The Clinical category encompasses a range of tools and solutions designed to improve care delivery across various healthcare settings. Clinical Operations focuses on optimizing workflows, decision-making, and documentation to enhance the efficiency of healthcare teams. Staffing, Consults, and Referrals solutions support the coordination of healthcare professionals, ensuring patients receive timely care and access to specialists. Orders and Fulfillment platforms streamline the management of prescriptions, lab tests, imaging, and medical equipment, ensuring smooth delivery and reducing delays in patient care.

Patient Support and Communications tools enhance engagement by facilitating secure interactions between patients and providers, enabling care plan management, education, and feedback collection. Lastly, Virtual and At-Home Care solutions extend care beyond traditional facilities through remote monitoring, telehealth services, and home care documentation, supporting continuous care and improving patient outcomes. Together, these components create an integrated ecosystem focused on delivering high-quality, patient-centered care across the healthcare continuum.

Clinical

The Clinical Operations category focuses on optimizing healthcare delivery through tools and systems that enhance care coordination, clinical workflows, and data management. Clinical Decision Support platforms provide evidence-based insights at the point of care, improving clinical outcomes and reducing variability. Clinical Workflow Management solutions streamline processes, ensuring that care is delivered efficiently and aligned with best practices. Care Team Coordination tools facilitate communication and collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, promoting seamless care transitions.

Headless EHR platforms offer a flexible, modular approach to managing health data, enabling organizations to build custom interfaces while maintaining interoperability. Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems serve as the backbone of clinical operations, centralizing patient information to support documentation, billing, and care delivery. Clinical Data Abstraction tools extract relevant patient data for reporting, research, and quality improvement initiatives. Lastly, Home Care Documentation solutions enable remote care providers to efficiently capture and manage patient information, ensuring continuity of care across settings. Together, these technologies ensure that healthcare organizations can operate efficiently, improve patient outcomes, and adapt to evolving care models.

Clinical Operations

AI Products

Administrative

Data & Analytics

Payment Processing and Posting

Security and Compliance

Value-Based Care

Orders and Fulfillment

Patient Support and Communications

Staffing, Consults, and Referrals

Virtual and At-Home Care

Care Team Coordination

Clinical Data Abstraction

Clinical Workflow Management

Electronic Health Record

Headless EHR

Home Care Documentation

Post Acute Transitional Care

Each week, we here at Elion track the latest healthcare IT news, from product announcements to M&A activity and implementations ranging from modestly sized pilots to enterprise-wide rollouts across the nation’s largest health systems. We also take deeper dives into areas of rapid innovation where AI is shifting the vendor landscape. Here we’re rounding up the biggest headlines and insights we covered this year—along with a few of our own product rollouts—all broken down by the numbers.

Elion’s 2024 Debrief

Epic
 is unequivocally the dominant player in the health system electronic health records (EHR) market. If your institution isn’t currently using Epic, chances are you’re either considering it or your EHR vendor is already planning their next moves based on Epic’s roadmap. Here we’ve catalogued Epic’s currently functionality and publicly announced AI plans to help healthcare IT vendors and health systems plan their development accordingly.

Navigating Epic’s AI Market Impact: Opportunities and Threats

This week Bobby spoke with Kaiser Permanente TPMG’s Graham Walker on where they’re focused, how they like to partner with startups, and opportunities for startups to compete in an Epic-dominated ecosystem.

Co-Developing AI Solutions with Graham Walker of Kaiser Permanente

In October 2024 we tracked 77 healthcare IT news stories, with AI clinician assistant, revenue cycle management, and AI contact center news showing up most frequently. Here we’re breaking down the top trends across this month’s news stories.

What You Missed in Healthcare IT: October Edition

This week Bobby spoke with Adventist Health CNIO Karen Hunter. As the organization transitions to Epic, she explained how they’re re-examining and modernizing their workflows, as well as making virtual nursing work and using AI for nurse scheduling.

Modernizing EHR Workflows and Virtual Nursing with Adventist Health CNIO Karen Hunter

In September 2024 we tracked 67 healthcare IT news stories, with 
AI clinician assistant
, 
data & analytics
, and 
clinical operations
 news showing up most frequently. Here, we’re summarizing the month’s news—finding the signal in the noise—so you can stay abreast of the most important trends you may have missed.

What You Missed in Healthcare IT: September Edition

Particle has brought forth an antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive behavior in the payer platform category. Here, we discuss with Brendan Keeler the basis for this suit and its possible implications.

Everything You Need to Know About the Particle vs. Epic Lawsuit

In August 2024, we tracked nearly 80 healthcare IT news stories, with 
value-based care
, 
provider and practice administration
, and 
revenue cycle management
 news showing up most frequently. Here, we’re summarizing the month’s news—finding the signal in the noise—so you can stay abreast of the most important trends you may have missed.

What You Missed in Healthcare IT: August Edition

Elion teamed up with 
Brendan Keeler of Health API guy
 to provide this comprehensive overview of certified EHRs. While the subject is somewhat labyrinthine, we’ve done our best to help you understand what it means to be certified and whether it truly matters.

The EHR Labyrinth: Untangling the myths and realities of Certified Health IT

An in-depth walkthrough of headless EHRs, including a definition of "headless" and a breakdown of two headless archetypes (with sample vendors for each).