What You Ought to Know:
– KLAS Analysis has launched its annual “World Acute Care EHR Market Share 2025” report, offering a complete take a look at EHR gross sales exercise in 2024. The report highlights a dynamic world market the place EHR initiatives stay a excessive precedence for healthcare organizations worldwide, second solely to AI initiatives. In 2024, the variety of new EHR contracts reached a five-year excessive, but the variety of hospitals impacted by these contracts surprisingly dropped to a five-year low.
– KLAS validated 246 EHR selections impacting 550 hospitals and over 122,000 beds throughout 43 completely different nations and territories, with 39 completely different EHR distributors chosen. The report particulars that fewer large-scale regional selections had been finalized in 2024 in comparison with earlier years.
World Developments: Extra Contracts, Smaller Scale
Regardless of a five-year excessive in new EHR contracts, the entire variety of hospitals impacted by these selections decreased to a five-year low in 2024. This means a shift in direction of extra selections being made by standalone hospitals or smaller hospital teams, reasonably than massive regional initiatives.
Regional selections validated by KLAS in 2024 included Austria, Canada, France, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, and the UK. Whereas multiregional distributors noticed a smaller share of 2024 contracts, smaller, standalone selections usually favored native, lower-cost options.
World Acute Care EHR Market Vendor Exercise Highlights
A number of key multiregional and regional distributors confirmed notable exercise in 2024:
- Dedalus: Had one other sturdy yr in 2024, contracting for the best variety of beds for the third consecutive yr. They had been chosen by 24 organizations throughout 8 nations in Europe and Latin America. Dedalus gained almost double the variety of contracted beds in comparison with the next-highest vendor.
- Epic: Chosen by 7 organizations in 2024, Epic’s second-highest variety of contracts since 2020. Key wins included Singapore’s Ministry of Well being increasing Epic to its third and last public hospital cluster (over 6,000 beds) , and a provincial-wide choice in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, giving Epic the most important market share in Canada.
- InterSystems: Chosen by 9 organizations throughout 6 nations within the Center East, Asia, and Latin America. This represents their second-highest positive aspects in 5 years, impacting 28 hospitals and roughly 6,300 beds.
- Oracle Well being: Skilled their lowest variety of contracts within the final 5 years, with solely 2 validated contracts in England, additional increasing their market share lead in that nation.
- MEDITECH: Noticed their second-highest variety of net-new hospitals since 2020, with new prospects in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania.
- IQVIA: Chosen by non-public hospital teams in Southeast Asia.
- Regional Distributors:
- Nexus AG & MipihSIB (Europe): Confirmed strong development, significantly in France and Germany.
- Aosta & Trio Tree (Asia): Expanded outdoors India, with Aosta being chosen by 12 standalone hospitals in India (4 with over 1,000 beds) and Trio Tree gaining a country-wide choice in Mauritius.
- Nervecentre (UK): Had a breakout yr, chosen by 5 NHS trusts, greater than doubling their footprint in England.
- Cloud Options (Center East): Their VIDA platform was chosen by a big well being cluster in Saudi Arabia impacting 21 hospitals, the most important public contract within the Center East in 2024.
Regional Breakdown of EHR Exercise
- Europe: Remained the area with the most important variety of hospitals impacted by EHR selections. Exercise was largely pushed by France (GHTs and personal sector) and the UK, with important pushes for EHR adoption amongst much less digitally mature trusts. Austria and Germany additionally noticed important selections.
- Latin America: Hit a five-year excessive in contracts in 2024, with Brazil persevering with to steer exercise. Standalone hospitals drove a lot of the buying. InterSystems and Philips had been essentially the most lively distributors in different Latin American nations.
- Asia: EHR buying exercise was excessive, bolstered by a surging Indian market, the place KLAS validated a number of new distributors for the primary time.
- Center East: The variety of impacted hospitals and beds rebounded to a five-year excessive, pushed by digitalization efforts in Saudi Arabia, significantly for rural hospitals inside well being clusters.
- Canada: Exercise was on par with 2023 ranges. Epic’s choice by the province of Newfoundland and Labrador gave them the most important market share in Canada.
- Africa: KLAS validated 7 contracts, masking 25 hospitals and round 4,500 beds. Trio Tree secured a big country-wide choice in Mauritius.
- Oceania: Quiet in 2024 after a record-setting 2023, with solely 2 small contracts validated. Nonetheless, a number of large-scale private and non-private selections in Australia are anticipated to finalize in coming years.
