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Digitalisation and Smart Financing key to sustainable growth in healthcare

 24-Feb-16, Express Healthcare

Siemens Financial Services (SFS) commissioned and released a new research report on ‘Smart Financing in the Healthcare sector’ and reveals how it is set to be a game-changer for healthcare and related industries. The research was conducted with healthcare providers across 13 countries which revealed that organisations are facing four common pressures: demographic change; shifting patient expectations; requirement to reform and the rising tide of healthcare technology trends.

Digitalisation and Smart Financing key to sustainable growth in healthcare (c) SFS

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Digitalisation and smart financing have been recognised as the ultimate remedy for the increasing pressures in healthcare. Over half of healthcare CFOs surveyed are already using a range of financing techniques, among which asset finance is the most popular. More than half of the CFOs interviewed said investment in new-generation technology is ‘an urgent priority’.

Digitalisation and automation are seen as vital cogs to enable the transition, particularly with the move to early detection, value-based reimbursement models and population health management. In this respect, respondents cited three new-generation technology investment priorities: imaging and diagnostics; IT and electronic patient records management; surgery and surgical automation.

The interviewees came from public and private healthcare institutions in India, China, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the US.

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