US healthcare industry to spend $518 million on Infrastructure as a Service in 2015

By eGovInnovation Editors | Aug 11, 2011

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New research from In-Stat showed continued growth in the US healthcare and social services vertical, with healthcare spending on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) expected to reach $518 million in 2015.

Included in the study were firms providing healthcare and social assistance for individuals, which includes ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities, and social assistance.

"The healthcare vertical segment, across all sizes of business, and across nearly all product groups, is fast becoming the most robust business vertical segment in US business markets," said Greg Potter, Analyst. "Demand for cloud computing services in particular has exploded and we see nothing that would indicate that the trend won't continue at least through 2015."

Other findings of the study include: small businesses with 20 to 99 employees will be the fastest growing size segment in healthcare, growing over 35 percent from 2010 to 2015; enterprise wireless spending in healthcare will increase roughly 12 percent from 2010 to 2011; and healthcare public cloud computing spending will surpass $1 billion in 2013.