Dive Brief:
- New data from Accenture projects that the United States will remain the world's largest EMR marketplace through the end of 2015, growing 7.1% until then.
- Accenture, which released its findings at this year's HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla., projects that the worldwide EMR market will hit $22.3 billion by year's end in 2015, with $11.2 billion of that estimate coming from North America and South America.
- Factors behind this growth include a push toward interoperability, regulatory priorities, and the Meaningful Use program.
Dive Insight:
Accenture's findings suggest that the Meaningful Use has been a considerable success, at least as far as getting the EMRs in the door. On the other hand, physicians are dropping out of the program, frustrated by the level of resources it takes to get beyond Stage 1. While the EMR market may continue to grow in the U.S., it's hard to tell if those who already adopted EMRs will be up to take them as far as policymakers had hoped, given the expense and the lack of needed IT talent facing some institutions.