Report Makes Predictions on Effects of Health Care Trends on IT

The International Data Corporation has released a report that outlines predictions for global health care trends and discusses the effects of health IT, Healthcare IT News reports (Ratchinsky,Healthcare IT News, 11/5).

Details of Report

The report lists 10 predictions about trends in health care over the next three years. Each prediction includes:

• Guidance for action; and
• The effect of health IT.

The report also:

• Identifies areas of health care business that will be affected by the trends;
• Prioritizes investments; and
• Shares each initiative’s relative cost and complexity.

According to IDC, “major themes” among the predictions are:

• Demand for advanced analytics and new data sources;
• Movement in the direction of personalized medicine;
• Security and the effect of breaches in health care;
• The availability of third platform technology — which includes mobile, social, big data and cloud computing — and innovation accelerators to enable digital transformation; and
• Ubiquitous access to mobile technology (Burghard et al., IDC report, November 2015). For the full article click here 

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