IDC Health Insights Reveals Winners of 2016 IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings Top 25 and Enterprise Top 25

Optum and IBM ranked #1 on inaugural global vendor revenue rankings

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--()--IDC Health Insights today revealed the winners of the 2016 IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings. These rankings feature the leading global information technology (IT) suppliers to healthcare payers and providers. The IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings are notable for their global breadth and accuracy in recognizing new benchmarks for the leading global vendors of healthcare IT hardware, software and services. These rankings appear in two separate categories:

  • The Top 25 features the largest companies that derive more than one-third of their revenue from healthcare payer and/or provider institutions. The largest of the Top 25 companies is Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.
  • The Enterprise Top 25 features the largest companies that derive less than one-third of their revenues from healthcare payer and/or provider institutions. The largest of the Enterprise Top 25 companies is IBM.

For the first time in an increasingly interconnected healthcare industry, these rankings publish the global IT revenues of the top healthcare IT vendors. The IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings exhibit these revenues with accuracy and methodological rigor. The IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings offer payers, providers, and other healthcare organizations firm foundations for enhanced strategic decision-making. To download the IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings in their entirety, please click here.

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"IDC Health Insights is excited to release its inaugural edition of the IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings. A first in the industry, these revenue rankings offer an invaluable industry benchmark of the leading global technology and IT service suppliers within the healthcare payer and provider services industry," said Lynne A. Dunbrack, IDC Health Insights Research Vice President.

For more than 50 years IDC has collected and analyzed IT industry data. Beginning this year, IDC Health Insights is systematically collecting global healthcare IT revenue information and tracking the growth of the largest healthcare industry IT vendors. Leveraging the proven methodology of the long-standing IDC Financial Services FinTech Rankings, healthcare IT vendor data has been analyzed by a global team of IDC Health Insights analysts. The analysts have used their understanding of global trends and industry contacts to create accurate rankings and explicitly put the information in the context of recognized industry definitions. Both the buyers and suppliers of healthcare IT can use the data with confidence to enhance their strategic decision-making.

Top 5 Vendors of The Top 25:

  1. Optum
  2. Cerner
  3. McKesson Technology Solutions
  4. GE Healthcare
  5. Epic Systems

Top 5 Vendors of The Enterprise Top 25:

  1. IBM
  2. Siemens
  3. HP Co.
  4. Royal Philips
  5. Microsoft

Please visit here for further details on the rankings and follow on Twitter @IDC. For additional information, please contact Sarah Murray at 781-378-2674 or sarah@attunecommunications.com.

About IDC Health Insights
IDC Health Insights assists health businesses and IT leaders, as well as the suppliers who serve them, in making more effective technology decisions by providing accurate, timely, and insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Staffed by senior analysts with decades of industry experience, our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the payer, provider, and life sciences industries. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology market. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology, media, research, and events company. For more information, please visit www.idc-hi.com, email info@idc-hi.com, or call 508-935-4445. Visit the IDC Health Insights Community at http://idc-community.com/health.

Contacts

Attune Communications
Sarah Murray, 781-378-2674
Partner
sarah@attunecommunications.com
or
IDC
Samantha Ortiz, 508-935-4354
Sr. Marketing Specialist
sortiz@idc.com

Release Summary

IDC Health Insights today revealed the winners of the 2016 IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings, featuring the leading IT suppliers to healthcare payers and providers.

Contacts

Attune Communications
Sarah Murray, 781-378-2674
Partner
sarah@attunecommunications.com
or
IDC
Samantha Ortiz, 508-935-4354
Sr. Marketing Specialist
sortiz@idc.com