European Hospital Information Technology Budgets to Increase Over the Next Three Years

The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain collectively spend over $6 billion on healthcare IT (HCIT), and the regional HCIT adoption stands at almost 80 per cent. Healthcare data continuity, patient engagement and experience, healthcare cloud, population health management, Big Data and analytics, and healthcare cybersecurity are areas that offer untapped growth opportunities. However, the identification of growth opportunities is only the first step towards succeeding as a vendor in this market. Players must shift focus from HCIT solutions that can capture data to solutions that can enable data sharing, clinical decision support, and value propositions that target and understand specific customer needs.