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¶ … records are being replaced with electronic records in all fields. This is especially important in the medical field, where stores information is useful when a patient or doctor must access it in seconds. Computerized systems, however, have not achieved the same degree of utilization in the medical field as in other business fields, for instance, either in the Western world or elsewhere.[footnoteRef:1] However, as mentioned above, these systems can be vitally important. According to some, "Electronic medical record systems lie at the center of any computerized health information system. Without them other modern technologies such as decision support systems cannot be effectively integrated into routine clinical workflow. The paperless, interoperable, multi-provider, multi-specialty, multi-discipline computerized...
In an aim to understand this better and see just how these systems can function, and contribute to aiding a patient, it is important to see who provides them. For this reason, this paper will focus on a description of the top ten EMR vendors. [1: Electronic Medical Records. (2011). No Author. Open Clinical. Retrieved October 30, 2011, from .] [2: Electronic Medical Records. (2011). No Author. Open Clinical. Retrieved October 30, 2011, from .]
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"With the federal government poised to spend $20 billion or more on healthcare IT as part of the economic-stimulus bill now before Congress, it's a good time to get to know these companies."[footnoteRef:3] [3: Hamilton, D. (2009). The Top Ten Electronic Medical Record Vendors. CBS Interactive Business Network. Retrieved October 30, 2011, from <http://www.bnet.com/blog/healthcare/the-top-ten-electronic-medical-record-vendors/350>. ]
According to this, the striking thing is the concentration within the sectors. The study further states, "Meditech, a privately held Boston-area company, holds more than a quarter of the market; McKesson and Cerner, numbers 2 and 3 on the list, control another 27%. All told, the top six companies -- excluding in-house systems -- are responsible for three-quarters of the EHR installations in hospitals around America."[footnoteRef:4] [4: Hamilton, D. (2009). The Top Ten Electronic Medical Record Vendors. CBS Interactive Business Network. Retrieved October 30, 2011, from <http://www.bnet.com/blog/healthcare/the-top-ten-electronic-medical-record-vendors/350>.]
The paper thus provides a ranging of the top ten vendors, which can be useful and which is as follows[footnoteRef:5]: [5: Hamilton, D. (2009). The Top Ten Electronic Medical Record Vendors. CBS Interactive Business Network. Retrieved October 30, 2011, from <http://www.bnet.com/blog/healthcare/the-top-ten-electronic-medical-record-vendors/350>.]
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