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Homecare Information Systems Market Assessment
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Homecare Information Systems Market Shares and Forecasts
Homecare Information Systems Market Driving Forces
Market Description and Dynamics
Home Care Services Billing Issues
Prospective Payment System (PPS)
Need For Automation Of Home Care Companies
Managed Care Requirements
Treatment Trends
Market Drivers For Healthcare Cost Containment
Managed Care Change In The Healthcare Industry
Delivery Of Non-Acute Health Care
Integrated Healthcare Information Technology Solutions

The third quarter of 2005 continued a trend of positive developments in the healthcare information technology marketplace. A significant development was the publication of RAND’s peer-reviewed study that indicates healthcare information technology could save the country’s healthcare system $162 billion annually through improved efficiency, disease management and reduced adverse drug events. This study provides large-scale, independent, quantified proof of the impact healthcare information technology can have.

Information systems are emerging as a significant part of the home care delivery systems. Software leverages the efficiency of clinical process in ways that have never become possible before. The system leverages virtually all the administrative and financial information needed to run a successful home care company. Information can be gathered right from the charts.

The significance of integration systems is not yet realized in homecare information systems. However, as patients move from one care venue to another, the patient record is going to need to move with them. The hand-held, computer-based system guides home care clinicians through the entire patient care process. Clinicians can use structured record guides
McKesson is the worldwide leader in homecare information systems. Worldwide homecare medical information systems market shares markets are illustrated in Figure ES-2. Mckesson is the worldwide leader with 34% market share and Mysis HCIS leads in the U.S. with 26% market share.

Cerner BeyondNow Technologies and Patient Care Technologies are the number three and four market participants with 11% market share and Siemens / Novis the number five market participant with 8% share. Fujitsu is a market share market participant with 6% with measurable share.

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Tellabs / AFC
Lucent
Adtran Ciena/Catena
Marconi
Siemens
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