Rural hospitals lag on health technology adoption: Frost and Sullivan

[1] According to Frost and Sullivan analyst, Natasha Gulati, Australia is the second largest market for health technology adoption within the Asia Pacific region.

[2] Large, public hospitals are the highest and most frequent spenders on healthcare HIT solutions, but smaller remote hospitals hardly spend anything on health IT.

[3] Natasha added that fragmentation in the hospitals infrastructure are the main obstacles that hinders a really robust development of health IT across Australia.

1

[Source] Australian Information Technology News – Rural hospitals lag on health technology adoption: Frost and Sullivan