Abstract
This IDC study provides an overview of healthcare-provider development and
structure in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, as well as
ehealth development policies. This study also contains results and analysis of
IDC CEMA' s flagship Health Industry Insights Survey, which involved in-depth
interviews with more than 300 healthcare providers in the region to provide
insight into IT staffing and organization; status with regard to EU-wide
ehealth targets (including European Health Insurance Cards - EHICs - and
development of electronic medical records); as well as present and future
trends in overall IT investment, wireless and mobile technology investment, and
IT security investment in the Central European healthcare sector.
"Healthcare providers in this region don' t invest in IT until they are forced
to. Vendors therefore need to monitor - and even be prepared to advise their
healthcare-provider clients on - EU- and country-level ehealth targets to best
capitalize on IT investment growth in the CE healthcare sector." - Heather
Keyes, Research Analyst, IDC CEMA
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Health Industry Insights Opinion
- In This Study
- Methodology
- Conceptual Framework
- Sample Design
- Sampling Unit: IDC' s Economic Entity
- Survey Sample
- Table: Respondent Distribution by Number of Employees at Year-End 2006
- Figure: Overall Annual Budget/Turnover of Respondents' Organizations in 2006
- Figure: Total Number of Patients at Healthcare Organization at Year End 2006
- Respondents
- Table: Employment Title of Healthcare Organization Interviewee
- Table: Functional Area of Healthcare Organization Interviewee
- Interviews
- Confidence Intervals
- Weighting
- Data Analysis
- Executive Summary
- Situation Overview
- Healthcare Systems in Central Europe
- Introduction
- Table: Largest (Number of Employees) Healthcare Providers in Central Europe, 2006
- Healthcare Provision in the Czech Republic
- Healthcare Provision in Hungary
- Healthcare Provision in Poland
- Healthcare Provision in Slovakia
- Recent Developments in the CE Healthcare Sector
- Development of IT in the CE Healthcare Sector
- eHealth Policy in the Czech Republic
- eHealth Policy in Hungary
- eHealth Policy in Poland
- eHealth Policy in Slovakia
- i2010 Health Targets
- Interoperability of EU Healthcare Systems
- eHealth Action Plan Commitment
- eHealth Services
- Electronic Health Insurance Cards
- IDC' s Health Industry Insights Survey Justification
- IT Organization and Role
- IT Staff
- Figure: Number of Healthcare Organization Dedicated IT-/IS-Support Employees
- Figure: Number of Infrastructure Developers in Healthcare Organization IT Department
- Figure: Roles of IT Department/IT Staff in IT Strategy Planning and Deployment of New Solutions
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Current Types of Operational Management for IT infrastructure
- IT Priorities
- Table: Ratings of the Urgency of Business-Support Development Methods in Healthcare Organizations (1 = "not at all urgent" and 5 = "extremely urgent")
- Table: Changes to Current Method of IT Operational Management Over the Next 12 Months
- IT Spending
- Figure: IT Spending in the Central European Healthcare Sector by Technology, 2006
- Figure: Allocation of Total IT spending by Business Areas
- European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
- Figure: Percentage of Patients with European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
- Figure: Change regarding the Proportion of Patients with European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs)Over the 2006-2007 Period
- Figure: Estimate Change regarding the Proportion of Patients with European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs)Over the 2007-2008 Period
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Implementation of Special Applications for European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs)
- Electronic Medical Records
- Figure: Patient Data Storage Methods
- Wireless and Mobile Technologies
- Figure: Types of Mobile End-User Devices Used to Access Corporate Resources in Healthcare Organizations
- Figure: Extent of Healthcare Organizations' Adoption of Wireless Networking
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Reasons for Not Using or Considering Mobile Solutions
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Statuses Regarding Employee Access to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Applications via Mobile or Wireless Technology
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Use or Planned Use of Mobile Solution Strategies
- IT Security
- Figure: Factors Driving Healthcare Organizations' Spending on Security Software, 2007
- Table: Ratings of the Threat of Healthcare Organizations' Network, Data, and Internet Security (1 = "the least serious threat" and 5 = "the most serious threat")
- Table: Healthcare Organizations' Implementation Stages Security Software Solutions
- Procurement
- Figure: Health Organizations' Primary Source of IT Products and services, 2007
- Figure: Sources Healthcare Organization Use to Procure Project-based IT Services/Solutions
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Preferred Company Type for IT Products and Services (Local or International)
- Table: The Importance of Specific Considerations in Healthcare Organizations' Choice of Primary IT Supplier
- Table: The Extent of the Influence of External Factors/Sources in the IT Provider Selection Process
- Future Outlook
- Business Outlook
- Figure: Healthcare Organizations' Outlook on Business Prospects
- Table: Healthcare Organizations' Rankings of the Importance of Business Initiatives in Leading Agendas for 2007-2008
- Healthcare IT Spending Outlook
- Figure: Compliance Aspects Increasing Healthcare Organizations' Spending on IT
- Figure: Healthcare Organization' s Main Areas of IT Focus for the 2007-2008 Period
- Figure: Expected Change in IT Spending Over the 2007-2008 Period
- Table: IT Spending (US$M) in the Central European Healthcare Sector by Technology and Country, 2006
- Table: IT Spending (US$M) in the Central European Healthcare Sector by Technology and Country, 2011
- Table: IT Spending (US$M) in the Central European Healthcare Sector by Technology, 2006-2011
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
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