Analyst Profile

Silvia C. Piai

Senior Research Analyst, EMEA

Silvia Piai is Senior Research Analyst within IDC Health Insights and IDC Government Insights in EMEA. Since 2006 in her role, she supports the government, healthcare, and education research services for Western Europe.

Ms Piai analyzes and anticipates key trends and forecasts related to IT strategies and spending in national healthcare systems and in central and local government organizations in Western Europe overall, as well as in major European countries (UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France).

Ms Piai's healthcare related research looks into the structure and the composition of national health systems by major agency types; the dynamics of budgets and procurement and their impact on IT spending, as well as the impact of the regulatory framework on IT deployment levels.

Ms Piai's analysis offers in-depth coverage of the technologies that provide the most clinical value in terms of quality, cost, time, and agility and are transforming pre-care, point of care (POC), and post-care today. Analyzing the adoption and the investment plans of healthcare organizations Ms Piai describes the evolution of healthcare IT and gives key insight on primary factors shaping the industry and the implications for the coming year future.

Ms Piai graduated in international relations with a specialization in international economics at the University of Trieste (Italy).



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Western European Healthcare Sector 1Q10 IT Spending Forecast, 2010–2014 Silvia C. Piai, Jan Duffy Aug 2010 - Doc # HIOH54S      Pivot Table This IDC Pivot Table provides an overview of IT spending trends and forecast for the Western European healthcare provider sector for 2010–2014 (base year: 2009). This document comes with a downloadable pivot table that includes a compari ... purchase document

Building market momentum: Microsoft HealthVault hits the UK market. Silvia C. Piai, Lynne A. Dunbrack Jun 2010 - Doc # lcIT22397910      IDC Link The announcement of the launch of HealthVault in the UK comes a few months after the launch of HealthVault in Germany and just more than one year after the announcement for the Canadian market. While for Canada and Germany, the strategy was ...

Perspective: Western Europe, Healthcare Sector Deals and Initiatives, July–December 2009 Silvia C. Piai May 2010 - Doc # HIOH53S      Perspective This IDC Health Insights update describes the Western European healthcare sector environment in the second half of 2009 and discusses the macroeconomic and healthcare sector-specific trends. The main section reports the major ICT contrac ... purchase document

Western Europe Healthcare Sector: IT Spending Forecast Update, 2008–2013 Silvia C. Piai Mar 2010 - Doc # HIOH51S      Pivot Table This IDC Pivot Table provides an overview of IT spending trends and forecast for the Western European healthcare provider sector for 2008–2013. This document comes with a downloadable pivot table that includes a comparison with ... purchase document

Worldwide Healthcare IT Spending Guide, 2008–2013, Version 2 Scott Lundstrom, Nina Bonagura, Giuliana Folco, Silvia C. Piai, Gary Koch, Alex Kim, Alberto Balduzzi, Roman Maceska, Chin-Boon Lim Mar 2010 - Doc # HI222576      Pivot Table This Health Industry Insights Pivot Table presents our best estimates and forecasts for the worldwide healthcare industry IT opportunity. This Pivot Table provides IT spending forecasts for the provider and payer markets by key ... purchase document

"eHealth for Sustainable Healthcare: Global Changes Through Local Actions" — Is Europe Really Ready? Silvia C. Piai Mar 2010 - Doc # HIOH52S      Perspective In this perspective, IDC Health Insights analyzes the ehealth ministerial declaration for a European Cooperation on eHealth, adopted during the ministry high-level ehealth conference in Barcerlona in March 2010.: purchase document

Worldwide Life Science IT Spending Guide, 2008–2013, Version 2 Eric Newmark, Scott Lundstrom, Nina Bonagura, Giuliana Folco, Silvia C. Piai, Gary Koch, Alex Kim, Pavel Roland, Roman Maceska, Chin-Boon Lim Mar 2010 - Doc # HI222313      Pivot Table This Health Industry Insights Pivot Table provides our best estimates for the worldwide life science industry IT opportunity. This model segments the underlying data by customer segment, technology segment, and geographic regio ... purchase document

Realigning Public Services to Better Serve the Citizen: "Allons Enfants!" Silvia C. Piai, Alison Brooks, Ph.D. Mar 2010 - Doc # lcIT22231610      IDC Link Along with the first wave of decisions for implementing the "Ensemble simplifions" (Together, Let's Simplify) program and the official launch of mon.service-public, the French Ministry of Budget and the Secretary of State for the Developmen ...

EMEA Healthcare 2010 Top 10 Predictions Silvia C. Piai, Jan Duffy Feb 2010 - Doc # HIOH01S      Top 10 Predictions This IDC Health Insights report provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the EMEA healthcare IT market for 2010. IDC Health Insights expects that the healthcare market will continue to weather the current unstable economic conditi ... full document read | download pdf

Technology Selection: Healthcare Enterprise IT Adoption and Investments Plans (A European Survey) Silvia C. Piai, Jan Duffy Dec 2009 - Doc # HIOH06R9      Market Overview This IDC Health Insights report provides an analysis of the results of the 2009 survey covering France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. This study focuses on healthcare providers' priorities and investment plans in enterpri ... purchase document

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