The company is one of only five vendors included in the Leader category, which represents those vendors who are well positioned today through current capabilities and which are best positioned to gain market share over the next few years.
The rankings and assessments provided by IDC Health insights were based on examining each vendor's current capabilities and future strategies through a process of briefings, customer references and its own secondary research. The 16 vendors that were evaluated in this report include leaders in the industry that were chosen for their market share and penetration or their potential growth opportunities.
In positioning AxSys' Excelicare platform as a Leader, IDC Health Insights states that a key differentiator is that the Excelicare platform was built from ground up to support collaborative care across the continuum of care rather than designed to work within the ‘four walls’ on an institution. The report goes on to state that as Excelicare was primarily designed for the UK health system, the company understands the value of collaborative, coordinated and accountable care across boundaries. "Healthcare organisations looking for active care coordination functionality to manage any of the value-based purchasing strategies, including ACOs, patient centered medical homes, and bundle payments, should consider AxSys Technology's Excelicare," said Lynne A. Dunbrack, program director, Connected Health IT Strategies, IDC Health Insights and author of the report.
AxSys has 125 clients worldwide, including four enterprise Health Information Exchange's (HIEs) in the United States and customers across Canada, England, Ireland, India, and Scotland. The company’s key product, Excelicare, has all the core components to support chronic disease management, a personal health record (PHR), and for the US market, an ONC-certified complete electronic health records (EHR) module.
"The recognition given to AxSys in the IDC Health Insights report coming soon after Gartner naming AxSys as a Global Cool Vendor in Healthcare IT is testimony to the innovation and vision that has gone into creating the Excelicare platform," said Pradeep Ramayya, chief executive officer of AxSys Technology. "Our mission is to help organisations deliver care that is coordinated, personalised and quality assured so that patients are the beneficiaries of investments in healthcare reform and we believe that Excelicare is the right platform to make this happen."
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About Excelicare
Excelicare has a proven track record in delivering diverse clinical solutions to the NHS for over a decade and over the last three years is being increasingly adopted by major healthcare organisations in the USA and Canada. Globally, healthcare organisations are utilising the power of the Excelicare platform to deliver connectivity, integration of information and rich clinical functionality to thousands of providers. Excelicare is helping these organisations to build upon their existing IT investments without the need to rip-and-replace and offering the functionality they require to build a complete electronic patient record cost effectively.
Key features
Excelicare is a complete clinical IT platform for the acute and primary sectors which:
- Connects care providers and IT systems.
- Creates a composite summary record based upon HL7 CCD standards.
- Allows rich clinical apps to be built without programming.
- Standardises and co-ordinates care.
- Manages chronic diseases.
- Delivers tele-health and home-based care.
Key benefits
Excelicare provides many benefits including:
- Connected healthcare: Excelicare connects IT systems and all participants, including patients, in a healthcare community. It coordinates care through information sharing and messaging, tracks care against treatment standards and reports on deviations and outcomes.
- Active care co-ordination: Excelicare identifies patients requiring specialised care and implements evidence based care protocols. It manages care provider teams and creates timely alerts and sends appropriate notifications to ensure care is coordinated.
- Easier, richer ways to build clinical systems and engage with patients: From cancer care to diabetes management, users can design and build rich and complex clinical applications without the need for programming.
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