Health IT, EHR systems, telehealth, and clinical technology
Epic expands "Show Your Work" AI validation across 300+ health systems, setting new explainability standard that threatens third-party ambient scribe vendors and raises compliance costs for Oracle Health and MEDITECH.
Federal alerts confirm active attacks on file-transfer and remote-access tools widely deployed in hospitals and clinics. Buyers face tighter vendor due diligence and faster patch requirements.
New American Telemedicine Association guidance makes EHR integration a core procurement requirement, shifting enterprise budgets toward platform vendors that prove workflow interoperability.
Over 300 million patient records now run on Microsoft's healthcare cloud, anchored by Epic integrations. Health system CIOs face rising pressure to standardize FHIR workloads on Azure or risk higher switching costs.
22% of healthcare organizations now run domain-specific AI tools, up from 3% in 2024. Clinical-trial automation and EHR-integrated documentation are driving spend away from generic copilots.
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.