European IT Opportunity: Healthcare
Health Industry Insights' European IT Opportunity: Healthcare service provides detailed information about the European healthcare market. It offers a detailed focus on IT adoption trends in healthcare, including electronic patient records, ADT, PACS, and patient accounting. Health Industry Insights' analysis includes estimates on information and communication technology (ICT) spending in the sector, primary end-user research, analysis of vendors' go-to-market strategies, and continuous monitoring of the market to reveal the most recent initiatives and identify success stories. It leverages the consolidated tools and methodologies developed by IDC's Vertical Market Center for this sector.
Approach
This service develops comprehensive data and unique analysis through focused topical surveys, secondary research, and insights from industry experts, practitioners, and vendors. Since 2003, Health Industry Insights has been conducting ongoing quantitative and qualitative research with provider, life sciences, and payer consumers, enabling us to assess and track historical trends. To ensure relevance, Health Industry Insights' analysts work with subscribers to identify and prioritize specific topics to be covered in research reports.
Topics Addressed
Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics in the healthcare sector:
- Structure and performance indicators: Number of agencies and employees as well as expenditures
- IT spending: Hardware, software, and IT services spending in the healthcare market and subverticals
- End-user surveys
- Major IT vendors' competitive assessment
- IT spending for electronic patient records
- Case studies
- Solution trends: ERP, CRM, and industry specific
Key Questions Answered
Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:
- How much does the healthcare sector spend on IT by country and by subvertical?
- What are the opportunities for electronic patient records in Europe?
- What are the initiatives and opportunities for key solution areas (e.g., ERP and CRM) in the European healthcare sector?
- Which are the major IT vendors in the healthcare sector?
- Which are the industry-specific ISVs in the healthcare sector?
- What is the level of adoption of enterprise solutions, storage, and open source software in the healthcare sector?
Who Should Subscribe
This service is ideally suited to support the needs of systems integrators, specialized healthcare vendors, and large horizontal IT vendors - marketing, sales, product management, and services.
Return on Your Research Investment
The core benefits of this service for vendors are:
- Strategies for focusing on the European healthcare markets
- Recommendations for sales strategies and key performance indicators with an organization's strategic goals
- Guidance for increasing focus on selected countries or subsegments
Standard Subscription Deliverables
This service is offered on an annual subscription basis and provides access to all of the following deliverables:
- A full 12 months of documents providing intelligence on market developments and direction along with informed commentary and recommended actions
- Access to the analyst team for further discussions and explanation (one-hour increments)
- Preferential pricing on purchases of other services
- Complimentary tickets (3) to an EMEA Health Industry Insights Executive Conference each year
- Complimentary invitations to regular telebriefings and Web conferences
Lead Analyst
The European IT Opportunity: Healthcare service is led by Massimiliano Claps. Claps is Research Director for EMEA Health Industry Insights. In this position, he analyzes and anticipates key trends and forecasts on IT strategies and spending in the healthcare provider sector of Western Europe overall and in the major European countries. Claps' research looks into the structure and composition of national healthcare services organizations by major agency types, the dynamics of public budgets and procurement and their impact on IT spending, and the impact of the regulatory framework and of the European Commission's eEurope initiatives on IT deployment levels. With specific reference to information technology, Claps' research covers both IT spending size and forecasts segmented by traditional IT products and healthcare-specific functional areas, as well as competitive profiling and analysis of IT vendors targeting the European healthcare sectors. His most recent focus areas include electronic health records (EHRs) and personalized health.
Related Offerings
Health Industry Insights offers additional advisory services related to the healthcare sector, including deep analysis of the payer, provider, and life sciences segments as well as critical cross-industry business and IT collaboration.
In addition, our experts are available for proprietary consulting engagements to address specific client challenges or to customize the results of our syndicated research offerings.
