A market research published recently by Kalorama Information indicated that currently there is no clear leader in the physician EMR market. With a market size estimated at $13.8 billion in 2009, it is one of huge interest to all the technology companies.
Here is some key points:
large IT companies such as McKesson, Cerner, Eclypsis and MediTech which had previous service relationships with hospitals is doing fairly well.
Allscripts, Epic, eClinicalworks, athenahealth and NextGen are among the leaders but none of them hold 1/5 of the market share.
This is nascent industry is definitely in need of consolidation. Don’t be surprise to see mergers start to occur in the next couple years as the health care technology industry matures.