European IT Opportunity: Healthcare

The European IT Opportunity: Healthcare service provides detailed information about the European healthcare market. It offers valuable insights into IT solution trends in healthcare, including electronic health records; admission, discharge, transfer; PACS; and patient management systems. IDC Health Insights' research and analysis covers information and communication technology (ICT) spending based on primary end-user surveys and interviews, vendors' go-to-market strategies, and continuous monitoring of the market. The analysis delivered by this program leverages healthcare-specific, consolidated tools and methodologies developed by IDC's Vertical Market Center.

Approach

This service develops unique and comprehensive analyses of data, focused on providing actionable recommendations.

Relevant market data is collected through IDC Health Insights' proprietary research projects, along with ongoing communications with industry experts, health industry players, and technology vendors, complemented by secondary research from conferences, publications, and third-party news sources. To ensure relevance, our analysts work with subscribers to identify and prioritize specific topics to be covered in research reports.

Topics Addressed

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics in the healthcare sector:

  • Top 10 predictions for 2011
  • Data management in the healthcare environment
  • Hardware, software (healthcare-specific and non-healthcare-specific applications), and IT services spending
  • Analysis of major hardware, software, and IT services vendors' market position
  • Best practices associated with IT-enabled human capital management in healthcare
  • Health 2.0: Role of the Internet in future healthcare
  • IT-enabled integrated healthcare service delivery

Key Questions Answered

Our research answers the following questions, this information is critical to your success in the healthcare market:

  • How much does the healthcare sector spend on IT by country and by sub-vertical?
  • What are the opportunities for healthcare-specific applications like electronic health records in Europe?
  • Does the Cloud have a future in healthcare IT?
  • How is healthcare addressing virtualization and security concerns associated with data management?
  • Who are the major hardware, software, and IT services suppliers in the European healthcare sector?
  • What is the level of adoption of enterprise solutions, storage, and open source software in the healthcare sector?

Who Should Subscribe

The European IT Opportunity: Healthcare service is ideally suited to support the marketing and sales departments and healthcare product, solution, and services managers of IT vendors targeting the European healthcare market.

Return on Research Investment

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Core Benefits for Technology Solution Providers

  • Information about best practices adopted by European healthcare providers
  • Strategies for successfully addressing the European healthcare market, including improved marketing and sales strategies
  • Objective analysis of the market size and opportunities related to your target market

Standard Subscription Deliverables

IDC Health Insights values building client relationships and strives to foster a partnership with each client through continuous analyst interaction; concise delivery of current, timely, and relevant research; as well as custom research when needed. Each advisory service delivers strategic research covering business and technology issues. A summary of the basic service deliverables available to subscribers includes the following:

  • Analyst inquiry time specific to the advisory service area
  • 24 x 7 research access via www.idc-hi.com
  • Discounted admission to specific IDC Health Insights or IDC conferences
  • Complimentary forum invitations (Web conferences, industry briefings)

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Our IDC Insights Community is designed to enable technology buyers to engage with our industry analysts, share knowledge and best practices, and connect with colleagues. To participate in our community, members create a profile to:

  • Participate in our discussions in our blogs, forums, and polls
  • Learn about and share best practices, tips, tricks, and tools related to business/technology alignment
  • Network with colleagues and join groups within each industry
  • Provide feedback to IDC's industry analysts and hear what we're up to

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Related Offerings

Related offerings to our industry-specific research practices include IT Spending Guides — segmented regional and country-level analysis by solution area; Go-to-Market Services (GMS) — a modular set of deliverables to assist clients in extending their market reach, validating their market strategy, and producing more responsive customer-centric marketing campaigns; Global IT Advisor (GITA) — a flexible, cross-disciplinary research service providing granularity in market information and analysis across a wide range of technology areas; and IDC Advisory Tools — a growing set of solutions designed to ensure clients that technology purchasing and deployment decisions are optimized. In addition, IDC Health Insights experts are available for individualized consulting engagements to address specific challenges or to customize the results of our syndicated research offerings.