Further Analysis of Data on Meaningful Use Attestation

Comments on my previous post about the data on meaningful use attestation as well as emails, and conversations on social media have led me to want to show the specific data for inpatient and ambulatory attestations. I also include the excellent presentation to the HIT Policy Committee by Robert Tagalicod, Robert Anthony, and Jessica Kahn from CMS on their analysis of the data (including the element not available on data.gov - the money paid out in incentive payments). So first let's look at the Eligible Hospital attestations. Here are the top ten vendors on the inpatient side so far:

It is interesting that Cerner and Meditech are really doing great, while Epic is lagging so far on hospital attestations on the inpatient side, and it's important to note that HCA is using modular systems that incorporate much of Meditech's product. Here are the top ten vendors by attestation for EPs:

It appears that EPIC is by far the vendor with the greatest number of EP attestations (although I suspect that these are employed providers of large health systems). As the Medicaid programs are launched in all the states and those EPs attesting under AIU began to come in I suspect we will see greater numbers for vendors who are in smaller practices.

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Data on Meaningful Use Attestation

Some very interesting data on meaningful use attestations thus far. While the reports already posted by CMS provide good information (such as the map below with a state by state breakdown), the data released on Data.gov enables systematic analysis of the distribution of certified EHR vendors and products among those providers that have attested to meaningful use within the CMS EHR Incentive Programs. The data set can be analyzed by vendor, state, provider type, provider specialty, and practice setting. One data point that would make this even sexier is the dollar amount paid for each attestation, but hopefully that can be included in future releases. I'll be doing some deeper analysis of this data, but some initial interesting facts are noticeable about state and vendor figures.

Here are the top 25 states in number of attestations for meaningful use as of November 2011:

Attestations	State/Territory
1761	Texas
1653	Ohio
1533	Illinois
1450	Pennsylvania
1387	Florida
1287	California
1272	New York
963	Minnesota
931	Massachusetts
812	Wisconsin
752	New Jersey
638	New Hampshire
606	Oregon
588	Virginia
525	North Carolina
520	Michigan
502	Georgia
457	Washington
384	Tennessee
370	Arizona
351	Missouri
302	Indiana
288	Colorado
280	Oklahoma

Here are the top 25 vendors by attestation:

Attestations	Vendor
6330	Epic Systems Corporation
1847	eClinicalWorks LLC
1502	Allscripts
1158	athenahealth, Inc
999	Community Computer Service, Inc.
921	GE Healthcare
899	NextGen Healthcare
770	e-MDs, Inc.
712	Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.
567	Cerner Corporation
565	Sage
397	BioMedix Vascular Solutions
264	HCA Information & Technology Services, Inc.
256	MEDITECH
252	AmazingCharts.com, Inc.
239	Eyefinity/OfficeMate
210	meridianEMR, Inc.
206	McKesson
199	Sammy Systems
179	SOAPware, Inc.
174	Health IT Services Group
164	ChartLogic, Inc.
147	MedInformatix, Inc
144	Compulink