Cloud Computing to Drive the RIS Market to USD 960.8 Million by 2025

The global radiology information system (RIS) market was valued at USD 548.4 million in 2017 and is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 7.3 percent during 2017–2025, projects Coherent Market Insights. Recent advances in healthcare imaging and adoption of advanced technology in healthcare market have increased the use of IT and serves as the principal driver for adoption of cloud computing. Moreover, healthcare regulations and reforms generate the need to create the stringent requirements for the security, confidentiality, privacy, traceability of access, and long-term storage of data. Cloud services comply all these legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements and can offer sophisticated security controls, including data encryption, better access controls, and access logging.

Healthcare functionality is enhanced with cloud-based healthcare IT systems, which offer broader integration, allowing easy and secure share of electronic health record (EHR) among the healthcare professionals, which in turn is fueling growth of the market. These cloud-based systems offer various benefits over the web-based or on premise RIS, such as cloud-based technology operates at low cost for uploading images over the cloud and allows secure access to images whenever required. The cloud-based RIS helps to convert the radiology to a virtual solution, where the radiologist can effectively analyze and send the report over the cloud, without the need to physically move from one location.