“Black Book” Survey Reveals 50 Emerging Solutions Methodically Challenging the Healthcare Technology Status Quo

“Black Book” Survey Reveals 50 Emerging Solutions Methodically Challenging the Healthcare Technology Status Quo

• Nearly 4,000 executives, professionals and consultants from healthcare providers, payers, vendors, advisory firms, investment banks and venture capital organizations assessed emerging solutions on their individual ability to contribute to a more integrated, patient-centric, productivity-enhancing HIT ecosystem, and outperform competitors.

Tampa, Florida., February 16, 2022

Global investment funding for the digital health sector reached a record $57 billion in 2021, growing a record 79%. 3,655 executives, professionals and consultants from 2,904 healthcare providers, payers, vendors, advisory firms, investment banks and venture capital organizations assessed emerging IT solutions on their individual ability to contribute to a more integrated, patient-centric, productivity-enhancing HIT ecosystem.

The series of surveys conducted between October 2021 and February 2022 presented 377 recently funded, capitalized, rebranded, merged or acquired, and expanding vendor solutions trending on the radar of healthcare technology investment observers, to be scored on 18 KPIs.

Respondents from 883 hospital and physician provider organizations, 302 venture capital firms, 741 non-VC investor firms and banks, 866 healthcare IT vendors, 375 HIT consultancies and advisory organizations, 100 healthcare consumer groups, and 388 payers and health plans participated in rating nearly 400 emerging solutions that in the past two years were funded, capitalized, merged, acquired, reorganized and/or rebranded with considerable offering changes.

Black Book employs the industry’s unique qualitative key performance indicators specific to emerging vendors and products’ ability to reshape or alter the existing situation and static IT systems, including Product Mission, Vendor Business Model, Core Product Value Proposition, Market Timing. Problem-Orientation technology, Product Differentiation, Demonstrated Leadership, Capitalization & Funding, Competitive Advantage and Rivalry, Momentum to Take IT to next level, Organizational Agility, Creativity & Innovative Output, challenge to the HIT status quo, Motivation of Team Members, Potential for Growth, Market Visibility, Vendor Viability, Access to Markets, Market knowledge and healthcare industry competence. 

Black Book gathered experts’ assessment data and announced the top-scoring vendors positioned to improve the existing IT systems environment.

 "All of the solutions offered for evaluation display some innovation that could shape the future of digital technologies, interoperability and enhanced healthcare delivery, but these top-rated 50 notably present structural contributions that are making a pivotal impact on tomorrow’s healthcare technology ecosystem," said Brian Locastro, Senior Research Manager of Black Book. 

Black Book™, its founders, management and staff do not own or hold any financial interest in any of the vendors covered and encompassed in the surveys it conducts. Black Book reports the results of the collected satisfaction and client experience rankings in publication and to media prior to vendor notification of rating results and does not solicit vendor participation fees, review fees, inclusion or briefing charges, consultation requirements, and/or vendor collaboration as Black Book polls vendors’ clients.

In alphabetical order, the 50 top-rated emerging healthcare IT vendors for 2022 are …

• 1uphealth
• Andor Health
• Aptihealth
• Avaneer
• Babyscripts
• Bamboo Health
• Blumira
• Cadence Health
• Caregility
• Carenet Health
• Caresyntax
• Cedar
• Circulo Health
• Clarify Health
• Closedloop Ai
• Commure
• Connect America
• Cybershark
• Deep Scribe
• Deliverhealth
• Dexcare
• Enlace Health
• Flatiron Health
• Happify Health
• Healthcare Triangle
• Imagine Software
• Included Health
• Janus Health
• Luma Health
• Medallion
• Medicom Technologies
• Notable Health
• Nthrive
• Ovation
• Payzen
• Prealize
• Prolucent Health
• Quantum Health
• Quio
• Rad Ai
• Redox
• Reveleer
• Ribbon Health
• Robin Healthcare
• Spire Health
• Sword Health
• Symplr
• Tempus
• Verifiable
• Vital Software

For methodology, auditing, resources, comprehensive research and ranking data, see: http://www.blackbookmarketresearch.com. The ranking and performance data on the top 50 recognized vendors from the 56-page report can also be downloaded from this Black Book website landing page.