Healthcare organizations have large amounts of data but often do not have the tools to bring the data together for useful business information and planning. Healthcare analytics is the systematic use of data and related business insights developed through applied analytical disciplines such as, statistical, contextual, quantitative, predictive, cognitive, other including emerging model to drive fact-based decision making for planning, management, measurement and learning. Analytics may be descriptive, predictive or prescriptive.

Healthcare analytics involves application of statistical tools and techniques to healthcare-related data in order to study past situations such as operational performance or clinical outcomes to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical and business processes and performance.

The healthcare analytics market is showing a double-digit growth due to supportive elements such as digitization of world commerce, the emergence of big data and the advance of analytical technologies. Healthcare organizations can differentiate themselves through data analytics. Factors such as, federal healthcare mandates, wide scope of predictive analytics and improvements in the financial and operative function are driving the installation of healthcare data analysis in hospitals. While, the major concerns of this market are the security of data, privacy of individual patients and lack of manpower with cross-functional analytical skills. The healthcare analytics market is estimated to be $3.7 billion in 2012 and is growing at a rate of 23.7% from 2012 to 2017 to reach $ 10.8 billion.

Healthcare payers as well as the providers are leading the users of health care analytics for a range of functions from suggesting the most accurate diagnoses, cost reduction, fraud prevention, revenue generation, service improvement to real-time view of the business. The major driver for business analytics is the return on Investments (ROI), with a median of five years, from 10.0% to 1,000.0%.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) offers incentives for hospitals and physicians who adopt technology and document related to patient safety, coordination, and quality of care. Data analytics tools are becoming an attractive purchase for decision makers, even in an economic climate forcing hospital budget cuts, layoffs and closures.

Healthcare Analytics provides several benefits across payers and providers, which are expected to increase, as the healthcare data analytics market is still in the nascent stages. In addition, as the analytics penetrates the Asian market there would be niche benefits, which would be discovered, based on the needs.

The healthcare analytics market is a well-established market in the U.S. It is showcasing double-digit growth compared to other healthcare IT market. The European market is the second largest market, growing at a lower rate due to the economic crisis. The Asian market is relatively new to the healthcare data analytics, however, the increasing initiatives and outsourcing will drive the market. Australia and New Zealand are developed market in terms of healthcare IT, and are setting an example for the use of healthcare data analytics.

The major players in the market are Verisk (U.S.), Medai (U.S.), MedeAnalytics (U.S.), Vitalsprings (U.S.),Optum Health (U.S.), Truven Health (U.S.), McKesson (U.S.), Cerner (U.S.) and other larger players such as IBM (U.S.), Oracle (U.S.).

Scope of the Report

This research report covers the global market by applications, delivery mode, components, and end users.

Healthcare analytics market, by application

Clinical
Financial
Predictive Modeling
Operational and Administrative
Research

Market, by delivery modes

On-premise
Web-hosted
Cloud-based

Market, by components

Hardware
Software
Services

Market, by end-users

Healthcare
Payers
Providers
Others

Market, by geography

U.S.
Europe
Asia
Rest of the World (Australia, New Zealand, LATAM region, Middle East, Africa and Russia, Australia, and New Zealand)

Report Summary

Healthcare Analytics is the systematic use of data and related business insights developed through applied analytical disciplines such as, statistical, contextual, quantitative, predictive, cognitive, other including emerging model to drive fact-based decision making for planning, management, measurement and learning. Based on applications, the market is segmented into clinical, financial, predictive, operational, and others. The financial market has the highest share as the financial operations are needed at both the payer as well as the provider front.

Increasing demand for better clinical outcomes, treating the disease at the earliest stage, increasing the efficiency of the healthcare process, etc. are the major drivers that are slated to propel this market. The biggest driver for the healthcare analytics market is the Federal healthcare mandates, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) offering incentives for hospitals and physicians who adopt technology and document meaningful use.

Healthcare Analytics provides several benefits across payers and providers, which are expected to increase, as the healthcare analytics market is still in the nascent stages. In addition, as the analytics penetrates the Asian market there would be niche benefits, which would be discovered, based on the needs.

Benefits of Healthcare Analytics

There is an on-going demand for greater information exchange either within a healthcare organization or among various care settings and providers for better patient care. Data exchange enables use of integrated data in variety of ways by healthcare payers as well as the providers that helps them in optimizing their workflow. However, the quality improvement and cost efficiencies are not possible without using analytics and integrating those functions into workflow. The successful HIE includes collecting data, making it available in a meaningful way and providing tools for analysis. Thus, HIE along with data analytics results into much actionable and measurable outcomes.

In the healthcare industry, data implies summation of the information related to patients’ healthcare such as patient medical records, social media posts, web pages, emergency correspondence, news feeds, articles in medical journals, and others. Although this data has the potential to improve, care, and save lives, this opportunity is lost without proper organization and clear understanding of patterns and trends. Data analytics solutions take advantage of this data to create easy and actionable outcomes.

The healthcare analytics market is a fragmented market with a few well-established firms and several small firms. The major player in this market are Verisk, Medai, MedeAnalytics, Optum Health, Truven Health, McKesson, Cerner and other larger players such as IBM, Oracle. The bigger player especially IBM has increased focused on the analytics and healthcare is a major segment.