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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
Black Book Research's new 87-page, 11 month long pediatric technology study names 2026 category leaders across EHR, AI documentation, revenue cycle, virtual care, imaging, pharmacy, throughput, and outsourced support as hospital boards prioritize access, revenue integrity, family experience, adolescent privacy, and resilience
Third report in Black Book's five-month Nurses Week research series warns that prior authorization, denials, formulary barriers, and opaque payer decisions are creating hidden nursing workload, delayed discharges, medication gaps, and patient-safety risk.
Survey of 118 registered nurse managers finds strong conditional readiness for AI, but adoption depends on RN control, auditability, workflow fit, and measurable reduction in duplicate charting in Black Book Nursing Week 2026 series
Black Book Research six month survey of 480 registered nurses finds 78% experienced an unplanned clinical technology outage in the past year, 64% report no recent realistic downtime drill, and 62% lack confidence administering medications safely without eMAR or barcode scanning
New research finds ACO digital infrastructure is shifting from retrospective reporting to risk-bearing operating command centers as payer APIs, APP Plus, care orchestration, and vendor accountability reshape the market
New market report finds Finland's healthcare IT sector has entered a new phase defined by workflow optimization, county-scale platform strategy, diagnostics integration, interoperability, analytics, and practical AI deployment.
New Black Book Research report, based on approximately 1,280 qualified U.S. oncology stakeholders, identifies the top-rated vendors across 16 oncology IT and services categories as reimbursement reform, prior authorization pressure, and precision care complexity reshape oncology operations
New 2026 report finds CEZIH has reached real national scale, with 15 million annual eReferrals, 61 million ePrescriptions, 300,000 daily structured reports, and 1.5 million daily insurance checks driving a new era of competition in workflow, interoperability, diagnostics, and AI readiness.
Black Book's Q2 2026 analysis highlights rising demand for integrated healthcare AI platforms that unify data, orchestration, and operational execution
Black Book's Q2 2026 analysis highlights rising demand for integrated healthcare AI platforms that unify data, orchestration, and operational execution
New 2026 report finds weak visibility, slow substitute approvals, and manual exception workflows are eroding margin and continuity of care, while control towers, workflow orchestration, and connected supply chain IT emerge as the fix.
Black Book Releases Sweden 2026 Digital Healthcare IT Report, Marking 17 Years of Polling and Highlighting a New Procurement Era in One of Europe's Most Digitally Advanced Healthcare Markets
New Q1 2026 market briefing finds Poland has moved beyond basic digitization into one of Europe's more advanced national e-health environments, with interoperability, workflow performance, patient access, AI adoption, and cyber resilience now shaping provider and vendor opportunity through 2030
Black Book report finds the market is shifting from stand-alone alerts to enterprise-scale AI platforms that combine clinically credible detection, workflow orchestration, mobile care coordination, and measurable operational impact
New Wiley Book Arrives as Tariffs, Supply-Chain Risk and Factory Investment Reshape U.S. Manufacturing Strategy
Black Book Research, in its 2026 research series on payer IT, software, and services, reports that data usability, workflow activation, identity confidence, and provenance gaps, rather than transport alone, now define payer-to-payer interoperability success or failure.
New market-intelligence report finds post-acute providers are prioritizing practical technologies and managed services that protect payment, reduce rework, strengthen staffing visibility, accelerate admissions, improve compliance readiness, and close interoperability and cybersecurity gaps.
Buyer-led evaluations identify a common market shift: healthcare organizations are prioritizing platforms that operationalize analytics into governed, workflow-embedded execution with measurable client satisfaction and durable outcomes
Brown's new book arrives as reshoring, tariffs, supply-chain realignment, and factory investment reshape the U.S. industrial economy
Black Book Research Founder Doug Brown says AI is beginning to dismantle the old healthcare IT model built on giant staffs, high overhead, and expensive vendor structures that health systems have long been forced to fund
Black Book's Latest Enterprise Virtual Care Findings Position Andor Health at the Top of a Market Increasingly Defined by Interoperable Workflow Orchestration, AI-Enabled Collaboration and Enterprise-Scale Virtual Care Infrastructure
Validated provider-side feedback ranks InteliChart first overall among independent, EHR-agnostic patient engagement platforms for the fourth consecutive year, as healthcare organizations intensify their focus on interoperability, automation, consumer usability, and enterprise-wide digital engagement.
Buyer-weighted study finds benefits confusion, outreach failure, and fragmented payer workflows, not eligibility processing alone, are driving the greatest first-120-day transition risk; 20% of surveyed payer users report attending RISE National in Orlando this week
New market intelligence identifies country-specific demand for modular hospital platforms, ambulatory cloud EHR, population health interoperability, smart-hospital analytics, imaging workflow AI, and revenue-cycle modernization across Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America
Black Book Research names IKS Health a top-performing vendor in AI-Driven RCM Managed Services, Managed Medical Coding Services, and Clinical Documentation & AI Services.
New 50-page market briefing finds the UK acute care IT market is being reshaped by four distinct NHS buying environments, near-universal EPR adoption pressure, NHS App scale, interoperability demands, and rising transformation risk scrutiny through 2030
New 2026 analysis finds Spain's national digital backbone is no longer the differentiator; autonomous communities and provider groups now compete on interoperability, cyber resilience, and hospital workflow performance
New market intelligence finds South Africa's healthcare digital transformation accelerating along a "two-speed" path, with private-sector modernization outpacing much of the public sector as buyers prioritize identity, interoperability, resilience, and measurable outcomes
Client-rated highest user satisfaction vendor guide helps attendees identify 70 Black Book-honored booths by interoperability, clinical platforms, ambient AI, cybersecurity, revenue cycle, imaging, analytics and operation from a exhibit hall of over 1000 vendors at HIMSS26
Attendees can use onsite Black Book trophies to quickly identify exhibitors from over 1000 booths that earned standout user satisfaction marks in Black Book's Q3 2025 through Q1 2026 polling cycle
PAIR Benchmark scores overall readiness at 58/100, with ~35-40% provider-side manual fallback and only ~20% reporting SLO-grade monitoring and runbooks.
New country report, part of Black Book's 2026 State of Global EHR & Digital Health series spanning 147 countries, maps China's smart-hospital acceleration, payer-linked digital identity rails, AI-enabled inpatient transformation, and procurement proof points through 2030
France country extract from the 2026 Black Book of Global Digital Healthcare IT highlights procurement "proof points" shaping hospital DPI/EHR modernization through 2030: interoperability execution, Ségur-linked timing, GHT governance, regulated hosting (HDS), and cyber-resilience contracting
This newest Germany-focused report shares KRITIS-grade security and resilience requirements, administrative backbone replacement risk, and cloud-sovereignty expectations shaping acute-care HIS/KIS decisions for 2026-2030.
New study of 774 hospital and medical group revenue cycle leaders finds payer-change responsiveness, auditability, and support performance are now the defining differentiators
320 attendees of the VIVE and JP Morgan Healthcare Conferences reveal in the Black Book pulse survey what VCs, PE and banks are underwriting across providers, payers, pharma/life sciences and medical equipment ecosystems emphasizing tighter proof thresholds and a flight to execution-ready platforms.
Survey of 1,104 behavioral health professionals finds denials and prior authorization burden rising as AI adoption accelerates.
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