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Morning Headlines 5/21/21
A new KLAS report on EHR market share in US hospitals finds that Epic gained the most in 2020, while Cerner saw its second consecutive year of net market decrease.
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Looks like a net shift of ~30,000 beds from Epic to Cerner in the United States. I think it raises a couple of questions – although # of hospitals are still roughly similar does this put a dent in the narriative that Epic and Cerner are the two biggest fish in the sea? Seems like Epic is starting to pull away on this one. Perhaps the DoD and VA contracts may have been a bit of a poison pill for Cerner.