Health IT, EHR systems, telehealth, and clinical technology
Black Book Research reports European healthcare organizations plan 10% annual budget increases through 2027, driven by EHR upgrades, cloud migration, and cybersecurity mandates.
The biggest update to healthcare data protection in a decade eliminates "addressable" safeguards—MFA, encryption, and annual penetration testing become baseline requirements by mid-2025.
Federal agency's Health Tech Ecosystem now includes major payers and vendors, making FHIR API alignment a de facto procurement requirement by mid-2026.
New Healthcare AI Adoption Index segments spending across clinical decision support, imaging, documentation, revenue cycle, and patient engagement—giving CIOs a peer baseline for FY26-27 planning.
New ISG sector analysis shows healthcare enterprises actively funding cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms for core operations, not experiments. RFPs now require measurable administrative friction reduction.
The December 22 HTI-5 rule eliminates 57% of current EHR certification requirements, pivoting security obligations to FHIR API endpoints. Health systems must rearchitect access controls and audit capabilities around API traffic by February 2026.
2,472 US telemedicine deals since 2015 signal a maturing market. New fundraising fell from 146 to 131 deals in 2024, while M&A moved virtual care into device and pharmacy ecosystems.
Allied Market Research projects interoperability spending will quadruple to $21.54 billion by 2030 at 14.9% CAGR. Public health AI initiatives and tightening ONC/CMS compliance windows are converting integration from cost center to budget prerequisite.
New Azure pricing data shows GPT-4o-mini token costs drop below one cent per primary care encounter, shifting budget pressure from AI usage to integration and infrastructure.
Epic disclosed subscription pricing for its Showrooms cloud EHR—$500–$1,200 per provider monthly—with one system cutting IT operations costs 22% over five years by retiring on-premises infrastructure.
The Department of Health and Human Services now links federal grants and enforcement priorities to sector-specific cybersecurity controls, forcing hospitals to justify technology purchases against a compliance scorecard.
Global telehealth spending reached $210 billion in 2025 and will exceed $2 trillion by 2034, forcing enterprises to treat virtual care as core infrastructure rather than pandemic-era pilots.