The Smart Hospitals Market, estimated at USD 59.73 Bn in 2025, is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 20.7% and reach USD 222.92 Bn by 2032.
Market expansion is fueled by growing adoption of digital healthcare solutions, rising demand for efficient data management, and continuous advancements in health IT infrastructure. Increasing integration of electronic health records (EHRs), telehealth platforms, and AI-driven analytics is enhancing patient care, operational efficiency, and decision-making. Strategic collaborations, evolving business models, and supportive regulatory frameworks are creating strong growth prospects for both emerging players and established healthcare IT providers.
Increasing growth strategies such as initiatives for the development of smart hospitals by key market players are expected to drive the market growth over the forecast period. For instance, in January 2020, KT Corporation, a South Korea-based telecommunications company, and Samsung Medical Center (SMC), a South Korea-based hospital, announced that it had jointly developed an innovative, 5G-powered medical service as an initial step to establishing a 5G smart hospital. These services include digital diagnostic pathology, access to proton therapy information, teaching surgery, artificial intelligence-enabled care for in-patients, and an autonomous robot for an operating room.
Global Smart Hospitals Market– Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the illness caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which first appeared in Wuhan (province of Hubei, China) in the last months of 2019, as "coronavirus disease 2019" or COVID-19. This virus spread quickly and had a serious negative impact on the economies, social behaviors, and healthcare of every country in the world.
COVID-19 affected the economy in three main ways: by directly affecting production and demand, by creating disruptions in distribution channels, and through its financial impact on firms and financial markets. Due to the lockdown, several countries, such as India, China, Brazil, and others, faced problems with regard to the transportation of drugs from one place to another.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals are upgrading by using different platforms, which is expected to drive growth of the market over the forecast period. For instance, in October 2020, Digital Health Venture, a venture capital firm, and KareXpert Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a platform that provides patient-centric approach technology, jointly built a new cloud-based platform with built-in electronic health records (EHR) for the hospitals in India in order to maintain paperless records. This platform can perform specialty functions to support doctors, nurses, and patients on mobile and desktop devices, including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) and Medication Administration Request (MAR), telehealth, pharmacy management, and it also acts as a COVID-19 Outbreak Management Platform, which performs symptom monitoring, quarantine monitoring, risk/exposure monitoring assessment, etc.
Global smart hospitals market: Key Developments
On January 19, 2023, Grand River Hospital, a teaching community hospital in Canada, announced a partnership with Signal 1, a health start-up that helps hospitals enhance patient care with an AI-powered clinical decision support system, to explore a clinical decision support system powered by artificial intelligence. The solution is designed to support clinician judgment by predicting changes in patient needs and conditions to enable early interventions.
In December 2022, Zebra Technologies, a healthcare technology company, announced that the company was voted the top software vendor across 24 categories in the Retail Information Systems (RIS) 2023 Software LeaderBoard.
In March 2022, Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH), an organizational unit of National Health Services, announced a partnership with Haltian, a company developing a portfolio of smart sensors, to pilot its Empathic Building Smart Hospital solution, an innovative platform designed to improve productivity and efficiency through using data-driven insights. This partnership is able to access and monitor Building Information Management (BIM) and sensor data, with this information about to support the workforce in designing optimum space utilization.