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Currently, the Indian Healthcare IT industry is in a state of growth, as the market has been undervalued and underdeveloped all these years. With a lot of initiatives taken to bring more standardization in the market place, and, also with the rapid expansion of the healthcare facilities all over the country, there is a tremendous opportunity for Healthcare IT organizations with focus and dedication to grow. Although the Government of India approved the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Healthcare IT standards for India in August 2013, presently, the Healthcare IT market does not adhere to any standards, as they are not yet mandated for adoption by the Government of India. Hence, there are many local players offering all kinds of technologies and products in the market.

Even though, there are no set specifications for the functionalities required in Hospital Information and Management Software products, it is broadly understood to be consisting of different modules dealing with various functionalities in a hospital. The product usage is predominantly by the Administrative, Operations and Finance staff in a hospital, with minimum usage by the Clinical Staff and hence, the IT enablement does not have a major role to play in clinical informatics area which can have an impact on the quality of patient care delivered in a Hospital. Many of the current systems are not amenable to creating an end-to-end, well integrated, Enterprise wide solution. The Dominant technology in the market place is mostly on Windows OS, browser based, web based for the newer generation of systems; with older systems on client-server technology. However, there is a growing interest in moving in for Open source OS based HIMS on cloud technology platform. During the next 5-10 years, the market will move to more standards based products, available on Mobile devices, and fully integrated solutions on cloud technology platform.