IDC Health Insights
Social networking will play a major role in an emerging healthcare delivery model that also explores the role of mobile technology in supporting collaborative teamwork, a new report from IDC Health Insights said.
Although the Asia-Pacific region is yet to witness widespread adoption of cloud services in the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are looking at cloud adoption beyond short-term benefits such as pay-per-use models, no implementation costs, and out-of-the-box features.
As healthcare organizations evolve toward accountable care, they will need to deploy Health Information Exchange (HIE) capabilities to facilitate patient-centric care collaboration, a new report by IDC Health Insights www.idc-hi.com said.
IDC Health Insights is expecting the market for electronic medical records/electronic health records (EMR/EHR) to grow from less than 25 percent in 2009 to over 80 percent by 2016 in the United States.
Singapore's healthcare organizations are now in the final stage of their technological journey, which is the creation of a nationwide Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Research firm IDC sees this initiative as being in line with the government's e-Government Masterplan 2011-2015 (eGOV15).
Digitizing medical records through initiatives such as electronic health records (EHR) remains the top priority of healthcare providers across the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region in 2011, a recent report by IDC Health Insights said.
Oracle topped IDC Health Insights' 2010 Top 10 Life Science Software Vendor list for the second consecutive year.
A new study by IDC Health Insights suggests that supply chain visibility and business intelligent solutions are on the forefront of tech spending for life science companies this year.
With new healthcare reform policies at the forefront of Japan’s political agendas, IDC Health Insights believes that both the government and healthcare sectors will invest heavily in technologies that promote preventive care, and bring about greater operational efficiency and improvements in patient-centric services.
Heavier investment on technologies for preventive care and patient-centric services will stem from Japan's recent policy changes that will reform the healthcare sector, IDC Health Insights reveals.
