Top Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Companies Report

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What is clinical decision support?

Clinical decision support solutions encompass digital tools and systems that assist healthcare professionals in making clinical decisions for diagnosis, treatment, and management by providing them with evidence-based information, guidelines, and recommendations.

The case for clinical decision support

As healthcare systems face increasing challenges in providing high-quality care, addressing inefficiencies and costs, and tackling the effects of clinician burnout, clinical decision support systems offer promising solutions to address those challenges, including:

  • Improving patient care, quality, and safety
  • Addressing healthcare inefficiencies and cost and
  • Enhancing provider experience and efficacy

The integration of advanced clinical decision support (CDS) tools is paramount not only for enhancing patient outcomes but also for optimizing operational efficiency. By leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics, CDS systems empower healthcare providers to make informed, evidence-based decisions that are crucial in today’s fast-paced medical environments. Investing in robust CDS can ensuring that clinical practices are proactive in their approach to patient care and also allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

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Introduction to the report

The Top Clinical Decision Support Companies Report is a resource designed to guide healthcare professionals in their quest for exceptional operational and customer oriented solutions. This report offers perspective on prominent provider documentation companies as reflected in the client reviews gathered on AVIA Marketplace and presents a selection of leading-edge solutions and companies.

This report is organized around client reviews that provide insight into the impact these solutions have had with the organizations they work with and include concise summaries that could assist in pinpointing solutions tailored to your unique needs. Our AVIA Marketplace serves as an additional resource, facilitating access to detailed company profiles, verified client lists, comparison of various solutions, and Match Scores to streamline your selection process. For even greater depth, AVIA experts are available through a Marketplace Product Review (for digital health solutions) and AVIA Membership (for hospitals and health systems). Ready to learn more? Send us a note!

Our methodology

The data that powers this report stems directly from the AVIA Marketplace, informed by reviews and by the number of verified health system clients associated with each company featured in the marketplace. In observance of confidentiality agreements, the complete client lists may not always be available from vendors.

Please note that the data presented is dynamic and subject to change over time. Therefore, we advise that decisions drawn from this information should be made judiciously, backed by thorough consideration.

AVIA's perspective and report limitations

Please note that this information does not reflect the opinions or views of AVIA as a whole, or AVIA Advisory Services. Rather, it reflects data captured on AVIA Marketplace at a point in time. This data is subject to change over time.

We at AVIA acknowledge the diverse strategies hospitals employ when selecting technologies. The reviews herein can offer valuable insight, but we also encourage considering other factors, like EMR integration, experience with clients similar to your organization, or overall market presence, which may prove pivotal in decision-making. We endeavor to provide a comprehensive analysis on these other aspects as well.

Our unique Product Grid, powered by our proprietary Match Score, is a useful tool to consider in your evaluation process. This methodology ensures that the products featured not only meet the buyer’s specific requirements but also exhibit solid market establishment.

Top-rated clinical decision support companies

The top-rated clinical decision support companies were the most-reviewed within their product category. Companies in this section have all received the “top-reviewed” recognition and the order does not indicate a ranking.

Avo

5.0  

Avo’s clinician support platform empowers healthcare organizations to standardize care and reduce burnout by effortlessly incorporating guidelines and protocols into the clinical workflow. By centralizing the latest information and transforming it into actionable tools in the EHR (or outside of it), Avo simplifies everyday tasks like pre-charting, care planning, documentation, ordering, and more.

Avo was built for clinicians, by clinicians. Randomized control trials have shown that Avo saves clinicians 50% of their time on average and has improved admission delays to the ED by 30%. Importantly, nearly 100% of Avo users advocate for more Avo use cases after implementation. At Avo, we believe there is a better way to standardize care – with love, not alerts.

4.88  

At Andor Health, our mission is to change the way care teams connect and collaborate. By harnessing machine and human intelligence, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in electronic medical records to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams – both inside and outside of their enterprise. By optimizing communication workflows, our solutions accelerate time to treatment, decrease clinician burnout, and drive better patient outcomes. Built on an AI/ML framework, healthcare institutions and clinicians can self-configure the signals and workflow actions as you would any device connected to the internet, and personalize the intelligence they need at the right moment in time to provide better care.

5.0  

EvidenceCare is a unique type of clinical decision support system (CDSS) with its EHR-integrated and content-agnostic platform that empowers better care decisions by improving clinical workflows.

Founded in response to the professional experience of emergency physician Dr. Brian Fengler, the platform provides clinicians with evidence-based insights and measurable outcomes that improve hospital margins.

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, EvidenceCare is a 2x honoree of the INC 5000 list of fastest growing companies, a 2x Fierce Healthcare Best Product winner, and one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare.

5.0  

Xealth enables healthcare teams to order digital content and services as easily as they do orders and medications today. Patients can then access these digital health prescriptions from the provider’s portal, so that they can actively manage their health. 

5.0  

PeriGen offers innovative perinatal software solutions that incorporate advanced statistical analysis features to enhance clinical efficiency and standardization of care during childbirth. Led by skilled OB practitioners and IT visionaries, PeriGen has created the PeriWatch® platform to provide consistent analysis and efficient display of complex data in real-time to promote better human recognition and communication about impending problems during labor. With PeriWatch®, clinicians can spend more time on direct patient care and less time on manual calculations and data manipulation.

5.0  

ReferralMD delivers proven solutions for Digital Front Door, eConsults, Referrals, Faxing and Marketing that help hospitals, health systems, networks, and payers streamline the referral process, decrease patient leakage, and improve communication between providers and patients. The enterprise platform matches patients with the most appropriate providers and closes the feedback loop between providers and patients. The solution’s powerful workflow and clinical decision support tools help healthcare providers increase revenue, drive operational efficiencies, and improve customer service.

5.0  

Elevate medical practice by earlier disease detection and improved diagnosis via more accurate data collection, better risk and symptom assessment, faster charting, and increased revenue by higher level E&M billing. Now, achieve better outcomes in less time for more money.

Discover SOAP, a patented and clinically validated, Epic, AthenaHealth, etc. EHR-integrated, conversational AI-powered patient and physician-facing interface for more accurate patient data collection and analysis; an unrelenting focus on improving patient outcomes and eliminating administrative burdens. 

5.0  

From the very start, VirtuAlly was crafted by some of the sharpest minds in the virtual care space. Born out of a leading Academic Medical Center, this was a shared effort in collaboration with one of the only three Telehealth Centers of Excellence.

As the healthcare industry continues to navigate through exceptional challenges and never-before-seen pressures, we’re grateful for the opportunity to influence positive change. With a focus on providing top-quality Virtual Sitting and Virtual Nursing services to patients, caregivers and staff members we are the ALLY for those who need it most. For patients, we provide a layer of safety by reducing incidences of falls, prevent self-harm and suicide attempts within variety of institutions across the country. For caregivers, we’re providing the peace of mind and a second set of eyes is looking after your loved one. And for bedside care staff, we are partnering to optimize a culture of safety at your institution. 

4.5  

Bright.md’s asynchronous telehealth solution lets providers treat low-acuity conditions virtually, without a real-time interaction—all while driving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. With evidence-based clinical content and seamless integration into your existing workflows, Bright.md automates administrative work to allow providers to practice at the top of their license.

Health systems around the country, including Baptist Health, Prisma Health, UnityPoint Health, CoxHealth, OHSU, ProHealth Care, and many more, choose Bright.md to improve patient access to quality care, alleviate administrative burden on providers, stay competitive with a convenient, consumer-centered experience, and reduce costs of delivering low-acuity care.

5.0  

At AgileMD, we are building the most advanced real-time predictive analytics and clinical pathways platform for hospitals.

To date, AgileMD tools have been used on more than 4 million patient encounters by more than 135,000 clinical users in over 250 hospitals, including some of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. AgileMD’s eCART clinical deterioration prediction software is FDA cleared and the first AI-powered early warning device for ward patients to go through the FDA process with real-world prospective data. 

AgileMD is backed by premier start-up partners MATTER, YCombinator, and Rock Health, and our cutting-edge analytics are built on more than decade of ongoing research at the University of Chicago. In 2021, AgileMD garnered nearly $3 million in combined federal research and development funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

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