SPI Digital Health: Six Months On, Signify Research Reflects on its 2024 Predictions

Publication Date: 09/07/2024

At the beginning of this year, Signify Research predicted the top five trends that would shape digital health markets in 2024. At the approximate half-way point of the year, how have these predictions panned out?

Our Prediction: Health IT vendors will finally reap the revenue rewards of the large, state-funded health digitisation initiatives currently being rolled out in Europe. 

The Reality: The financial performance of Europe-focused inpatient EHR vendors seems to confirm that the benefits of initiatives such as the €3.4B ($3.67B) Germany Hospital Futures Act (KHZG), €1.1B-worth of EMR, imaging and telehealth contracts in Italy, France’s second Digital Health Roadmap plan and …