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Research and Markets: U.S. Medical Imaging IT Middleware - A Study of Customer Perceptions and Purchase Intentions in HospitalsDUBLIN --(Business Wire)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/crjwjv/u_s_medical) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's (News - Alert) new report "U.S. Medical Imaging IT Middleware" to their offering. A Study of Customer Perceptions and Purchase Intentions in Hospitals This is a repackaging of this research deliverable. During the fourth quarter of 2009, Frost & Sullivan conducted a Customer Research project titled Medical Imaging IT Middleware: A Study of Customer Perceptions and Purchase Intentions in the U.S. Hospital Market. The study aimed to provide the vendors developing, selling and implementing medical imaging IT middleware solutions with a sound basis to design and execute their growth strategies. 160 U.S. department heads in radiology an cardiology, staff radiologists, clinicians and hospital information systems administrators were targeted. Study results show that the that the most popular and most sought-after functions of medical imaging IT middleware in the current market involve components that: - Enable remote access to the systems in place, e.g. Web-enabling the incumbent PACS. - Allow interconnecting disparate PACS systems, e.g. in multi-site and multi-vendor environments - Allow the managing of images across distributed geographies, the most common in the current market, to be installed at to percent of surveyed facilities. A deeper interrogation of data uncovers various opportunities. One is the fact that the larger multi- site networks tend to have older PACS technology in place and are most actively looking to invest in medical imaging IT middleware to solve current challenges. Based on the economic vendor and product-related attributes most important to customers, the market appears to be oriented toward increasing productivity; the ability of IT middleware to boost productivity and efficiency is well recognized. The ability to support a higher procedure volume, driving cost reductions in data storage and leveraging former PACS/IT investments, is also considered an important to the decision to purchase new medical imaging IT middleware. There is a notable convergence in the perception of and expectations from imaging IT middleware across providers in various hospital settings. However, some middleware attributes resonate more in specific segments than in others. For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/crjwjv/u_s_medical Source (News - Alert): Frost & Sullivan |
