Black Book’s 2027 healthcare technology outlook covers 167 markets

Black Book Research has released a 340-page outlook on healthcare technology across 167 countries, territories and distinct markets, emphasizing that digital health systems depend on local conditions as much as on technology purchases. The 2027 publication examines electronic health record adoption, implementation and opportunities through 2030.

Black Book says the central challenge is turning digital adoption into connected systems that deliver clinical, operational and financial value. Its analysis points to interoperability—including shared patient identifiers, national registries, electronic prescribing and connected records—as a key factor in whether separate technology investments can produce benefits across a health system.

The outlook is not a vendor ranking. Instead, it considers differences in infrastructure, governance, workforce, funding and implementation capacity, from established systems seeking to improve performance to markets building basic digital services. Black Book is making the publication available free to industry stakeholders after registration.

What the outlook examines

Country profiles cover hospital and primary-care digitization, national information platforms, telehealth, population health analytics, revenue-cycle systems and implementation barriers. Black Book says primary-care and community integration remain weak in some places, even where hospitals have made greater progress with digital systems.

The publication also links readiness for artificial intelligence to the quality of underlying data, workflows, governance and security. It identifies potential work beyond replacing core electronic health records, including integration, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, patient access, analytics and workflow automation. Black Book says language, hosting requirements, local partnerships and the availability of implementation workers can affect whether projects are practical and sustainable.

How the analysis was assembled

Black Book says the outlook draws on its 2026 survey of 21,555 verified hospital and health-system software users in 147 non-U.S. countries, along with country-level market observations and public information. The publication’s 167 profiles also include the United States and selected territories or distinct healthcare technology markets, so its coverage extends beyond the survey’s geographic reach.

Black Book plans to announce separate country-by-country vendor performance rankings and key performance indicator results in November 2026. The company says those results will be based on scores from clients and users and are intended to inform healthcare technology purchasing, deployment and optimization in 2027.

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