New market research from DataM Intelligence projects the global smart hospitals market will grow from roughly $58.2 billion in 2024 to $363.9 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 26.2 percent. The firm attributes that trajectory to health systems moving beyond electronic records toward connected, AI-enabled care environments that integrate clinical documentation, patient monitoring, virtual nursing, and operational workflows under a single infrastructure framework.
HotSpot Take
A new market analysis from DataM Intelligence projects the global smart hospitals market will reach $363.9 billion by 2032, advancing at a 26.2% CAGR from a $58.2 billion base in 2024. The report identifies AI-enabled clinical workflows, connected patient rooms, and remote monitoring as the primary growth drivers. North America holds the largest regional share at 43.5% of the 2024 market value, according to the report. Recent enterprise deployments by Artisight, Oracle Health, Philips, and eVideon illustrate what DataM Intelligence describes as the market’s shift from isolated digital projects to integrated hospital operating environments.
The Shift From Digitization to Intelligence
Smart hospital platforms integrate ambient sensing, AI-driven documentation, and connected room systems to support clinical decision-making and reduce manual workload on care teams.
For most of the past decade, hospital technology investment has concentrated on digitizing records. The smart hospital market is now organized around a different objective: using connected systems to make care delivery more continuous, more coordinated, and less dependent on manual intervention at every step.
According to DataM Intelligence, the market is being propelled by health system investment in AI-enabled documentation, ambient intelligence, virtual nursing, connected patient rooms, remote monitoring, and workflow orchestration. The report argues that these are not isolated capabilities and that the strongest demand is forming where software, sensors, video, monitoring, and workflow data can be combined into measurable operational gains, a condition the firm says favors platform vendors over point solutions.
The staffing pressures driving this investment are not projected to ease. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has projected significant healthcare workforce shortfalls through the early 2030s, a structural condition that makes automation and ambient monitoring financially justifiable for health systems evaluating smart hospital platforms.
Software and AI Lead the Segment Analysis
Among the components DataM Intelligence examines, software is identified as the most commercially important, occupying the center of orchestration, analytics, and clinical workflow automation. The report states that smart hospitals increasingly depend on software layers that connect EHRs, room systems, monitoring feeds, documentation tools, and predictive insights into usable operational actions.
AI is described in the report as the most strategically important technology segment, while IoT is characterized as the enabling layer that makes room-level intelligence possible. DataM Intelligence notes that AI is increasingly used for clinical documentation, predictive care, and alarm reduction, while IoT and ambient sensors support awareness of patient activity, workflow status, and room context. The combination of AI and connected sensing is characterized in the analysis as the commercial core of smart hospital deployments going forward.
This framing reflects a pattern HealthTech HotSpot has tracked across recent product announcements. Artisight’s AI-powered ambient intelligence platform and Philips‘ care intelligence approach, both highlighted in the DataM Intelligence report, represent different entry points to the same destination: hospital environments that are continuously aware of what is happening across care settings without requiring constant manual input.
North America Leads; Asia-Pacific Grows Fastest
North America holds the largest regional share of the market, representing 43.5% of 2024 market value, according to DataM Intelligence. The United States is identified in the report as the strongest demand center, driven by mature EHR adoption, acute staffing pressures, and an established supplier ecosystem across connected rooms, AI workflows, and remote monitoring.
The report points to three U.S. deployments as directional indicators of market scale. DataM Intelligence reports that Artisight’s April 2026 enterprise agreement with UChicago Medicine covers more than 1,800 devices across multiple care settings, including patient rooms, post-anesthesia care units, and operating rooms, as well as a 575,000-square-foot cancer center scheduled to open in April 2027. The report also cites eVideon‘s expansion of its Vibe Health smart room platform at OhioHealth and Oracle Health‘s February 2026 contract with Hillsboro Health covering its Foundation EHR, Clinical AI Agent, and Seamless Exchange interoperability tools.
Europe is the second-largest region, valued at approximately $16.7 billion in 2024, according to the report, which projects a 24.9% CAGR through 2032. DataM Intelligence cites aging populations, digital health policy, interoperability initiatives, and hospital modernization programs in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain as the primary regional growth drivers.
The analysis describes Asia-Pacific as the fastest-growing region. Japan is identified as strategically important based on what DataM Intelligence characterizes as the Japanese government’s explicit policy focus on using health, medical, and nursing information to improve operational efficiency. The report links this to a Fujitsu Japan and Teikyo University Hospital proof of concept launched in March 2026 to develop predictive patient management tools using EHR data. China, India, South Korea, and Singapore are also cited in the analysis as active markets.
From Pilots to Infrastructure
The most significant pattern DataM Intelligence identifies is a transition in how health systems are approaching smart hospital investment. The category is described as shifting from isolated digital projects to integrated hospital operating environments, a characterization that aligns with what HealthTech HotSpot has reported from recent virtual care coverage, where vendors including care.ai, Artisight, and Andor Health demonstrated platforms designed to coordinate care across physical and virtual settings rather than solve a single monitoring problem.
The report notes that competition in the market is intensifying around integration rather than individual products. According to the DataM Intelligence analysis, the companies best positioned will be those that can connect clinical systems, patient-room technology, monitoring, AI, and staff workflows into one operating model that reduces friction on the floor. Vendors cited in the report’s company profiles include Artisight, Oneview Healthcare, eVideon (now part of TigerConnect), and Diligent Robotics. The report states, citing Diligent Robotics, that the company’s Moxi hospital robot is deployed in more than 25 facilities with nearly 100 units completing more than 1.25 million deliveries.
For clinicians and patients, this technology trajectory has a practical implication. The goal of smart hospital infrastructure is not to add more screens or alerts to an already overloaded care environment. The goal is to reduce routine tasks that pull nurses and physicians away from direct patient interaction, whether through ambient documentation, automated logistics, or continuous remote visibility into patient status. Whether the market achieves that goal at the scale DataM Intelligence projects will depend on implementation quality, workflow integration, and clinical adoption, factors that market size forecasts do not capture.
The full DataM Intelligence smart hospitals market report is available at DataM Intelligence.
— This original article was created with AI support.
