Precedence Research has put the global healthcare enterprise resource planning market at USD 7.09 billion in 2025 and projected it to reach USD 13.38 billion by 2035, the firm said in a press release. That path works out at a growth rate of 6.56 per cent a year between 2026 and 2035. Precedence Research sells market research, and the release is a promotional one, so the figure reads best as a vendor projection rather than a hard measure of what hospitals spend on software.
What the projection counts as growth
Healthcare ERP is the software that hospitals and clinics use to run billing, supply chains and patient records on one system, Precedence Research reported. The firm said the growth would come from demand for digital tools, from automating office work, and from adding artificial intelligence to how data is sorted and read. It also named the need to move data between hospital departments, the release said, along with more chronic illness and the extra admissions that brings. Each of those is a supply-side gain rather than a count of patients. None of them measures demand for medical tourism, and the release did not say it did.
The segments the firm ranks
Precedence Research ranked the market in several ways. The finance and billing segment held the largest share in 2025, which the firm tied to handling patient payments, insurance claims and financial rules. Inventory came next, driven by the volume of medical supplies a hospital has to track, and within hospitals the firm expects material management to grow fastest. On-premises systems led in 2025, the release said, because hospitals wanted their own control of patient data and a closer fit with local rules. Cloud systems should grow faster over the period on lower upfront cost and easier access. Hospitals were the biggest buyers in 2025.
Where the firm expects the money
North America led the market in 2025, which Precedence Research put down to early use of digital tools, heavy health spending, strong hospital infrastructure and government efforts to go paperless. Asia Pacific should grow fastest over the period, the firm said. The firm pointed to rising government spending, ageing populations, bigger patient numbers, more private hospitals and staff shortages that push providers toward one shared system. The release named one recent move, Zoho Corporation’s entry into the ERP market on 23 January 2026 with an AI-driven platform that carries predictive analytics and built-in banking. Zoho’s launch was cast as a sign of the wider turn toward AI-assisted systems.
A projection, not a measurement
A ten-year software forecast like this is an announcement, not a measurement, and it sits in the same file as the other headline numbers that circulate in medical tourism. Health Tourism News traced one of them, a forecast putting Singapore’s medical tourism market at USD 15.4 billion by 2035, back to its publisher and found it harder to stand up than its wide use suggested. The healthcare ERP forecast rests on the same kind of modelling. What it is worth to a hospital lies less in the headline total than in whether the software shortens a patient’s billing and scheduling. The patient-facing side of the same technology is easier to see. Health Tourism News reported that CureMeAbroad raised 600,000 US dollars in pre-seed funding to build an AI cost estimator and match patients to hospitals across borders. That is a dated deal, not a projection to 2035, and it shows where money is really moving in the software medical tourism runs on.
What operators can check
The test, for an operator, is narrow and near. It will show in whether cloud take-up across Asia Pacific turns into shorter admission and billing times at the hospitals that treat foreign patients, and in whether the finance and billing systems the firm ranks first cut the payment delays that stall cross-border care. A projection to 2035 settles none of that. A year of hospital results, and the first customer numbers for platforms like Zoho’s, will say more than the forecast does.