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Duplicate and fragmented shared patient records are progressively putting patient safety at risk and afflict provider bottom lines.
Healthcare IT research firm's sweeping worldwide study reveals rapidly advancing opportunities for US-based and local tech vendors
New country brief details Mexico's interoperability-first agenda (NOM-024/DGIS GIIS), hyperscale cloud acceleration in Querétaro, and the contestable layers reshaping hospital digitization: security, integration, analytics, imaging, and digital front door.
As part of the 700-page 2026 Black Book State of Global Digital Healthcare, this continuing series spotlights Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing regions for EHR adoption and interoperability software.
New findings map where providers will realize measurable ROI and where vendors can win in India's interoperability-first market cycle
Black Book poll of 162 rural hospital revenue cycle and business office leaders finds outsourcing is increasingly financed as working-capital protection ahead of the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference
New Market Briefing From Black Book Research Highlights 80% of Surveyed Hospitals Active in EHR Initiatives and Accelerating Demand for SATUSEHAT Interoperability Operations
Juno Health Rated Highest Overall in Key "Future-Ready" Measures for Small and Rural Hospitals; RHT Program Funding Expected to Accelerate Modernization Decisions
Black Book outlines an AI-era integrity architecture for healthcare benchmarking, instrumentation hardening, tiered verification, real-time anomaly detection, and longitudinal observability, paired with transparent, audit-ready reporting and responsible AI use with clear human accountability.
Provider-side survey highlights auditability gaps, weak post-deployment monitoring, and untracked hidden outlines a practical 90-day remediation sequence for hospitals and health systems
The national health IT tech stack enters the 2026-2030 build cycle as procurement priorities expand across EHR, population health, analytics, and operational/financial management software, new Black Book report
New, Canada-wide evidence from a late-2025 pulse survey of 648 acute care stakeholders-plus a 2026-2030 buyer roadmap on interoperability-as-a-procurement-gate, data sovereignty, and tightening renewal terms.
Black Book Market Research announces an independent, decision grade companion report available gratis to global healthcare IT stakeholders
HIT "Independence, Measurement, and Continuous Qualification" Standard (v2026.1) formalizes transparency and governance practices as AI and innovation reshape buyer expectations
Updated analysis shows procurement moving toward data that outlives the application, with openEHR + HL7 FHIR emerging as a pragmatic target pattern for exchange and longitudinal persistence.
New analysis details the national platforms, standards, and vendor landscape shaping EMR consolidation, interoperability, medicines safety, and cyber resilience across Aotearoa New Zealand
Companion publications deliver a first-90-days execution agenda, governance and KPI frameworks, and standardized procurement scorecards aligned to CMS' five-year, $50 billion Rural Health Transformation initiative (FY 2026-FY 2030).
205 rural small and Critical Access Hospital IT, clinical, and financial users cite repackaged health-system solutions, misaligned implementation models, and limited vendor responsiveness to Rural Health Transformation Collaboratives
Multi-year wins underscore sustained specialty-first innovation, workflow depth, and revenue-cycle performance at scale
ModMed, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Netsmart, athenahealth, and Specialty Category Innovators Lead Black Book's 2026 Ambulatory EHR Rankings
Top PPMS Rated Across 18 PPMS KPIs including Implementation, Scalability, Uptime, ROI, and Workflow-Embedded AI Automation
Validated national polling finds support execution, prior-authorization friction, production-grade interoperability, and AI governance are shaping the next phase of practice management modernization
Strategic Fit Assessment Finds Leadership Concentrated in Enterprise-Scale Clinical Performance and Resilience While Cloud Agility, Partnership Value, and Patient Engagement Create New "Wedge" Opportunities
Preliminary, directional read of planned 88-investor sample indicates heightened proof thresholds (unit economics, reimbursement, outcomes) and renewed appetite for carve-outs, milestone bridges, and structured financings heading into JPM Week 2026 from Black Book Research flash polls.
Black Book® Q4 2025 flash survey finds behavioral health, post-acute, public health, and CBO connectivity still heavily manual, with fees (59%), immature APIs (52%), and slow onboarding (46%) cited as top barriers, more often than missing standards (23%).
Segment-specific, 18-dimension benchmark maps vendor strengths as Australian boards elevate workflow, medication safety, My Health Record interoperability, cloud operating models, and cyber-resilient continuity planning through 2030.
Year-round, audit-supported 36-KPI performance benchmarking, anchored in verified end-user experience, enables defensible vendor comparisons and decision-grade competitive intelligence, with governance controls engineered to keep results free of vendor influence.
A landmark, vendor-agnostic global benchmark delivering country-true insights on EHR and digital health performance across 147 countries, evaluating 70 vendors against 18 operational KPIs, independent from vendor influence, now available as a no-cost resource to support evidence-based decision-making worldwide.
In 2025, Black Book expanded global healthcare IT research coverage; issued 32 complimentary, vendor-neutral benchmarking reports; advanced a 36‑KPI qualitative performance framework supported by Google Looker analytics and Qualtrics engagement; and compiled 311,732 verified end-user survey and satisfaction poll responses worldwide. This 2025 intake builds on a longitudinal repository now approaching four million verified end‑user reviews captured over the past decade.
Black Book Survey of 417 European health IT leaders across nine countries finds "interoperability-first" is now a procurement gate; multilingual localization is driving adoption; and modular modernization is reducing disruption-capabilities increasingly delivered by Europe-headquartered platforms and regional champions
Black Book Survey of health IT leaders across five high-activity Middle East markets finds sovereignty-compatible architectures and Arabic/English workflow readiness are now pass/fail gates-while AI interest is rising faster than governance and dataflow transparency
Survey of 21,555 verified hospital and health system software users outside the U.S. identifies 2026's highest-velocity markets for EHR/EMR modernization, revenue cycle automation, interoperability tooling, analytics, RIS/LIS, patient engagement, and applied AI
Sovereignty-first procurement is becoming the "zero-trust gate" for national health data screening vendors at RFP intake as AI pipelines, cloud control planes, and cross-border data flows raise the stakes
Black Book Market Research | 2026 State of Global Digital Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Report
Black Book Market Research issues a global operational alert alongside the release of its 2026 "State of Global Healthcare Technology" report, a no-cost, nearly 700-page reference covering 147 countries and 70+ EHR/EMR/EPR, interoperability, cybersecurity, and healthcare IT vendors. The 2026 edition introduces a conflict-recovery supplement and a proposed framework for vendor coordination on continuity-of-care infrastructure.
Issued by Black Book Market Research ahead of this week's release of the 2026 "State of Global Digital Healthcare, IT and EMR" a no-charge, 700-page global resource manual covering 147 countries and 70+ EHR/EMR/EPR vendors, spotlighting nine conflict-affected geographies where hospital operations, staffing, and healthcare IT have been severely impaired despite meaningful pre-conflict clinical capability to build on.
Black Book Research Q4 flash survey shows health plans shifting from effort-based sourcing to KPI-backed operating models, tightening third- and fourth-party controls while accelerating platform and cloud contract rationalization.
Respondents report approvals and evaluation readiness are now the bottlenecks driving demand for reusable safety artefacts, evidence repeatability and lifecycle controls.
Boards and executive buyers are raising the 2026 bar for all product and service rankings and this annual statement explains the standards Black Book applies to keep survey evaluations rigorous, independent and resistant to score chasing.
Black Book Market Research finds fewer than 1 in 5 health systems report mature AI governance and most undercount staff time spent supervising and correcting AI output
CMS compliance deadlines and heightened cybersecurity expectations are accelerating payer interoperability and utilization management modernization while shifting vendor selection toward platforms that measurably shorten time-to-treatment, close gaps in care, and improve quality performance.
Black Book Research national survey maps federal, state, and local mandates impacting hospital, physician, and payer information technology in 2026
New Black Book Research flash survey of 427 hospital and health system security leaders finds 74% see EHR, AI and cloud vendors as their top emerging cyber risk, 63% report vendor-linked incidents in the last 24 months, and over half have suffered clinical disruption or downtime.
Black Book Research's Europe Cybersecurity in Healthcare 2026 finds only 13% of providers have tested kill-switches for critical vendors and AI platforms as NIS2, GDPR and the EU AI Act raise the stakes.
Per-Study and Bundled Deals Dominate as Imaging AI Remains a Discretionary Spend
Identity and access, endpoint/email protection, network/Zero Trust, backup and recovery, and 24×7 detection/response emerge as hospitals' "must-fund" cybersecurity stack per current Black Book cyber polls
Black Book Research launches US Hospital Cyber Resilience 2026 - Volume 2: Identity, Insurance, and Incident Readiness, a free, vendor-neutral guide for hospital leaders navigating AI-driven cyber incidents and upstream vendor risk.
