What healthcare sector CIOs predict about health IT in 2017?

Date posted: Tuesday 3 January 2017

Healthcare and wellness industry in India surprisingly is among the many sectors that is seeing a gradual rise in adoption and investment in new technologies and innovation or IT. With increased digital adoption, the Indian healthcare market, which is worth around $100 billion is likely to grow at a CAGR of 23 percent to $280 billion by 2020. It’s quiet interesting to know how these top CIOs are evaluating some of these new technologies and using them to enable their healthcare organisations gain operational efficiencies and improve business functions. These CIOs are expecting a huge impact of digital health records and solutions, IoT devices, mobility, big data, cognitive and predictive analytics, imaging intelligence, and cloud on healthcare sector in 2017. Also, design thinking in clinical applications to spur greater adoption by clinicians will gain even more traction. The trend of investment in technology is increasing in recent past three years or so because the kind of customer expectations today is to have everything on the mobile and that is growing up as they see from the retail industry.

(ET CIO)

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