitals are switching to Cerner, Epic and Meditech's surgery systems to take advantage of system-wide integration, the surgery market overall is not experiencing the same push for integration as the rest of the HIT world.
"More frequently than the EMR, surgery exchanges information with a hospital's materials management and patient financial systems. As a result, most hospitals do not feel as pressing a need to purchase their surgery system and core EMR from the same vendor,” the report stated. “This opens the door for non-integrated surgery vendors, such as GE Healthcare, McKesson, Picis, SIS, and Unibased, to continue playing a major role in this market segment."
Unibased ranked highest with a score of 85.9 out of 100, followed by Epic (84.8) and Meditech (79.9). This report also highlights Cerner, GE, McKesson, Picis and Surgical Information Systems (SIS).
The report, “Surgery Management Study 2010: In Pursuit of Advanced Functionality,” comprises interviews from 509 providers at 426 organizations. Hospitals have expanded use of surgery management functionalities in the last three years, although adoption of resource scheduling and nurse documentation modules has definitely slowed, according to the report.
"These traditional functionalities still play a significant role in customer satisfaction," the Orem, Utah-based research firm stated. "Unibased, the top-ranked vendor in this report, has the highest strength rating and adoption for resource scheduling. However, use of surgery systems in less traditional areas is growing vigorously for revenue cycle management, materials/inventory management, patient tracking, and other capabilities-up by more than 20 percent in some cases."
The report also noted that, although some hospitals are switching to Cerner, Epic and Meditech's surgery systems to take advantage of system-wide integration, the surgery market overall is not experiencing the same push for integration as the rest of the HIT world.
"More frequently than the EMR, surgery exchanges information with a hospital's materials management and patient financial systems. As a result, most hospitals do not feel as pressing a need to purchase their surgery system and core EMR from the same vendor,” the report stated. “This opens the door for non-integrated surgery vendors, such as GE Healthcare, McKesson, Picis, SIS, and Unibased, to continue playing a major role in this market segment."
Unibased ranked highest with a score of 85.9 out of 100, followed by Epic (84.8) and Meditech (79.9). This report also highlights Cerner, GE, McKesson, Picis and Surgical Information Systems (SIS).