By Healthcare Facilities Today

LONDON - Reportbuyer.com just published a new market research report:China Healthcare Industry IT Solution 2013-2017 Forecast and Analysis

This IDC study analyzes the current and future development trends in the IT market in China's healthcare industry, focusing on the development and trends in various main IT solution markets, as well as a competitive analysis of vendors. This study also presents the IT spending and the market size of each of the main IT products in the entire healthcare industry. Lastly, this study includes the market size of various healthcare industry solutions and five-year forecast.

"In 2012, the government of China continuously promoted healthcare reform, and the central and local governments continuously increased investment in medical informatization, which boosted the development of medical informatization. Coupled with the upgrades in hospital informatization, IT demands in the healthcare industry have increased greatly. All provincial and municipal healthcare authorities are making informatization plans and development programs for future information system construction. The concepts for constructing the public health, primary health, and local health systems are gradually becoming clear. The IT infrastructure and various application systems will be developed rapidly. There is a growing demand for large datacenters and large-scale systems integration, and they will grow into new hot spots of medical informatization. Informatization in 2013 will emphasize the accelerated construction of a national health information platform, which will interconnect with the information system platforms in the health informatization comprehensive pilot provinces. This aim is to boost the construction of regional health information platforms and information systems in main business fields such as public health, healthcare services, new rural cooperative medical system, drug supply, and comprehensive health management," says Leon Xiao, senior research manager, Vertical Industry and Consulting, IDC China.