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This IDC Survey Spotlight presents key findings from IDC's Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey regarding industry clouds.

"Healthcare organizations have widely embraced industry clouds and will continue to do so," stated Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, Public Sector at IDC, "because they accelerate speed to value with built-in integration, provide artificial intelligence tools to enable complex decision making, and help ensure regulatory compliance."

This IDC Survey Spotlight is based on IDC's April 2023 Worldwide Industry CloudPath Survey, which surveyed 100 U.S. providers and 100 U.S. payers cloud decision makers.

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This IDC Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' overview of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the worldwide medical devices market in 2Q23. This is the fourth in the new quarterly series of reports launched by IDC Health Insights following the expansion of its in-depth research coverage of the global medical devices industry.

"As medical device organizations worldwide navigate an increasingly complex healthcare landscape, the industry continues to focus on harnessing digital technologies to enhance efficiency and business performance, maximize value for customers, and align with the shifting healthcare paradigm toward patient-centricity and care personalization." — Research Manager Nino Giguashvili, IDC Health Insights

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This IDC Market Glance highlights healthcare provider operational IT solutions in Europe for 3Q23.

"As healthcare organizations strive for more digitalization, they face obstacles in transitioning to new care models based on personalization and integration of services along the patient journey," said Adriana Allocato, research manager, at IDC Health Insights Europe. "Workforce shortages, inflation, supply chain constraints, reduced budgets, and depleted resources are pushing healthcare organizations to increase their investments in workflow and operational effectiveness solutions to eventually accommodate new processes and address the more competitive requirements of an increasingly private healthcare market."

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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation identifies the digital transformation (DX) use cases associated with life science strategies and provides guidance on how to prioritize them to develop a DX road map.

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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a road map over three time horizons to prioritize deployment of each of the digital transformation use cases found in IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation Use Case Taxonomy, 2023: Value-Based Health (IDC #US51044123, August 2023). Every organization should evaluate its own digital transformation strategy against the road map and make adjustments as needed based on regional and organizational circumstances.

"As healthcare organizations continue to modernize infrastructures to support cost-effective, high-quality, and equitable care, investments in AI, machine learning, and emerging generative AI tools are driving the goals of efficiency and automation while necessitating the need for careful use case vetting and strategic road map creation to ensure success." — Lynne Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights

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This IDC study discusses digital transformation (DX) in national governments and its influence on prioritizing use cases for investment as well as the mission and strategic priorities that are driving technology spending.

"As national governments invest in digital resiliency, areas of focus will include investments in cloud to extend the reach and reliability of digital services, business intelligence, and AI/ML to better leverage data and improve decision making; modernizing the work environment for employees; and greater investments in technologies that ensure sustainability and assure trust, including cybersecurity." — Adelaide O'Brien, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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This IDC Market Presentation provides insights into the top 10 fastest-growing European agile work use cases from the IDC Worldwide Digital Transformation Spending Guide — April 2023 (V1 2023). For each use case, this report guides vendors in moving technical conversations with traditional IT contacts to use-case-based conversations with workforce executives (e.g., chief human resource officers, chief talent officers, chief learning officers) and broader line-of-business (LOB) and IT audiences, serving as a reference for sales pitches. The report:

• Highlights workforce personas involved in steering, financing, and influencing use cases and how they should collaborate to ensure the successful implementation of the use case
• Understands workforce-specific and overarching technology as well as architecture requirements
• Provides detailed examples of end users working and implementing each workforce/workplace/workspace-related use case

"European CEOs are still eager to invest in digital and technology solutions to enable a hybrid workplace as well as to attract and retain talents and skills, showing how workforce-related technologies still have high growth potential. On average, the use cases in the agile work lane grow faster than broader digital spending, a market still growing at a double-digit growth rate," said Erica Spinoni, senior research analyst, European Digital Business Practice and Future of Work.

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This IDC Market Glance analyzes the landscape of information and operational technology providers offering solutions for railway operators worldwide.

Railways business and operating models are increasingly relying on technology solutions that are used to support passenger experience, operations, traffic control business process, and the underpinning data, platform, and infrastructure and connectivity solutions. IDC's research shows that railways are investing in technology innovation to achieve four interdependent strategic business goals:

• Increase operational efficiency, while targeting net-zero impact​
• Increase capacity utilization by combining intelligent scheduling, dispatch, and traffic control systems to increase frequency of travel and smart predictive operations to help prevent delays and disruptions 
• Ensure that efficiency goes hand in hand with safety and security, even with higher utilization rates thanks to digitally enabled physical security systems, regulatory compliance of operations and cybersecurity​
• Increase revenue growth through innovative service offerings, often by making train stations the anchors of a mobility-as-a-service ecosystem

A handful of global rolling stock OEMs dominate the supply of trains and have expanded their offerings to deliver train traffic control systems, energy management systems, operations and maintenance professional services, and cybersecurity services.

However, due to advances in AI, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and edge computing, drones, 5G, and advanced human-to-computer interfaces as well as the proliferation of sensor and location-based data, a wide variety of other technology vendors have launched offerings for railways in areas such as predictive maintenance and operations, digital twins, journey planning and booking, passenger marketing, ticketing and loyalty programs, and cybersecurity.

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This IDC Perspective analyzes trends and best practices in the fast-evolving market for video surveillance solutions for transportation hubs, such as airports, train stations, bus stations, subway stations, and ports.

"Transportation hubs are key nodes of global passenger and freight transportation infrastructure and economic growth engines for the regions where they are located. To deliver on their strategic goals while reducing risks, transportation hubs operate expensive assets, complex operations, and high-volume services that expose them to physical security and safety risks. To tackle those risks, they are investing in modernizing video surveillance solutions so that they can realize the benefits of security and safety use cases as well as customer experience, operational effectiveness, and environmental sustainability use cases," said Massimiliano Claps, IDC Government Insights research director.

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This IDC Market Note analyzes Google Cloud announcements that prove its continued commitment to the cloud market in Germany, particularly its partnership with T-Systems to develop their joint sovereign cloud offering.

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This IDC Innovators profiles three emerging vendors: Current Health, Huma and TytoCare. These companies offer to the global healthcare and life sciences ecosystem innovative digital health solutions for remote patient engagement and virtual care to enable patient-centric healthcare delivery models and decentralized clinical trials. IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenues more than $100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both.

"Technology-enabled virtual care solutions have become pivotal at the intersection of healthcare and life sciences to support remote patient monitoring and engagement, driving a transformative shift toward new, patient-centric models of health care delivery and clinical research," said Nino Giguashvili, research manager, IDC Health Insights. "Following the period of exponential surge experienced throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care has now reached a critical juncture that will shape its future trajectory. The vendors featured in this report exemplify the evolution of business models and value propositions, as they work toward seamlessly integrating, standardizing, and scaling the scope of virtual care within the broader patient journey," said Silvia Piai, research director, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of digital business developments in Europe in 1H23. It covers news, significant deals, policy announcements, regulatory actions, emerging technology developments, and investments that could impact markets locally and regionally. Companies featured include Accenture, Atos, AWS, Clearview AI, Deutsche Boerse, DXC, IKEA, Intel, Getir, Max Planck Society, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Unilever, Three UK, Vodafone, and Volkswagen/CARIAD.

It also highlights results from IDC's European Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Surveys, which examines end-user sentiment around major concerns and IT investments. Due to significant momentum driven by generative AI, this presentation also provides a snappy and snackable overview of the most important news and developments in this area.

"Since the beginning of the year, there has been growing confidence among European organizations to increase IT spending, especially comparing the January–June period year over year. In fact, the share of companies planning to increase IT spending has almost doubled. This is a clear sign that European companies consider technology and digital investments as pivotal to balance risk mitigation in the pursuit of new opportunities to survive and thrive amid uncertainties," said Erica Spinoni, senior research analyst, European Digital Business Strategies and Future of Work.

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This IDC Market Note provides a summary of the AHIP 2023 conference held in Portland, Oregon.

"It is impossible to divorce data, trust, AI, and equity," says Jeff Rivkin, research director, Payer IT Strategies at IDC Health Insights. "Perhaps that is why the AHIP 2023 panels focused on equity and trust, and then conversations inevitably evolved to data and AI. The AHIP conference has changed its name and faces over the past few years, but the core challenge of payers is still navigating the interconnectedness of it all."

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This IDC study discusses how healthcare organizations are on a mission to digitally transform to create a value-based healthcare system, even though they may not use the term digital transformation as extensively as other industries such as retail or financial services do. While the pandemic drove unprecedented adoption of virtual visits and other forms of remote care, the number of use cases powered by a range of artificial intelligence technologies, especially with emerging generative AI capabilities, will continue to grow in 2023 and beyond.

"Building on their investments in cloud, intelligence data management, and connected health technologies to enable care anywhere, healthcare organizations are increasing their investments in AI, machine learning, and emerging generative AI tools to streamline clinical workflows and further refine their plans for reimagining the delivery of care," says Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Market Presentation contains an industry analysis perspective that offers foundational insights into the European healthcare sector in 2023 for sales, marketing, and product/channel managers at technology companies. By comprehending the sector's structure, financing, and operations as well as its impact on individual and population health, managers can pinpoint areas in healthcare operations and subverticals in which their technology products and services can make a real difference.

This report delves into key healthcare parameters, funding and governance models, delivery systems, and the driving forces behind ICT spending of major healthcare provider (HCP) organizations in Europe in 2023.

"Tech vendors in the European healthcare sector should tailor sales and marketing strategies to meet the unique needs of each country's healthcare system. Collaboration with local players and a focus on improving patient health outcomes will lead to success," Federico Mayr, research analyst, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Market Presentation provides IDC's Industry Market Forecast for European healthcare. It provides technology vendor product managers and those responsible for market/competitive intelligence with an industry overview of IDC spending guide forecasts numbers as well as insights into the regional healthcare market context influencing that spend for 2023.

This report includes:

• IDC's ICT market forecast for healthcare enterprises in Europe
• IDC's market forecast for IT applications for European healthcare enterprises
• Insights into key drivers and inhibitors that have impacted and will impact IT application investment sentiment in the European healthcare industry

This document also highlights recent initiatives by countries and organizations while providing top-level advice for technology suppliers for pursuing a business strategy that considers the whole healthcare ecosystem.

"As healthcare organizations in Europe face unmet needs, workforce shortages, and budget pressures, ICT spending will continue to rise. Technology suppliers can support these organizations by addressing country-specific challenges, enhancing operational efficiency through AI-driven automation, and ensuring seamless integration for improved health outcomes," said Federico Mayr, research analyst, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Perspectives analyzes smart and sustainable roads intended not only for the instrumentation of roads with sensors and actuators to enable intelligent traffic management use cases, but also from a wider perspective of enabling innovation through the convergence of multiple industries.

"IDC defines smart and sustainable roads as the intelligent use of technology across road design, construction, operation, maintenance, usage, and upgrade and recycle of materials to reduce cost of ownership and increase environmental sustainability across the design, construction, operation, and maintenance life cycle of physical road elements; enhance convenience, affordability, accessibility, safety, and environmental sustainability for the movement of people and goods; and increase prosperity by enabling businesses to profit from new and existing economic activities related to designing, building, operating, maintaining, using, and decommissioning roads," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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This IDC Survey is designed to provide insight into the supply chain challenges and opportunities companies across the life science industry are facing and their current priorities, the drivers of change in the strategic focus of their supply chains, the impact of the ongoing disruptions, the progression of supply chain transformation, and the use of modern, digital technologies.

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This IDC Market Perspective discusses price transparency at AHIP and in the healthcare industry.

"One year in, the industry should take a pause and reflect on the fiction that is executing. Price transparency has snowballed from a politician's talking point to legislation to regulation to an expensive, ongoing administrative facade," states Jeff Rivkin, research director, IDC Health Insights. "The exchanged data is seriously flawed, and even if the data was good, the vast majority of consumers do not have the time, money, patience, medical literacy, or desire to actually shop for procedures. Similarly, payer-provider contract negotiations based on inaccurate, non-standard product, network, and rate data are an equivalent absurdity."

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This IDC PeerScape analyzes how governments are aspiring to improve citizen experience and trust need to understand individual citizen needs, ensure accessible and inclusive digital services, and offer convenient, secure, interoperable services across programs and layers of government.

"Siloed investments in citizen relationship management (CRM) applications, electronic signature, and omni-channel self-service portals are no longer enough. Forward-looking governments are delivering on the promise of making the bureaucracy invisible for citizens and businesses by investing in data integration that can yield intelligent understanding of individuals' and businesses' needs, simplifying and joining up services across programs, partnering with the private sector, and ensuring inclusive digital services," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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To underpin these investments, railways must modernize their connectivity infrastructure, because legacy connectivity capabilities are obsolete and fragmented across use cases and railway lines as well as increasingly exposed to security threats.

Railways need to design strategic road maps and action plans to migrate to the next generation of 5G (and then 6G) technologies to take advantage of enhanced reliability, security, and performance. In the context of the 5G migration, the FRMCS will play a particularly important role in replacing GSM for railways (GSM-R). It must be noted that IDC does not expect all use cases to converge onto 5G, for all types of railways, from urban to suburban to interurban. Other technologies, such as WLAN and satellite, will continue to play a role; nonetheless, a 5G-centric road map will offer railways the opportunity to rationalize their connectivity environments.

The road to 5G is not without barriers such as difficulty in securing funding, the risk of adopting technology without widespread availability of precedent customer stories, and complacency with existing technologies. Railways will have to:

• Make strategic choices about deployment model, high-priority railway lines, and use cases to build clear 5G/FRMCS investment cases that help secure funding.
• They need to shift to a new mindset and skills that see 5G/FRMCS not just as a move away from GSM-R, but also as an opportunity to move forward to innovate.
• They need to be proactive in working with standards bodies such as 3GPP, UIC, and technology vendors to influence solution road maps that can deliver reliable, interoperable, secure connectivity capabilities that support business innovation.

This IDC PlanScape provides railway operators and railway network executives with a framework to make strategic choices about the deployment of next-generation 5G solutions. It also elaborates on the stakeholders to be involved, the investments to be made, and the benefits and risks.

"5G/FRMCS is not only a switch over to a new standard — it represents an opportunity for railways to push the boundaries of customer-centric service innovation and intelligent, safe, and sustainable operations. But to get it right, railways must align strategic road maps, organizational change, and collaboration with the ecosystem," said Massimiliano Claps, IDC EMEA's lead transportation analyst.

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This IDC Perspective analyzes the strategic role that governments can play to scale the electric mobility market. They can support infrastructure development, issue and enforce regulations, influence standards, provide incentives, orchestrate partnerships, promote awareness, collect data to inform emobility planning decisions, and use electric vehicles in their own fleets.

"By actively supporting and promoting electric mobility, governments will contribute to the growth of sustainable transportation and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. To successfully support and promote electric mobility, governments should choose right timing of the strategic roles that they want to play; invest in people competencies, process requirements, and technology capabilities that enable them to execute on their strategic vision; and engage with a broad mobility ecosystem," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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This IDC Market Glance highlights the healthcare provider clinical IT solutions for 2Q23. "Healthcare organizations are increasingly recognizing the relevance of greater healthcare data interoperability, seamless integration, and effective data sharing to support primary strategic business priorities such as improved quality care, reduced costs, enhanced care coordination, accurate population health management and better health equity," said Adriana Allocato, research manager, IDC Health Insights. "However, the opportunity and the challenge to capture and standardize health data and make them intelligible and actionable requires a stronger health information technology and a centralized governance strategy that positively impacts the intelligent automation of clinical processes."

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This IDC Market Perspective covers the latest developments in the digital regulatory landscape in EMEA. It details the latest legislation updates and policy changes as well as their implications to end users and tech providers. This report serves as a tool for monitoring ever-changing scenarios and as an instrument with practical advice to tech providers on how to position themselves for opportunities created by new legislations.

"Technology will be at the basis of compliance with regulatory requirements, and technology providers are key actors to foster efficient and effective governance and the informational infrastructure behind the data," said Anielle Guedes, EMEA Digital Regulations and Policies lead.

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IDC Innovators are emerging vendors with revenue <$100 million that have demonstrated either a groundbreaking business model or an innovative new technology — or both. This IDC Innovators study profiles four vendors in the AI for behavioral health market: Aiberry, NeuroFlow, RethinkFirst, and Twill (formerly Happify Health). Solutions offered by these companies help improve access to behavioral and mental health resources, which are in short supply, and improve consumer engagement by providing high-touch services via a digital platform.

The behavioral health technology market is highly fragmented with thousands of point solutions, reflecting the wide range of behavioral and mental health issues, including anxiety, depressions, general stress, burnout from the pandemic, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Many companies in this space are start-ups with a mission to address the growing behavioral and mental health issues using technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP).

"Technology can address barriers to care by increasing access to online behavioral and mental health resources that helps reduce the perceived stigma associated with needing these services," states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, Public Sector. "AI technologies accelerate identifying patients most in need of care, power conversational AI chatbots that triage consumers to appropriate resources, and create personalized care plans, all of which engenders more consumer engagement and thus successful patient outcomes."

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This IDC Survey looks at the challenges that IT healthcare leaders face in 2023 as they develop IT budgeting plans that anticipate potential economic disruptions while maintaining the shift to digital business models. In February and March 2023, IDC connected with IT healthcare leaders around the world to gain early insights into how they are navigating disruptions and prioritizing technology investments.

IDC's Global Technology Thought Leadership group conducts a monthly survey — the Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey — to understand how IT and business leaders in enterprises around the world are assessing risks and addressing cost management for their growing portfolios of technology resources.

This survey of 888 respondents from North America, Asia/Pacific, and Western Europe was conducted in late February and early March 2023 while IT leaders were starting to execute on their 2023 IT investment plans. They reflect the attitudes and expectations as of that moment in time. This survey was conducted in the weeks after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and other banking difficulties and reflects the preliminary impact those events may have on economic and IT spending outlooks.

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This IDC study provides an evaluation of five vendors that provide payer solutions for product/plan configuration. The vendors we chose include front-runners in the industry that were chosen for their market share and penetration of their potential growth opportunities.

According to Jeff Rivkin, research director, Payer IT Strategies at IDC Health Insights, "Product/plan configurators are being implemented by payers that want to compete for consumers and groups aggressively with speed to market, flexible product offerings, and expansion to Medicare Advantage and ancillary products. As payers attempt to find new revenue and respond to governmental and competitive pressures, the ability to bring a creative product to market fast and effectively will be a competitive advantage. Those that can't may not survive the onslaught of value-based reimbursement, flexible networks, price competition, and consumer demand."

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This IDC PlanScape describes the important role that remote health monitoring (RHM) can play in transforming the delivery of healthcare services by enabling care anywhere initiatives. The study helps healthcare organizations build a case for deploying remote health monitoring devices and provides a road map for healthcare organizations to follow as they prioritize remote health monitoring use cases.

"Aligned financial incentives are driving the increased deployment of RHM programs by both providers and health plans," states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights. "The shift from fee-for-service healthcare to value-based healthcare, with its focus on improving outcomes and operational efficiencies, continues to drive investment in remote health technologies that span health and wellness tracking and chronic care management for a wide range of chronic conditions."

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This IDC Survey Spotlight investigates the strategic approach adopted by healthcare organizations worldwide to optimize data management and maximize the value of AI/ML initiatives.

The analysis presented in this study is based on a sample of healthcare organizations from wave 3 of IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, conducted in April 2023 across North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

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This IDC Survey Spotlight considers short- and medium-term priorities for life science supply chains and related use cases, based on responses in IDC's March 2023 Supply Chain Survey.

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This IDC Market Note provides an overview of and insights into the FDA's final guidance document entitled "Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Refuse to Accept Policy for Cyber Devices Under Section 524B of the FD&C Act," published on March 29, 2023.

"The new cybersecurity standards for medical device acceptance necessitate a paradigm shift in security management strategies for medical device manufacturers seeking to enter the U.S. market. Adopting integrated security-by-design approaches to managing security and building ecosystem-wide trust is imperative in this new era of medical devices cybersecurity." — Research Manager Nino Giguashvili, IDC Health Insights

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This IDC Market Presentation provides general and synthetic knowledge to support salespeople of technology vendors when they first approach a buyer. It equips sales professionals with basic information concerning the healthcare industry to contact buyers with confidence. It also provides a toolkit to spark discussions, helping salespeople show preparedness and stimulate interest in technology buyers with significant conversation teasers and examples.

"Mastering the intricacies of the healthcare industry can be daunting, but this handbook can help unravel its complexities. It gives you vital information and conversation starters to engage healthcare buyers successfully," said Federico Mayr, research analyst, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Perspective investigates the emerging use cases, technology approaches, and governance considerations in exploring opportunities in and tackling the risks of generative AI in the public sector.

"At the time of writing, no major government entity in EMEA has implemented generative AI at scale; nonetheless, many ideas, pilots, and prototypes are being worked on to understand the potential benefits in terms of improving citizen and employee experience, increasing operational efficiency, and increasing trust and compliance and environmental sustainability, as well as in identifying the governance and technical challenges of generative AI," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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This IDC PeerScape provides payer executives with an understanding of the challenges, examples of how other healthcare organizations have tackled the challenges and, finally, guidance for organizations to address these challenges.

"Operationalizing product data management is relatively new to some payers, but payer organizations should look to the successes of their peers to take advantage of lessons learned," says Jeff Rivkin, research director, Payer IT Strategies at IDC.

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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation explores the opportunities and challenges of generative AI for the healthcare market. It shows how these opposite forces are shaping the way healthcare providers are adopting or planning to invest in this innovative technology. It provides guidance for healthcare organizations on how to embrace generative AI responsibly while pursuing their strategic business priorities.

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This IDC Perspective provides IDC Health Insights' overview of key IT deals, news, and digital initiatives in the worldwide medical devices market in 1Q23. This is the third in the new quarterly series of reports launched by IDC Health Insights following the expansion of its in-depth research coverage of the global medical devices industry.

"Medical devices organizations worldwide continue to embrace the transformative power of digital technology to enhance their product offerings, improve business performance, and address the needs of patients and customers more comprehensively. Expanding digital capabilities and digitally enabled offerings is viewed as imperative to respond to growing market challenges and thrive in the evolving landscape of value-based healthcare." — Research Manager Nino Giguashvili, IDC Health Insights

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This IDC Perspective highlights our key takeaways and analysis of the recent Oracle Application and Industry Analyst Summit.

"Essentially, the message is that Oracle will provide customers the core system (the "digital fabric" as one executive said), common data model, and best practices, combined with partner-led agile methodologies, ISV, and integration offerings — to the tune of what now is 20k+ services and ISV partners. This shared application, cross-industry ecosystem approach is one we see most large platform providers offering today, whether in an enterprise or industrial environment — because on-demand, rapid access to data, applications, and services is expected by end customers in every industry today to effectively run their businesses," said Jeffrey Hojlo, research vice president, Future of Industry Ecosystems, IDC.

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This IDC Taxonomy provides a description of IDC's digital sovereignty market. It serves as the foundation for classifying and sizing the worldwide digital sovereignty market. For 2023, the taxonomy includes 26 individual functional markets grouped within a hierarchy of nine secondary markets, which in turn aggregate into three primary segments: data sovereignty, technical sovereignty, and operational sovereignty.

"Demand for digital sovereignty has been mainly led by organizations that need IT solutions that comply with industry regulations and data privacy laws," said Rahiel Nasir, lead analyst at IDC's Digital Sovereignty research program. "But we are now seeing demand expand beyond regulated sectors and across all industries. This is due in part to macroeconomic trends such as geopolitical uncertainties, the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, and inflationary fears. But at the heart of it is increasing cloud usage: as more organizations embrace cloud technologies as part of their digital transformation journeys, issues of sovereignty, security and trust have moved higher up the technology agenda."

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This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the current makeup of the payer IT payment integrity landscape. It illustrates the vendor landscape and depicts the segments and structure of the market.

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This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how medical device manufacturers worldwide are leveraging cloud applications across their supply chains and realizing benefits from these deployments.

The analysis presented in this study is based on a sample of medical device manufacturers from IDC's 2023 Global Supply Chain Survey, conducted in March across North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.

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IDC predicts that "Sovereign assertions in sustainability, resiliency, and asset residency through 2025 will force G2000 CIOs to shift staff, budgets, and operating processes for more than 35% of IT and data assets."

Triggered by European Union policies and regulations (e.g., the European Union's European Strategy for Data, the Data Governance Act, the Chips Act, the Digital Decade program, and multilateral initiatives such as Gaia-X), digital sovereignty has become a key priority for policymakers across the globe.

Public and private sector IT executives started to educate themselves and their teams about digital sovereignty when the pandemic hit, which made it a tier 2 priority compared with recovery and resilience. But as geopolitical uncertainties increased political pressure and triggered regulatory actions that foster digital sovereignty, CIOs and CTOs started to embed digital sovereign requirements in requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs). They now need to make strategic sourcing decisions to select the sovereign solutions that enable them to enhance security and resilience; reduce compliance, portability, and interoperability risks; and ensure trusted data sharing across jurisdictions and with partners.

This IDC PlanScape provides public and private sector IT executives with a framework to make strategic choices regarding the type of sovereign solutions they should select. This IDC PlanScape elaborates on the stakeholders involved, investments to be made, as well as benefits and risks of different types of sovereign solutions.

"IT executives who want to make strategic sourcing decisions that not only comply with digital sovereignty regulation, but also deliver the best business outcomes in terms of agility, resilience, and innovation must understand the regulatory landscape on digital sovereignty, identify the candidate workloads to migrate to sovereign solutions, and scan the market to be educated regarding the many sovereign solutions that global and local tech providers are bringing to market," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC EMEA.

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This IDC PlanScape provides policymakers with a framework to make strategic choices about what degree of sovereignty they want to mandate through laws, policies, and standards. It identifies the stakeholders that must be involved, investments to be made, and the risks that different degrees of sovereignty imply, such as overzealous isolation from global technology companies that may hamper innovation.

"Ministers, secretaries, and commissioners in charge of national digital sovereignty strategies must consider interdependencies between all attributes of digital sovereignty from data to technical, from operational to assurance, and from supply chain to geopolitics, to ensure that their regulations are effective. They need to collaborate with the industry to understand the impact of digital sovereignty regulatory interventions on both IT demand and supply," said Massimiliano Claps, IDC EMEA research director.

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This IDC Market Presentation contains our Industry Marketing Handbook, designed to support technology vendors marketers in building their marketing narrative for the healthcare sector. It can be used to tailor messaging to government-specific challenges and to build pertinent stories and campaigns that resonate with prospects and customers. 

"Digital adoption has become an organizational priority in the post-COVID-19 world. Healthcare provider (HCP) organizations, to accelerate their patient-centric care approaches, have increased their focus on widening care access, strengthening digital and physical infrastructure, improving clinical data management, and becoming data driven. While these organizations prioritize tech investments in key use cases, it is essential that marketing leaders of tech vendor organizations align their solutions and narratives by analyzing HCPs' business priorities and investment barriers, for a strong and convincing partnership," said Manoj Vallikkat, senior research manager, IDC Health Insights.

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This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes how medical device producers, worldwide, are leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) across their supply chains and realizing benefits from IoT deployments.

The analysis presented in this study is based on a sample of medical device manufacturers from IDC’s Global Supply Chain Survey, 2023, conducted in March across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

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This IDC PlanScape describes the important role 5G can play in transforming the delivery of healthcare services by enabling care anywhere initiatives. It helps provider organizational IT leaders justify and plan for deploying 5G and provides a road map for healthcare organizations to follow as they prioritize 5G use cases. The study also provides a decision tree for healthcare leaders to use to prioritize their 5G use case selection.

"Healthcare organizations are making the requisite investments in 5G because they recognize the positive impact that 5G will have on the healthcare industry in the next five years," states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights. "Key to successfully realizing the intended benefits of 5G is pairing the optimal connectivity with the 'right use case.'"

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This IDC Survey discusses how European governments are implementing digital sovereign solutions and what benefits they expect to realize from digital sovereignty. IDC survey data shows that European governments are willing to pay a premium price for sovereign solutions in exchange for value, particularly in terms of operational controls and assurance.

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"The proliferation of data formats and the siloing of data imaging is progressively shaping the need to plan and execute EMI strategies in the healthcare market. A scalable, flexible solution that addresses data consolidation and specialized workflow automation will aid healthcare organizations in achieving efficiency optimization without compromising quality of care," said Adriana Allocato, research manager, IDC Health Insights Europe.

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This IDC Perspective introduces the idea that governments must manage an exponential amount of data that are vital to their daily activities in fostering citizen-centric services. While sensitive data (particularly top-secret or military intelligence) are generally well identified with a clear management processes, there are datasets that are critical to operations that are not classified. Building a framework to categorize such datasets and to distinguish them from value-adding data is vital for public services organizations and in taking the right actions.

"Governments' concerns go beyond cybersecurity issues. Recent events, pandemics, conflicts, and climate change showed us that if they can foster public services modernization, they also highlighted that resilience is no longer just a buzzword," said Remi Letemple, senior research analyst, IDC Government Insights Europe. "Those actions must be taken before a crisis rather than just in response," said Louisa Barker, research manager, IDC Government Insights Europe.

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This IDC Market Glance provides a glimpse into the current makeup of the behavioral health landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.

"Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, or 52.9 million adults in 2020, and less than half (46.2%) received mental health services in the past year," states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights. "These alarming statistics point to a need for technology that addresses the many barriers to receiving adequate care including an acute shortage of behavioral and mental health professionals."

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This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current makeup of the connected health landscape, illustrates who some of the major players are, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.

"The continued shift to digital-first healthcare and hybrid work underscores the need for connected health technologies, states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Health Insights. "Initiatives such as care anywhere and hospital at home are drivers for investing in connected remote health monitoring devices and services."

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This IDC Market Glance provides a look at the current makeup of the remote health monitoring landscape, illustrates the participating vendors, and depicts the segments and structure of the market.

"The demand for remote patient monitoring devices and services will continue to grow," states Lynne A. Dunbrack, group vice president, IDC Public Sector. "Deferred care during the COVID-19 pandemic delayed diagnosing and treating patients with chronic conditions who are just now returning to see their healthcare providers."

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This IDC Survey Spotlight analyzes data covering the European life sciences industry collected from the IDC EMEA European Industry Acceleration Survey conducted in April 2021. The study aims to explore the strategic investment trends that life sciences companies make to enable operating models for expanding digital ecosystems in the European landscape.

"European life sciences companies are accelerating investments in digital technologies to address the growing complexity and scale of collaboration networks and enable secure operating models for digital ecosystems. Life science organizations' ability to generate value will increasingly rely on their participation in agile ecosystems that enable secure sharing of data, insights, and capabilities at scale to drive co-innovation, create new business value, and foster long-term resilience." — Research Manager Nino Giguashvili, IDC Health Insights Europe

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This IDC Perspective analyzes the evolution of the European data spaces vision and elaborates on the potential roles of governments as regulators, contributors, and enablers of such a vision.

"Senior government leaders should not wait for EU-wide regulations and programs that are defining the European data spaces road map. They need to take a proactive approach to realize the benefits of data sharing by shaping the trajectory of the European data spaces vision by regulating, enabling, and contributing to data spaces," said Massimiliano Claps, research director, IDC Government Insights.

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This IDC Survey Spotlight investigates how automation technologies are shaping the medical device industry and its processes. It provides insights about the choice to invest in automation technology and processes and their impact on the business strategic priorities of medical device manufactures. The analysis is based on the medical devices sample of wave 8 of IDC's Worldwide Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey in September 2022.

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This IDC Market Presentation examines IDC's Worldwide Life Sciences Personas Handbook, designed to provide technology vendors a better understanding of their buyer personas. It aims to answer the following questions:

Who are the key personas I need to address with my:

• Offering (products and services)
• Marketing messages
• Sales campaign
• Sales activity

What are their strategic priorities and their day-to-day activities?

What are their major pains and challenges?

What are their KPIs?

This IDC Presentation focuses on the C-suite level and provides an overview of key executives in life sciences organizations. The strategic priorities, pain points, and KPIs described for each persona are intended to support the early stages of the sales funnel, such as in the stages of awareness creation, interest, and consideration. It will not focus on how to approach procurement departments once decisions for purchase have been made.

"Identifying the right target personas and understanding their role-specific priorities, pain points, and KPIs in the face of the increasingly complex life sciences stakeholder ecosystem is essential for tech vendors to design and execute effective sales and marketing strategies and maximize the value of interactions with key decision makers and influencers," said Nino Giguashvili, research manager, IDC Health Insights.