The outpatient healthcare sector is changing rapidly. While the total number of medical practices is declining, leading software providers are growing by up to 90% annually.

An important driver of this development is mergers and acquisitions. With every practice sale, the likelihood of a change in practice software increases – and with it the opportunity for flexible, specialised providers to gain market share. Specialised solutions for radiology and ophthalmology are growing particularly strongly, despite high integration hurdles.

For our analysis, we compared the installation statistics of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) from 2016 with the latest data from Q4 2022. The analysis is based on publicly available billing data from the associations of statutory health insurance physicians – i.e. the very systems used for billing statutory health insurance. The figures were sorted by annual growth rates to highlight the most dynamic changes.

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The result shows that the market is on the move and specialisation pays off. What developments do you see?

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