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I've been collecting worthwhile info in this wiki since 2010. Some links may not work (mostly because noted companies have moved on). Since 2024, most of the edits are on the AI page. ~ Pallav

Broad Topics

• Artificial Intelligence: AI seems to be having a PR resurgence since Google bought DeepMind in early 2014. Needless to say, the applications in health are broad and with huge potential and this list tracks notable companies that focus partially or completely on applying AI to health. My favorite books on AI are also noted here.

• Care Coordination: Solutions that focus on making it easier for different stakeholders (family, relatives, clinicians, social worker, care manager, etc.) in the extended care team to work with one other in context of a single patient's care. There is no consensus or explicit definition, but this paper from NQF is mostly right about what Care Coordination means.

• Population Health Management: Healthcare IT software related to managing a large group of patients. Includes vendors offerings that have to do with registries, research cohorts, patient panel management, etc.

• Advanced Analytics: A forward-looking style of information analysis focused on continuous and iterative investigation of past performance to drive business planning and estimate future performance. Predictive modeling is perhaps the most widley recognized technique in this category, but there are others. This list contains information around Advanced Analytics news, resources and offerings.

• Communication: With the market focus on interop and care transition, several firms have started claiming to solve the communication-silo problem in healthcare. Real-time, secure exchange of messages across organizational and team boundaries is an inspiring dream. Current approaches to it span HIE names, Secure Texting vendors, Secure Emailing etc.

Narrow Topics

• Interop Companies: Companies that are explicitly creating APIs or platforms to tackle EHR data access and interoperability issues.

• Clinical Domain Specific: Some of the interesting companies have chosen a particular clinical specialty as their target market. Like Dermatology, Mental Health. Offerings typically include marketplaces, telemedicine, etc.

• Niche Healthcare IT Companies: Firms offering specialized, sometimes informatics-heavy products. Most have not seen significant market traction. They are noted here because of the somewhat unique pedigree or solution or target market. Mostly, they focus on opportunities not directly addressed by big players in Healthcare IT industry.

• Scheduling: Some offerings in the market are specifically focusing on scheduling issues in healthcare. They range from the often-thought-about topic of patient appointment scheduling, to less-known but more intricate topic of staff scheduling. Scheduling is potentially a future sub-domain that can sustain independent yet viable vendors.

• NLP & Speech Recognition: List of companies that have offerings based on healthcare-specific Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Recognition technology.

• Medication Related: A curious sub-category that can fit in couple of parent categories elsewhere. Extracted here to study on it's own since it has the special property of crossing care settings very easily (meds remain a relevant context before, during and after a healthcare encounter). There has been an upsurge in medication-related startups in the recent past.

• Digital Medicine: Buzzword-like category to keep track of companies that are creating software interventions that may qualify as actual clinical interventions (diagnostic, therapeutic) one day.

• Insurance: Startups that are disrupting the traditional health insurance carrier industry, using new approaches like digital tools, prevention focus, etc. Also includes software companies that are helping customers create value-based payment (VBP) models and commercial bundled payment programs.

• Blockchain: This core technology behind cryptocurrencies has the ability to solve multiple issues in healthcare information sphere since it enables the decentralized trust management. This list tracks the legitimate attempts at applying blockchain to health information.

• Hardware Platforms: These are (were) the players putting forth physical computing devices with healthcare focus (eg. built to withstand bumps, disinfection, spills etc). This category was fascinating in early 2000's, but now mostly lifeless. Preserved only for bemusement and posterity.

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