Adoption of HIS leads to quicker diagnosis, quicker treatments and overall happier patients.

Hospital Information Systems play an important role in providing a platform to shift traditional healthcare procedures to modernised digital processes with greater efficiency and better returns on investment. It provides an access to data/information in real-time from any point in the hospital and thus contributes to quicker diagnosis, quicker treatments, improved delivery of care and much happier patients.

(PRWEB) December 25, 2003 --Research and Markets announces the addition of the 2003 Market Forecast Report on the "Americas Hospital Information Systems (Including PACS and iHIS)"

The American hospitals are rapidly migrating their existing Hospital Information System (HIS) to integrated Hospital Information System (iHIS). Hospital Information Systems play an important role in providing a platform to shift traditional healthcare procedures to modernised digital processes with greater efficiency and better returns on investment. It provides an access to data/information in real-time from any point in the hospital and thus contributes to quicker diagnosis, quicker treatments, improved delivery of care and much happier patients. This report observes that he migration to iHIS is faster in the AMERICAS although it varies in pace from region to region. The Latin America Market will show the slowest pace of migration. Given this rapid market migration, many HIS vendors are taking full benefit and are actively developing solutions for the integrated environment.

The AMERICAS HIS Report provides market trends, drivers, competitive analysis and issues experienced in this region. It provides total market forecast at the AMERICAS level for the segments of; Patient Data Records, Financial Information Systems, integrated Hospital Information Systems, Picture Archiving and Communication Systems and other systems. The report also sheds light on the distribution mix of the revenue spent on these systems towards the end of the forecast period.

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