Core Market Segments

Question 1

Core Market Segments

Answer 1

• Acute Care EMR
• Ambulatory EMR
• Healthcare Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Cardiology
• Enterprise Imaging (PACS, VNA, Universal Viewer)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Global (PACS, Acute EPR/EMR)
• Medical Equipment – Smart Pumps
• Patient Accounting & Patient Management
• Practice Management
• Population Health
• Professional Services **
• Virtual Care Platforms

Question 2

Acute Care EMR

Answer 2

Software products that provide core inpatient functionality, including CDR, order entry (including CPOE), results reporting, and/or clinician charting and documentation.

Question 3

Ambulatory EMR

Answer 3

Clinical software solutions that provide charting, orders, prescriptions, and/or other EMR functionality.

Question 4

Healthcare Business Intelligence and Analytics

Answer 4

Software products that provide enterprise analytics and reporting on clinical, operational, and financial data. Products ingest, analyze, and report or display data in a format such as dashboards or scorecards that is reasonably understandable to non-IT users.

Question 5

Cardiology

Answer 5

Products that provide digital image management for cardiovascular modalities.

Question 6

Enterprise Imaging (PACS, VNA, Universal Viewer)

Answer 6

Picture archiving and communication system (PACS): software that archives digital images and provides a platform for displaying and transmitting images for physician review.

Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA): An enterprise clinical imaging repository.

Universal Viewer: Solution that can be used for referential and/or diagnostic viewing; that supports multiple media types (DICOM, JPEG, MPEG, Cine clip, etc.); across multiple service lines (radiology, cardiology, pathology, wound care, etc.)

Question 7

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Answer 7

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendor products and components that provide minimum of two of the following: Financials (GL/AP), HR & payroll, and Supply Chain management.

Question 8

Medical Equipment – Smart Pumps

Answer 8

Equipment used for large volume infusions (LVP), infusion of patient control analgesic (PCA) medications and epidurals, and infusion of small-volume medications dispensed via a syringe, including a drug library and a dose-error reduction system to establish drug limits and prevent IV medication errors.

Question 9

Patient Accounting & Patient Management

Answer 9

Software products that provide core inpatient functionality, including patient management (ADT), patient accounting (billing and A/R), basic scheduling, and general financials.

Question 10

Practice Management

Answer 10

Practice Management solutions focused on billing and scheduling, and that accommodate the needs of broad-market Primary Care as well as multi-specialty groups.

Question 11

Population Health

Answer 11

Pre-packaged IT Solutions that provide analytics and care management functions to understand, analyze, and proactively manage patient populations.

Question 12

Virtual Care Platforms

Answer 12

Software/Hardware solutions that assist in delivering healthcare services through information and tele/video-communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, monitoring, education, and care management of a patient’s health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site.