The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health. The modern healthcare industry is divided into many sectors and depends on interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet health needs of individuals and populations.

The healthcare industry is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries. Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country’s economy.

⇒  Hardware: computers, servers, storage, mobile devices, printers, network equipment, etc.

⇒  Software: applications for productivity, business, networks, systems, security, mobile apps.

⇒  Services: deployment, integration, custom development, break / fix, managed services.

⇒  Infrastructure: Internet backbone, telecommunications networks, cloud data centers.

⇒  Information: data, documents, voice, video, images, social streams.

⇒  Digital Business: commerce, communication, collaboration. automation governance