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Jun 07, 2019, 11:00 ET Black Book™ 2019 Chief Financial Officer Survey Reveals Growing Collaboration With Chief Information Officers

Black Book™ surveyed nearly 1,600 hospital and health system Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance and RCM, Controllers, Business...

Jun 07, 2019, 09:00 ET Black Book Charts a Future Course for the Healthcare CFO

In total, 484 hospitals and inpatient organizations and 713 physician groups were represented in the sweeping Q1-Q2 2019 series of financial...

Jun 07, 2019, 08:00 ET Digital Transformation Investment Critical to Health Systems Survival, Says Senior Financial Leadership in Black Book Study

Black Book™ surveyed nearly 1,600 hospital and health system Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance and RCM, Controllers, Business...

Jun 07, 2019, 07:00 ET Black Book™ 2019 CFO Reveals Value-Based Care, Profitability and Consumerism Demand a New Breed of Financial Technology Leadership

Black Book™ surveyed nearly 1,600 hospital and health system Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance and RCM, Controllers, Business...

Jun 06, 2019, 12:00 ET Black Book™ Announces Top Client-Rated Software and Services Vendors for Achieving Financial Digital Transformation

The highest rated vendors in customer satisfaction and client experience are announced by Black Book Research in 20 specific categories of financial...

Dec 11, 2018, 16:00 ET Health Systems Advise Financially Struggling Peers to Measure EHR Vendor Value Propositions Against Heavy Brand Influences

Over seven frenzied years of inpatient EHR system implementations, Black Book crowd-surveyed tens of thousands of tech-weary hospital executives and...

Dec 04, 2018, 06:00 ET Emerging Trends Reshaping Healthcare Technology Support, Black Book Research

Supporting an evolving, complex technology stack along with the needs of both internal and external customers is not easy for IT vendors. Automation...

Nov 30, 2018, 08:00 ET Black Book: More Than a Quarter of U.S. Hospitals Still Lack Feasible RCM Solutions, Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Their Positive Impact

According to a recent Black Book survey, 26% of all U.S. hospitals still do not have a viable, effective Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solution in...

Nov 26, 2018, 12:00 ET Black Book Survey of More Than 1,500 Executives Confirms the Changing Role of the Healthcare CIO

A year ago, the buzz swirled on how the role of the incumbent executive-in-charge of healthcare IT systems was quickly evolving from a position...

Nov 12, 2018, 15:00 ET Rapid Escalation of Practice Acquisitions Drives Hospital Systems to Merge Hosts of Physician Technology Platforms by 2021, Black Book Survey

Highly functional, highly customizable integrated practice management, revenue cycle management and electronic health records systems are the...

Oct 25, 2018, 09:00 ET Clients Rate Waystar as Top Revenue Cycle Management Software for Physicians & Community Hospitals, Black Book Survey

Today, Black Book Research announced that Waystar, the merged RCM software and services solutions of ZirMed and Navicure, has been named the leading...

Oct 25, 2018, 09:00 ET Optum360 Named #1 for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Solution for Health Systems for Fifth Year in a Row in Software Technology and Outsourcing Services

Today, Black Book Research announced for the fifth consecutive year Optum360 has been named the leading vendor for Revenue Cycle Management Software...

Oct 24, 2018, 16:15 ET M*Modal Ranks # 1 in Medical Transcription and Document Capture Tech Solutions for Fifth Consecutive Year by Black Book Survey Based on Client Satisfaction

Black Book™, recognized for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the multiple healthcare services and software industries, conducted...

Oct 19, 2018, 14:00 ET Nuance Communications Earns Fifth Consecutive #1 Client Rating in End-to-End Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement and Medical Transcription, Black Book Provider Satisfaction Survey

Black Book Research announced the top comprehensive information technology for coding consulting and assessment, clinical documentation improvement,...

Oct 19, 2018, 14:00 ET Black Book Survey: New Generation CDI Enhances Patient Care and Reduces Financial Risk

Nearly a quarter of all U.S. hospitals now outsource some or all coding functions. Ninety-one percent of hospitals over 150 beds currently...

Oct 19, 2018, 14:00 ET Black Book Announces 2018 Coding, Health Information Management, and Clinical Documentation Top Client-Rated Solutions Vendors and Consultants

Black Book Research announced the top comprehensive information technology for coding consulting and assessment, clinical documentation improvement,...

May 21, 2018, 12:15 ET Physician Groups Undertake Organizational Mandate to Transform From Volume to Value & Not Sell Out to Hospitals, Black Book Reports Trend Shift

Despite the decade-long movement away from physician-led practices to hospital employment, Black Book's 2018 value-based care study noted a recent...

May 07, 2018, 02:15 ET By 2022, Average Hospital Costs Must Be Reduced by 24% to Breakeven and Outsourcing May Be the Solution Says Black Book

C-suite, hospital boards and senior managers from 709 hospitals and inpatient organizations responding to a recent outsourcing user survey reveal...

May 03, 2018, 12:45 ET Allscripts Achieves Top Honors From Hospital Chains, IDNs and Networks for Integrated EHR, Interoperability, Population Health and Revenue Cycle Solutions, Black Book Survey

Black Book Research's Q1 2018 poll of 490 U.S. corporate, chain and IDN hospitals revealed the highest user utilization and product satisfaction...

Apr 20, 2018, 08:00 ET Epic Systems and MEDITECH Rise Atop Black Book 2018 Survey of Inpatient EHR Client Satisfaction Joining Cerner and CPSI

As nearly every U.S. hospital has an electronic health record system installed, 36 percent of surveyed medical record administrators still report...

Apr 20, 2018, 08:00 ET Hospital Technology is the New Determiner of Patient Satisfaction, 2018 Black Book EHR User Survey Results

Electronic health record technology and the ways that providers use it to communicate with patients and physicians is affecting how satisfied...

Apr 10, 2018, 08:00 ET Improving Provider Interoperability Congruently Increasing Patient Record Error Rates, Black Book Survey

Black Book™ surveyed 1,392 health technology managers to help stakeholders identify gaps, challenges and successes in patient identification...

Apr 09, 2018, 09:00 ET Specialist-Centric Systems Lead Small Physician Practice EHR Satisfaction, Black Book Survey

Black Book Research announced the top ambulatory EHR rankings as collected from 18,950 physician practices in client experience and satisfaction....

Feb 21, 2018, 04:00 ET 2018 Top Black Book Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems Announced for Oncology and Hematology

Black Book Research, recognized internationally for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the multiple services and software...

Feb 12, 2018, 09:00 ET Infrastructure, Interoperability Issues and Cyberthreats Obstruct Global HIT Development, Black Book 2018 International Survey

Black Book™ Research surveyed 7,459 physicians, health administrators, technology managers and clinical leaders in ambulatory and inpatient settings...