Date - 20 April 2010     No of Pages - 21

Hospitals are increasingly automating the delivery of healthcare services to make the care process more efficient. This is because digital records (provided by the HIS) integrate various tasks and are more efficiently manageable than the medical records stored in the paper format. Also, hospitals are increasingly venturing into new areas of integrated capabilities; such as connecting medical devices that help reduce healthcare costs, while improving the quality of patient care. Thus, setting a trend of transforming information into intelligence.

The Hospital Information Systems are increasingly becoming person-centric; enabling clinicians at the point of care to access the most up-to-date results and clinical information. Also, browser-based information systems are gaining momentum, as they facilitate immediate access to results and clinical information. Thus, HIS helps in shaping the healthcare delivery services by optimizing and automating patient flow and care delivery. Further, HIS helps create a secure, transparent and open network for data sharing to improve disease management; in turn, improving satisfaction among patients, physicians, and hospital employees.

HIS offers several benefits, such as providing seamless connectivity and managing information, thus, offering secure access to patient information. Further, hospitals' effort to become patient-centric, enhance patient safety and manage their resources and revenue stream in a better way continues to drive the demand for HIS. In addition, the increased government support to digitalize the healthcare delivery services offers potential growth opportunity to the HIS market. However, there are several factors influencing the HIS market, such as integration policies, high cost of HIS, and high post sale support & maintenance expenses.

This report highlights scope of the Global Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors and a few major vendors in the market.

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