In case you missed it, I’ve moved a lot of my discussion of the EMR and Health IT markets to my site: EMR Thoughts. I’ve done a lot of posts on that site that look at the EMR market, the health IT investments, the Health IT incubators (or accelerators if you prefer), and other movement in the EMR, EHR and Health IT markets. If you like that type of content, you should definitely subscribe to the EMR Thoughts email list.
Even though, I’ve moved a lot of my EMR market discussion to the other site, every once in a while I’ll drop in some EMR market stuff on here as well. In the article linked in my Costco EMR post, they discussed the size of the EMR market:
Millennium Research Group said in its November report, “U.S. Markets for Electronic Medical Records 2012,” that the U.S. market for EMRs will exceed $8 billion by 2016, with the fastest-growing segment occurring in the small-practice market. Web-based EMRs that don’t require an expensive information technology infrastructure are contributing to the growth, the report said, because they are an affordable option for small practices on tight budgets.
I always hate when they don’t split the EHR market into ambulatory EHR and hospital EHR. I also still haven’t figure out a good way to reconcile that the EMR market in the US will be $8 billion in 2016, but we’ll have spent a good portion of the $36 billion of EHR stimulus money by 2016. Those two numbers don’t jive very well.
I also find it interesting that the fastest-growing segment of the EMR market is the small-practices. I’m not sure I agree with this. I think the larger sales and hospital EHR sales are brisker than the small practice EMR market. Much of the small practice market is still “waiting and seeing.”
