US Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
Published October 30th, 2009
The US Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) market, valued at $1 billion in 2008, is forecast to grow by 13% annually for the next seven years to reach $2.5 billion in 2015. Growth in the market is being driven primarily by increasing adoption by small (less than 100 beds) and medium sized hospitals (100-300 beds) and by the replacement of legacy PACS by large hospitals. The need to cut costs and to increase efficiency is increasing uptake among the small and medium sized hospitals. Single desktop solutions, advanced clinical applications and integrated seamless Radiology Information Systems (RIS)/PACS functionality is leading to increased number of large hospitals looking for replacing their old PACS.
