Healthcare industry is a labour intensive industry and requires strategic human resource management which involves managerial activities and tasks related to developing and maintaining a qualified workforce. Moreover, the increasing burden of diseases in the Europe and Middle East & Africa have increased the investments and expenditures for healthcare services, resulting in the expansion of the healthcare market into a billion dollar industry. Such prevailing conditions facilitated the development of Europe and Middle East & Africa healthcare HR software market. According to the World Bank, the global healthcare expenditure in 2014 was USD 7.82 trillion, which is expected to reach ~USD 9.2 trillion by 2018..The estimated share for Germany in the global healthcare expenditure was about 11.3% share in 2016. Moreover, HR software is only software that provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which is useful in total employee life-cycle management capabilities, this drives the market growth. Additionally, increasing popularity and awareness regarding the benefits of HR software has led to the ameliorating HR software market during the forecasted period. However, lack of related technology and healthcare infrastructure in the developing countries, rapid increase in cybercrime hampering the data security, and complexity of software usage with unceasing size of the organisations is expected to restrain the market growth during the forecasted period.
Segmentation
The European and Middle East & Africa for healthcare HR software market is segmented on the basis of type, organisation size, and end users.
On the basis of types, the market is segmented into Recruiting, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Core-HR, Workforce Management and others. The recruiting segment, by type, is sub-segmented into applicant tracking, screening and background check, and others. Similarly, the workforce management segment is sub- segmented into online time keeping, time clock, and others.
On the basis of organisation size, the market is segmented into medium businesses, large enterprises, small business, and others.
On the basis of end users, the market is segmented into pharmaceutical industries, hospital and clinics, laboratories, and others.
Key players for market
Paychex Inc. (U.S.), Paycom. (United States), SumTotal Systems, LLC. (U.S.), SAP SE (Germany), Ceridian HCM, Inc. (U.S.), PeopleAdmin, Inc. (U.S), CoreHR (Europe), Kenexa Corporation (U.S.), Oracle (U.S.), SAP SuccessFactors. (U.S.), Ultimate Software (U.S.) and others.