Frost & Sullivan: Developing Integration Capabilities Presents a Real Opportunity for Vendors in the European CIS Market

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Frost & Sullivan: Developing Integration

Capabilities Presents a Real Opportunity for

Vendors in the European CIS Market

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 18, 2012

- Vendors Face the Challenge of Executing the Most Workable Core

Architecture that Promotes Integration between Different Modalities

LONDON

,

June 18, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare facilities in

Europe

are

currently working to create a unified digital patient record. In tandem, medical

imaging vendors are developing and offering cardiology information systems

(CIS) with advanced functionalities and easy integration capabilities with

enterprise-wide information systems. As a result of such trends, image

management-based information systems are set to witness revenue growth.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.healthcareIT.frost.com),

Clinical

Information Systems in

Europe

- Cardiology

, finds that the market earned

revenues of

$54.5 million

in 2010 and estimates this to reach

$104.8 million

in

2017.

The ability to increase departmental efficiencies and optimise workflow is the

most critical feature and functionality that a CIS can offer. In addition to this

essential feature, deploying a CIS allows the handling of other disparate tasks

such as order management, patient and materials management and clinical

information sharing.

"The increasing cardiology workload and insignificant reimbursements are

driving the need for enhanced productivity solutions," notes Frost & Sullivan

Research Analyst Simone Carron-Peters. "The emergence of enterprise image

and information management solutions will bring greater workflow benefits."

The workflow benefits of an enterprise-wide image management solution are

also clear. The enterprise approach allows cardiologists, who have peripatetic

working habits, to access their images from any DICOM-enabled location.

However, the high infrastructural costs of installing CIS and picture archiving

and communication systems (PACS) pose a formidable purchase barrier.

Unlike the radiology department, cardiology does not serve the rest of the

hospital. Other departments in the hospital do not make use of cardiology PACS

as extensively as they would utilise radiology PACS.

"Therefore, hospitals are sceptical about investing in cardiology IT," explains

Carron-Peters. "Some European countries like

Spain

and

Italy

are not even

adequately equipped in terms of cardiology modalities, making it even more

difficult to invest in an IT solution such as CIS and cardiology PACS."

Research into the networked hospital environment reveals that cardiology PACS

modules can depend on the existing radiology PACS infrastructure. Leveraging

the existing radiology PACS infrastructure will prove appealing to the hospital

management.

"On the other hand, vendor consolidation is spurring the development of

integrated solutions, which is allowing end users to adopt the single-vendor

approach and purchase an integrated solution in which all the technologies are