HIMSS Analytics Market Insight Study Shows Picture Archive Communications Systems (PACS) Adoption Across Healthcare At High Level, Still Many Opportunities For Growth

HIMSS Analytics has announced the release of a new Essentials Brief study focused on Imaging Techonlogy. This study is a follow up to a similar study released at the end of 2014.

HIMSS Analytics’ latest Essentials Brief provides a look at the current state of the imaging market. While study respondents indicated a high level of PACS adoption across the industry there are some areas the study highlights as potential growth opportunities. The study looks into Enterprise Image Viewing adoption and plans for future adoption, current and future imaging point of access by technology and unique voice of customer feedback around the impact of the change in payment models and accountable care will have on imaging.

“While many organizations are comfortable with their PACS imaging technology, there seems to be some opportunity on an enterprise level to get as much information as possible into the hands of physicians at the point of care,” said HIMSS Analytics Research Director, Brendan FitzGerald. “Enterprise imaging viewing capabilities across numerous technology platforms could potentially aid in that effort.”

Key findings of the Study include:

• Voice of Customer (VOC) from nearly 150 respondents
• Year-over-year trending analysis of enterprise image viewing solution adoption, drivers and primary use cases
• Year-over-year insight into image storage trends showing potential beginnings of a shift to newer storage technologies
• Adoption of tablets and smartphones is relatively low in the current imaging market, however these technologies are still the most cited technologies for image viewing access plans

Click here(http://www.himssanalytics.org/research/essentials-brief-2015-imaging-technology-study?utm_source=release&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2015imaging) for more information on the 2015 Imaging Technology Study.

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