As new technology increasingly is adopted by healthcare organizations, a variety of new drivers are emerging that will affect how IT is used to enable better care. IDC FutureScape looked at the following drivers to make predictions about where healthcare IT will support care delivery over the next three to four years.
Those drivers include technology-centric transformation altering business and society; the impact of artificial intelligence and automation; the new data centric paradigm; cyberthreats; revolutionized processes that are expanding the reach of technology; consumer expectations; and sustainability.