Health Care Management Software Industry Competitors

Jokes about doctors' handwriting may go the way of house calls thanks to Allscripts Healthcare - a provider of clinical software and information systems for doctors. The company sells prescription-management software and services that let doctors enter prescription information over computer networks, including tools that give doctors access (via desktop or wireless handheld devices) to patient drug history, drug interactions, and generic alternatives....

Landacorp helps health care providers and insurers maximize their time and profit. The company's maxMC and e-maxMC (for payers) and Maxsys II (for hospitals) programs automate care authorization and reimbursement, ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines, and collect member data for analysis....

The health care information technology division of 3M Health Care, 3M Health Information Systems (3M HIS) has been keeping the health care industry healthy since 1983. The division specializes in medical records coding and computerized patient record products and services....

Founded in 1977, ABELSoft provides clinical and practice management software for medical and dental practices. Counting more than 9,000 doctors and dentists as customers, the company offers applications for billing, insurance processing, appointment scheduling, clinical charting, electronic medical records, clinical management, and office messaging and communications....

Adastra is adept at getting patients in touch with their doctors. Founded in 1994, Adastra Software provides patient call management, data distribution, and clinical recording software for general practitioners in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The company's systems organize patient communications with 24-hour helplines for times when the doctor's office is closed, and they help organize health care walk-in centers, hospital services, and social services phone systems....

American TeleCare makes sure that when doctors do phone it in, they have the tools they need to provide good care. The company provides integrated "telehealth" hardware and software systems that enable health care providers to remotely assess and monitor patients....

If it sometimes sounds like your doctor is speaking a foreign language, Apelon is trying to make sure that she's at least speaking the same language as all the other doctors. Founded in 1999, Apelon provides software and services that health care providers use to create, maintain, and standardize medical terminology....

Aspyra aspires to keep folks around the globe healthy. The company, a provider of clinical and diagnostic information solutions for the healthcare industry, specializes in enterprise-wide systems for hospitals, multi-specialty clinics, clinical laboratories, imaging departments and centers, orthopedic environments, and pharmacies....

athenahealth knows that managing physician practices can result in a splitting headache, especially when patients are late paying bills. The company provides health care organizations with Web-based software and services (athenaCollector) that streamline practice management, workflow routing, revenue management, patient information management, billing and collection, and other health care management tasks....

Atlas Development carries a world of health care information on its shoulders. Founded in 1989, Atlas Development provides health care and laboratory software and custom software development services through its three divisions. Atlas Medical offers a suite of clinical connectivity and clinical trials management applications....

Axolotl provides hospitals and healthcare systems with Web solutions to share clinical information. Its product suite, called Elysium, automates health information exchange (HIE) between hospitals, clinics, labs, radiology centers, and their affiliated physicians....

CareMedic Systems tries to keep hospitals and other health care facilities in the black. The company develops revenue collection software to help enable hospitals to speed the process of getting paid and make it all run more efficiently. Its first product, AcceleratAR, was developed in 1997 and was designed to manage Medicare reimbursements....

For Clinical Computing, technology plus dialysis care equals its clinical information systems. Founded in 1979, the company develops point-of-care clinical information management software primarily for the renal dialysis market, targeting national health care providers, teaching hospitals and hospital departments, and independent dialysis clinics....

CLINICARE cares for North America's doctors by helping them computerize their medical records. The company provides electronic medical records, practice management, and other software for more than 200 physician groups and practices in Canada and -- through subsidiary CHARTCARE -- in the US....

Consulier Engineering has designs on all sorts of markets. Consulier holds a 51% stake in Systems Technologies, LLC; Systems Technologies in turn owns 75% of Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS), a provider of medical software for hospital emergency departments, including passive tracking technologies for emergency departments and operating rooms....

e...

When you go to the hospital to get a picture taken of your gall bladder, Emageon wants to make sure that picture leaves nothing to your doctor's imagination. The company develops clinical analysis and medical image management software that helps doctors view, manipulate, and store medical images for diagnosis, disease screening, and therapy planning....

E...

Fast Track Systems has some good medicine for drug developers. The company provides software that helps manage the pharmaceutical and biotechnology clinical development process. Fast Track's TrialSpace software suite includes applications for designing clinical data protocols for accurate and consistent information; managing grants information; and managing contract information....

GTESS tries to take the stress out of health care claims. The company provides software and services for automating medical claim payment processes for Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, HMOs, preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and other clients....