Emerging European Opportunities in Hospital IT

Frost & Sullivan
January 4, 2007
60 Pages - SKU: MC1432456
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Countries covered: Europe

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Emerging European Opportunities in Hospital IT provides an overview of advances in hospital IT solutions in the healthcare industry. It includes a description of the IT solutions that support clinical specialties. The study also offers a complete analysis of key market drivers, restraints, and trends prevailing in the European market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: enterprise solutions and stand-alone solutions.

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Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
  • Enterprise solutions
  • Stand-alone solutions
Technologies

The following technologies are covered in this research:
  • Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
  • Clinical IT Systems
  • Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Market Overview

Need for Complete Linked Healthcare Network to Promote Uptake of Hospital IT Solutions


The IT market has influenced various industries, including the European healthcare industry. The assistance of IT solutions with respective domain expertise is a crucial factor contributing to the growth of hospital IT systems. These systems have been an integral part of healthcare for the past few years and are expected to experience growing importance. With the need to improve treatment processes, healthcare service providers are increasingly relying on IT solutions, thereby offering significant growth opportunities for hospital IT vendors.

"The growing use of information technology in several industrial sectors has highly influenced the healthcare sector and the benefits of IT complement the linked network," notes the analyst of this research service. "Solutions supporting healthcare are witnessing consistent growth as they align the complete channel of operations in the healthcare system." Moreover, with pressure from the governments to develop a more mature healthcare IT industry across Europe, the need to have a complete linked healthcare network in the region will offer growth opportunities to healthcare IT vendors.

Integration Capability of IT Solutions Crucial Factor in Deployment

Clinical IT systems assist in overcoming scarce resources, including the time available to healthcare providers. These solutions perform with high variability and ardently support a cost - benefit value proposition. Customised stand-alone solutions are witnessing sluggish growth due to the intense competition from enterprise solution providers. These solutions are generally provided for services such as nursing, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology. Although enterprise and individual hospital IT solutions are both present in the healthcare system, demand for each solution will depend on the approach of hospitals. The success and stability of these solutions will be determined by the integration capability of their software modules. Integrating the hospital enterprise is an effective method to optimise the use of healthcare IT solutions.

"The entry of global participants into the European healthcare market has created greater need for domestic healthcare IT vendors to develop solutions which can be easily integrated," says the analyst. "Also, healthcare organisations generally prefer enterprise solutions supplied by the global vendors." Thus, local vendors would do well to broaden their product portfolio, which will create opportunities to supply solutions as an enterprise package that covers all the functionalities in a hospital or primary care trust. Currently governments in Europe are taking initiatives such as the Connecting for Health (CfH) by the NHS in the United Kingdom and the Dossier Medical Personnel (DMP) in France. These projects are commissioned on a large scale and will increase the usage of hospital IT solutions. Most of the hospitals across western Europe possess information systems for administration purposes. The installation of clinical solutions will happen within a period of three years, depending on the functionalities required by hospitals and primary care trusts. Also, hospital IT solutions that have matured in a particular market in Europe are likely to create visibility in neighbouring regions.


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