Growth Opportunities in Enterprise Imaging, Global, 2023-2028

Medical imaging is no longer limited to radiology, and radiology software solutions are facing challenges in accessing and integrating patient data across health networks. As a result, healthcare providers are adopting enterprise imaging (EI) strategies to consolidate all patient data into a single platform to provide better access and improved data management across specialties or network sites. The consolidation of healthcare facilities has complicated enterprise operations and integrated delivery networks requiring appropriate solutions. Companies are creating integrated EI IT solutions to lower costs, reduce complexity, and enable seamless cooperation of all clinicians involved within the facility and beyond. Medical imaging IT vendors and other service providers are consolidating their service offerings to provide a one-stop solution. This boosts the EI concept, which involves image management solutions for entire organizations. Requirements for easy image management across the enterprise, enhanced efficiency, better interoperability, and low cost are some factors driving this trend. EI IT has increasingly been deployed on cloud infrastructure to improve the scalability and accessibility of imaging IT products and solutions. This Frost & Sullivan analysis focuses on the enterprise cloud imaging IT software solutions and services aspect of the market. The EI market is broadly segmented into four sub-segments—radiology, cardiology, digital pathology, and others. This study identifies the adoption rate of enterprise imaging in multiple specialties, which include ultrasound IT, orthopedics, and ophthalmology, among others. This study identifies the challenges that healthcare providers identify in the medical imaging industry and how imaging IT companies are trying to overcome them. As medical imaging data volumes increase, medical image management becomes crucial. Radiologist burnout, burden on IT teams, cyberattacks, asset optimization, and cost benefits are some of the major concerns when healthcare providers select imaging solution/services vendors. Hospitals and health systems face other challenges, such as siloed imaging data, complex and inefficient workflows, a range of disparate and often legacy systems, and the delicate balance of departmental needs versus enterprise goals. To overcome these issues, imaging IT companies have introduced a unified solution to these problems—the EI strategy, which has been in a relatively nascent stage until now. However, it is gradually being adopted in healthcare facilities, particularly through cloud infrastructure, and will grow swiftly in the coming years.