With more electronic health record systems continuing to fall short of providers' expectations, a new report by Black Book Rankings suggests that 2013 may indeed be the "year of the great EHR vendor switch."

After polling some 17,000 active EHR adopters, report officials found that as many as 17 percent of medical practices could be switching out their first choice EHR by the end of the year.

"The high performance vendors emerging as viable past 2015 are those dedicating responsive teams to address customers’ current demands," said Black Book's Managing Partner Doug Brown, in a news release.