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Clinical Information Systems in Europe- Cardiology
Frost & Sullivan, Aug 2011, Pages: 104
Promise of Workflow Benefits to Drive Market Growth
Healthcare facilities in Europe are currently working to create a unified digital patient record. In tandem, medical imaging vendors are developing and offering CIS with advanced functionalities and easy integration capabilities with enterprise-wide information systems. As a result of such trends, image management-based information systems are set to witness revenue growth. The ability to increase departmental efficiencies and optimise workflow is the most critical feature and functionality that a CIS can offer. In addition to this essential feature, deploying a CIS allows the handling of other disparate tasks such as order management, patient and materials management and clinical information sharing.
“The increasing cardiology workload and insignificant reimbursements are driving the need for enhanced productivity solutions,” notes the analyst of this research. “The emergence of enterprise image and information management solutions will bring greater workflow benefits.” The workflow benefits of an enterprise-wide image management solution are also clear. The enterprise approach allows cardiologists, who have peripatetic working habits, to access their images from any DICOM-enabled location.
Developing Integration Capabilities between Different Modalities Poses a Key Challenge
The high infrastructural costs of installing CIS and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) pose a formidable purchase barrier. Unlike the radiology department, cardiology does not serve the rest of the hospital. Other departments in the hospital do not make use of cardiology PACS as extensively as they would utilise radiology PACS. “Therefore, hospitals are sceptical about investing in cardiology IT,” explains the analyst. “Some European countries like Spain and Italy are not even adequately equipped in terms of cardiology modalities, making it even more difficult to invest in an IT solution such as CIS and cardiology PACS.”
Research into the networked hospital environment reveals that cardiology PACS modules can depend on the existing radiology PACS infrastructure. Leveraging the existing radiology PACS infrastructure will prove appealing to the hospital management. “On the other hand, vendor consolidation is spurring the development of integrated solutions, which is allowing end users to adopt the single-vendor approach and purchase an integrated solution in which all the technologies are compatible and can communicate with each other,” concludes the analyst. “Vendors are constantly faced with the challenge of finding and executing the most workable core architecture and portfolio to facilitate integration capabilities between modalities and optimise workflow.”
Market Sectors
Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following countries in this research:
The United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden)
Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg)
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Clinical Information Systems in Europe- Cardiology provides a comprehensive analysis of the clinical information systems market with a particular focus on the cardiology information systems (CIS) market in Europe. It includes an analysis of the challenges affecting the industry, factors driving and restraining the growth of the market and opportunities that participants can look forward to during the forecast period of 2011-2017. Included is an examination of various sales models for CIS and various technology trends such as cloud computing and the software as a service (SaaS) model.
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