Frost Radar™: Clinical Decision Support Systems in North America, 2025

This Frost Radar™ benchmarks the growth and innovation activity of clinical decision support system (CDSS) vendors in their effort to provide end users with evidence to take the next best action. The CDSS role is evolving from just being the source of clinical knowledge at the point of care or facilitating clinical decision-making and workflow. New CDS platforms will integrate into adjacent administrative and financial workflows so that end users can utilize a single platform for most activities. By 2030, this expansion will include the operational segment as well, with vendors using organic and inorganic growth strategies to cover the entire continuum of clinical and operational decision-making.

Frost & Sullivan segments the CDSS market into four categories:
• Evidence/protocol includes referential and evidence-based content alongside medical guidelines.
• Workflow includes documentation, scheduling, billing, computerized provider order entry, and order sets. The solutions in this segment are primarily sold as a subset of the CDSS with a focus on operational efficiency rather than clinical efficiency.
• Analytics refers to the IT platform capable of supporting providers’ clinical decision-making and is customized based on end-user requirements.
• Point-of-care solutions include patient data derived from medical devices and remote patient monitoring. Electronic health record and clinical surveillance suppliers are included in this space. It includes rules-based engines capable of transforming data into actionable intelligence.

This Frost Radar™ benchmarks players in the point-of-care segment. These players also have a strong presence in the evidence/protocol segment.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.