Signify Premium Insight: Confident Where Competent: Fourth Quarter Vendor Sentiment Analysis

As 2022 ends, medical imaging AI vendors are looking ahead to 2023, and planning to implement and execute the next stage of the strategies they carefully constructed throughout the passing year. There are some challenges that these vendors will be pleased to put behind them, with the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the steepest increases in inflation, for example, hopefully in the rear-view mirror.

However, there are still numerous hurdles impacting vendors, and the providers which they supply, alike. While increases in the rate of inflation may be slowing in many markets, the rate of inflation itself is still high. Providers may not be as impacted by Covid itself, but its fallout, the backlog of elective procedures, the fatigue and exhaustion of staff, and the budgetary considerations are as difficult to manage as ever. For AI vendors, consolidation in the market is coming and funding, especially early-stage, is becoming ever harder to come by.