SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce
[NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today announced that
Salesforce Health Cloud was named a leader in the Forrester
Research, Inc. July 2017 report The
Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Health Clouds, Q3, 2017. The report
evaluated 10 vendors based on 37 criteria grouped into three
categories: strategy, current offering and market presence.
Salesforce received the highest possible score in the strategy
category. Health Cloud also received the highest scores possible
for patient engagement and governance under the current offering
category.
"Increasingly, we see healthcare organizations adopting modern
cloud platforms to engage patients, improve care and lower costs,"
said Dr. Joshua Newman, Chief
Medical Officer, Salesforce. "With Salesforce Health Cloud, these
organizations are building deeper patient relationships to support
healthier outcomes. We believe that being named a leader in the
Forrester Wave validates the work we have been doing to move the
industry from a focus on patient records to patient relationships
and recognizes our position as a leader in this important and
growing market."
According to Forrester, Health Cloud "brings together clinical
and non-clinical data from Salesforce's customer relationship
management (CRM) software to create a comprehensive view of each
patient's interactions and health status. Salesforce provides
pre-built analytics capabilities with its HIPAA-compliant Einstein
Analytics ... Salesforce does provide a massive community of
developers and tools to help its customers ramp quickly. Its
AppExchange program gives customers a selection of prebuilt
applications and microservices for the platform, which is a
differentiator in the current market."
About Salesforce Health Cloud
Salesforce Health Cloud
is a premier patient and member relationship platform that
harnesses the power and security of the cloud, as well as social
and mobile technologies, to deliver more personalized engagement.
It accomplishes this by providing a complete view of the patient,
intelligent care collaboration and a connected patient engagement
experience. With Health Cloud, care teams have easy access to
clinical and non-clinical patient and member data including current
health conditions and medications, appointment history,
communication preferences and data from electronics health records
and other systems. Teams are able to work smarter across entire
patient and member groups to provide insightful care faster.
Additional Information
- The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Health Clouds, Q3 2017 is
available here: http://salesforce.com/healthcloudreport
- Salesforce Health Cloud website:
http://www.salesforce.com/healthcloud
- Salesforce Health Cloud datasheet:
http://www.salesforce.com/healthclouddatasheet/
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