Global (Non-US) Healthcare IT Trends 2024 Navigating Organizational Priorities amid Labor, Budget, and Regulatory Pressures

As healthcare organizations face tight labor markets, constrained budgets, staff burnout, and government regulations, their priorities and investment plans for healthcare IT are shifting. To understand these issues and resulting priorities, KLAS interviewed 219 healthcare organizations in 42 countries/territories about their priorities for IT investments, plans for leveraging the cloud, and consideration of consulting firms for future engagements. This report also examines how priorities have changed since KLAS' previous report on these trends in 2023. (This research focuses on countries outside the US. See this report to learn more about US organizations' investment priorities.)

Key Findings:

• 1. Clinical Priorities: EHR/Digitalization Remains Top of Mind
• 2. Non-Clinical Priorities: Accelerating Cloud Strategy & Adoption Are Driving Focus on Infrastructure
• 3. Plans for Cloud Adoption Continue to Grow, Particularly in Canada; Cloud Maturity Still Slow, but Europe Sees Steady Adoption & Oceania Sees Jump in Early Adoption
• 4. Microsoft Azure Has Strongest Cloud Mindshare; AWS Seeing High Energy in Pockets of Asia and Latin America, Low in Europe and Middle East/Africa
• 5. Gartner Most Considered for Future Engagements amid Larger Trend to Keep Consulting Projects In-House