Forrester Forecasts Moderate ‘06 Hospital IT Spending Growth
Eric G. Brown, an analyst with Forrester Research, published his forecast on Hospital IT spending in 2006. At 3.1%, this year’s growth would almost match what’s going on in other industries, which would mean a change of pace for healthcare organizations known to spend little on information technology. Brown based his findings on a survey conducted in December with 33 large hospitals. Incremental spending is going to be allocated to new applications such as storage systems, disaster recovery (no doubt in the wake of hurricane Katrina) and integration projects. Other industries now spend most of their IT budgets on maintenance and operation of existing IT systems, but they usually have a more developped infrastructure to start with.
March 22, 2006 Related topics: IT & software