United States Practice Management System Market - Forecasts from 2021 to 2026

The United States practice management system market is projected to witness a CAGR of 9.31% during the forecast period to reach a market size of US$4,877.334 million by 2026, increasing from US$2,615.551 million in 2019. The United States has an advanced healthcare system, and the healthcare industry has been rapidly adopting IT for better operations, which is expected to propel the growth of the practice management system market during the forecast period. Furthermore, there are a large number of independent physicians in the country and to cope with the administrative and other challenges related to independent practicing, the adoption of practice management systems has been increasing which is further projected to boost the market growth in the coming years. Moreover, the U.S. government has been promoting the integration of IT into the healthcare industry and has been providing various incentives for companies to increase the use of IT in the industry, which is one of the prominent reasons anticipated to supplement the market growth during the assessment period.

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease had a positive impact on the United States practice management system market. A large number of people (nearly 45 million as of October 2021) got infected with COVID-19 in the United States which put up a lot of operational pressure on the hospitals and the overall healthcare industry. This led to a rise in the adoption of practice management systems to catch up with the sudden surge in the need for better operational functioning. Furthermore, as doctor appointments and other healthcare services turned online, the surge in demand for online healthcare services further led to increased adoption of practice management systems in the United States which further upsurged the market growth.

Growing need among independent physicians

Several challenges have been faced by physicians in the United States while practicing independently. One of them is the high level of administrative burden since they don't have large management teams as in a hospital. Also, the small management teams are generally underpaid when compared to large hospitals and hence it becomes arduous for the physicians to recruit talented individuals. Furthermore, challenges like lack of managerial metrics and dashboards, lack of understanding and management related to revenue cycle management, reimbursement challenges, payor relations, implementation of information technology, competition from hospitals, restrictions to referral sources, new service lines, increasing compliance, among others are faced by the physicians in the United States. To curb these challenges, the popularity of practice management systems among physicians in the United States has been increasing constantly over the years and is anticipated to propel the growth of the United States practice management systems market during the forecast period. Moreover, the focus of practice management several years ago used to be basic administrative operations, while the administrative burden has turned exponentially more complex for the physicians in the United States with Electronics Health Record (EHR), Medicare Access, and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS), among others. This has further upsurged the need for practice management systems in the United States and is projected to surge the market growth during the assessment period.

Segmentation:

By Product

• Integrated Practice Management System
• Standalone Practice Management System

By Component

• Software
• Services

By Mode of Delivery

• On-premise
• Web-based
• Cloud-based

By End-User

• Physicians
• Pharmacists
• Diagnostic Laboratories
• Others