Healthcare organisations across the globe are beginning to plan and embrace integrated solutions

Research and Markets have announced the addition of the 'Market Forecast 2004 Report: Global integrated Hospital Information Systems (iHIS) report to their offering.

(PRWEB) April 18, 2004 --With the growing trend to create 'paper-less and 'film-less environments, healthcare organisations across the globe are beginning to plan and embrace integrated solutions. TekPlus believes that by 2007 the integrated Hospital Information Systems (iHIS) market will be the biggest segment of the total HIS and PACS markets. TekPlus expects the Global iHIS market to reach $12.5 billion by 2007.

The iHIS solutions enables a healthcare organisation to ;

-         Automate workflow with fully integrated patient, financial and clinical systems.
-         Provide better patient care with improved real-time access to patient records.
-         Provide better-informed decision-making processes.
-         Reduce human errors.
-         Free some of the clinician's time spent on paper records for better patient-care
-         Justify their IT expenditure with better return on investment.
-         Reduce their long 'waiting periods.

The Hospital Information System (HIS) is formed by many systems that can be broadly divided into - Patient Data Record (PDR) systems, Financial Information Systems (FIS) and integrated Hospital Information Systems (iHIS). Eventually, iHIS will absorb PDR, FIS and many other smaller segments resulting in a stronger solution. Though this will take some years to happen, TekPlus believes that over time Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) will also loose its individuality and will become an inseparable module of iHIS. A radical revenue shift in the segments is resulting into a stronger iHIS market with very good growth rates. The TekPlus report on 'Global iHIS Market sheds light on this active migration from point HIS solutions to integrated solutions. TekPlus believes that integration of IT assets ensures better patient care with fast, real-time medical diagnosis and treatment.

The 'GLOBAL iHIS MARKET report by TekPlus observes the diversities of the iHIS markets across the world. The regions covered for this report are: AMERICAS (USA; Canada; and Latin America), EMEA (Germany; France; Italy; UK; Spain; Benelux; Scandinavia; Rest of Western Europe; Central, Eastern and Southern Europe and Middle East and Africa) and ASIA . The report provides regional forecasts, trends, drivers, competitive analysis and issues related to the market growth.

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