As federal support for EHR implementation ebbs, other HIT projects are crowding in to keep spending strong. Aging financial management systems will need to be replaced as pay-for-performance ramps up as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The mandated switch to the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural code set, requiring updates in IT systems, as well as more advanced coding systems to handle the vastly increased code granularity, not to mention the new technical complexities felt by state Medicaids and CMS itself, is already making good business for firms like Cognosante, a brain trust of some of the most talented healthcare IT people in the country.
BCC Research recently predicted that total spending on clinical health IT would soar to $26.1 billion a year in five years, up from $9.5 billion in 2011 and $11.2 billion in 2012. CarePrecise builds provider databases targeting various applications within the healthcare industry, including EHR, HIE, HIX and Sunshine Law (Open Payments) applications.
Joseph Conn has an excellent article in Modern Healthcare will more details.
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