12 of the top technology vendors serving children’s hospitals

Epic makes the list with its enterprise inpatient EHR and related platforms. So does PCC, aka Physician’s Computer Company, which supplies pediatric-specific ambulatory EHR and practice-management products and services. 

The list—which names the “2026 category leaders shaping pediatric digital health strategy”—was compiled the market research firm Black Book Research. 

Black Book released an 87-page report on the topic May 11. 

The company says its findings are based on survey responses from 1,638 provider organizations in the children’s healthcare space, along with a Black Book evaluation framework incorporating 18 key performance indicators. 

The report’s executive summary states that, overall, children’s hospitals are funding technologies that reduce denial risk, shorten specialty wait times, improve referral completeness, protect clinician time and extend scarce pediatric subspecialty expertise across regional networks. 

Meanwhile, the buyer agenda is “being compressed by policy and workforce realities.” 

Medicaid and CHIP remain central to pediatric hospital economics while electronic prior authorization, the summary states, and API-based interoperability are moving onto firm implementation timelines. 

All this is happening while pediatric organizations continue to manage adolescent confidentiality, proxy access and family communication “in ways that adult-oriented workflow tools do not fully solve,” according to the report. 

The result, Black Book says, is “a market that rewards pediatric workflow fit over generic acute-care functionality.”

Along with Epic and PCC, the report recognizes the following suppliers.

• Office Practicum (Pediatric-specialty EHR, practice management, patient engagement, pediatric revenue cycle management [RCM] support)
   
• Abridge (Ambient AI clinical documentation/AI documentation relief)
   
• Experian Health (Patient access, RCM, identity, eligibility and financial clearance technology) 
   
• Cedar (Patient financial engagement, patient billing, digital payments, digital financial experience) 
   
• Waystar (RCM, healthcare payments, prior authorization, payer connectivity)
   
• Hazel Health (School-based virtual care, pediatric telehealth, student mental health access)
   
• TeleTracking (Patient flow, transfer center, throughput, capacity management, hospital operations command infrastructure)
   
• Sectra (Enterprise imaging, picture archiving and communication systems [PACS], vendor-neutral archive [VNA], diagnostic workflow infrastructure) 
   
• Omnicell (Medication management, pharmacy automation, dispensing automation, medication safety infrastructure)
   
• Ensemble Health Partners (End-to-end outsourced RCM and RCM managed services) 

In a news release promoting the report’s availability, Black Book Research founder Doug Brown says children’s hospitals are “moving past technology enthusiasm and into technology accountability.”

“The market winners will be vendors that can prove they understand pediatric care delivery, not just hospital IT,” Brown adds. “That means measurable performance in access, workflow, revenue, privacy, safety, resilience and family experience.”

The report is available for downloading here.