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U.S. Cardiology Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) Markets
Frost & Sullivan, June 2003
Increasing Digitization of Cardiology Image Storage and Management Creates Market Growth Opportunities
The number of cardiology imaging facilities in the United States is growing significantly each year. However, the number of cardiac procedures is growing even faster. As a result, cardiology-imaging administrators are searching for efficient ways to handle the steadily increasing workload. The management of physical, CD, video, and film libraries using most of the existing database packages involves a lot of manual work, and is a major cost center for cardiology departments. Cardiologists and technicians are becoming aware of the operational benefits of increased digitization. The cardiology image archiving and distribution system is one of the ways in which end users are responding to the drive for greater efficiency.
This research service analyzes the U.S. markets for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS). It provides an analysis of market drivers, restraints, and forecasts, identifying areas of growth. The study provides an in-depth coverage of two of the most important end-user segments, echocardiography and cath laboratories.
Enterprise-wide Integration is an Important Area for Future Market Development
With a high growth rate both in terms of business activity as well as revenues, major market participants are well positioned to reap further benefits. While echocardiography and cath labs are currently the largest segments, a growing trend toward integrating enterprise-wide systems is expected to increase opportunities for vendors that can offer solutions that tie together data and images from multiple modalities and departments.
The most intensely contested area for future development is enterprise-wide solutions, where information from cath labs, echocardiography, computed tomography, MRI, nuclear medicine, hospital information systems, clinical information systems, and many other databases can be accessed seamlessly from a single point of interaction, says the author of the study.
Competition among Large Companies Intensifies
Acquisitions are seriously altering the competitive landscape of the PACS market, and creating opportunities for the development of more integrated product offerings. Once controlled by niche participants that only focused on departmental solutions, the market is now dominated by major multi-modality imaging vendors. Rather than treating cardiology image management as an isolated solution, these vendors are integrating their cardiology PACS offerings with other data systems, including clinical records, hemodynamics, and multiple imaging modalities.
As the market transitions to a higher degree of digitization and integration, the competition among these major companies is all set to intensify. The goal for the future is to create solutions that provide access to the complete digital integrated cardiac record (DCIR), a concept analogous to the electronic medical record (EMR) that emerged from radiology PACS, says the analyst.
Additional Information
The following technologies are covered in this research:
Cardiology Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS): Cardiology PACS is defined as a coherent system including a networked digital archive (with on-line and near-line storage components), dedicated reading workstations, and all associated software required to store, manage, and view cath laboratories and echocardiography images. Although PACS solutions exist for other cardiology modalities, including intravascular ultrasound, nuclear cardiology, and computed tomography, this study focuses exclusively on market indicators relating to cardiac catheterization and echocardiography.
Cardiology Workstations: Workstations used for diagnostic image viewing in cardiology typically include a high-resolution monitor (flat panel or cathode ray tube), a high-performance video card, and a personal computer platform. Dedicated displays may also be located beyond radiology. These displays are not ordinary desktop PCs. Only high-resolution displays (typically at least two-megapixel) are considered in this research.
Cardiology Image Archives: These servers are directly responsible for storing and managing the digital cardiology studies, both on-line in the form of magnetic disk arrays and near-line in the form of optical disk jukeboxes or magnetic tape libraries. This segment includes all associated database, imaging management, network, and hierarchical storage management (HSM) software systems that are pre-configured for storage system.
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