Trend Report

Demand Insights: Healthcare Budgets And Spending Trends

Data Shows Hospital IT Buyers Need Strong Business Cases And Proof Of ROI

Eric G. Brown
 and  one contributors
Sep 02, 2009

Summary

Hospitals' historically lackluster IT spending continues through 2009, with the recurring themes of low outsourcing, tight budgets, and focus on operational stability over innovation. But after years of waiting for widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), the US government's injection of $36 billion in incentives may finally move the needle. Sales teams will need to be ready to manage those two worlds — a desire to jump on the EHR bandwagon and a culture of IT as a utility — if they are going to successfully win their share of this soon-to-pop market segment.

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