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CEM Benchmark Release 2026.4: A broader standard for modern clinical education software
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Release 2026.4 expands the CEM Benchmark to 37 capabilities across seven vendors, adding a clearer public standard for APIs, security, automation, mobile workflows, and clinical education operations.
Clinical education software is being asked to do more than manage placements and clinical hours. Programs also need secure identity, governed data movement, mobile workflows, usable APIs, and evidence that stands up in an RFP.
Today we're publishing CEM Benchmark Release 2026.4.
A broader rubric for modern CEM software
Release 2026.4 updates the benchmark from 28 to 37 binary-scored capabilities across seven functional areas. Each capability is scored as cited or not cited. There is no partial credit and no inference from a vendor's market position or generic marketing language.
The new capabilities cover:
- Programmatic API access with documented reads, writes, and vendor-hosted signed webhooks
- Automated user provisioning
- Agentic operations with human review and an audit trail
- Product controls that gate protected health information
- Multi-factor authentication
- Any-device mobile workflows
- Clinical skills checkoffs
- Clinical site partner workspaces
- School-hospital data exchange for arrivals, capacity, and clearance
The release also combines REST reads, writes, and signed webhooks into one API capability. LTI is not scored. Third-party products that require a separate subscription or contract do not count as native platform capability.
Release 2026.4 results
The current release evaluates seven platforms against the same public-evidence standard:
| Platform | Cited capabilities | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| HealthTasks | 36 / 37 | 97% |
| Exxat | 30 / 37 | 81% |
| CORE Higher Ed | 27 / 37 | 73% |
| eMedley | 25 / 37 | 68% |
| Project Concert | 23 / 37 | 62% |
| Trajecsys | 18 / 37 | 49% |
| Typhon | 18 / 37 | 49% |
These are documented capability coverage scores. They are not measures of product quality, customer satisfaction, usability, market share, or overall suitability.
The benchmark scope now covers seven vendors. Medatrax and TracPrac are not included in Release 2026.4.
Why this is a new baseline
Release 2026.4 is not a simple refresh of the 2026.3 leaderboard. The rubric grew by nine capabilities, and the vendor scope changed. Scores should be read within the current release rather than compared mechanically across versions.
The methodology remains evidence-first:
- Find a public primary source from the vendor.
- Match the source to the capability definition.
- Record the URL, verbatim excerpt, and interpretation.
- Score the capability only when the evidence is specific enough to verify it.
A capability marked as not supported means the benchmark did not find sufficient public evidence under these rules. It does not necessarily mean the capability is absent or unavailable.
Use the benchmark in your next evaluation
Start with the Release 2026.4 results, then review the methodology and capability definitions. Teams that want to inspect or reproduce the scores can use the machine-readable dataset.
The CEM Benchmark is a public reference for programs evaluating clinical tracking, placements, compliance, evaluations, curriculum, reporting, and the platform controls around them.