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New from Black Book Research Insights: Mexico Acute Care EHR and Digital Health 2026 — an independent qualitative market report designed to help Mexico’s acute-care leaders define defensible EHR strategy and procurement requirements in a system shaped by IMSS-scale national direction, multi-institution governance fragmentation, NOM-024 interoperability obligations, and rapidly maturing Mexico-resident cloud hosting capacity.

Why this report, why now

Mexico’s 2026 acute-care EHR and digital health environment is shaped by four intersecting forces:

A public-sector push to use the IMSS electronic clinical record (ECE) as the backbone for a more universal, cross-institution record (explicitly positioned as in-house development, not a licensed private-vendor platform).
Citizen digital access expands, raising the bar for scheduling, results access, and secure communications
Public-sector modernization continues—unevenly, creating a market for staged modernization, managed services, and integration-first strategies
Persistent fragmentation of governance and funding across IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, state health services, and a large private-hospital market.
A standards regime anchored in NOM-024 and DGIS exchange guides (GIIS)—clearer than many regional peers, but unevenly enforced in practice.
A rapidly improving hosting and data-residency landscape driven by multiple hyperscale cloud regions in Querétaro, materially changing the feasibility of Mexico-based hosting for regulated workloads.

Market reality is also increasingly clear: Mexico’s near-term modernization is rarely a uniform “rip-and-replace” of inpatient EHR cores. The fastest procurement movement is in the contestable layers—interoperability/integration enablement, digital front door consolidation, private-sector revenue-cycle modernization, enterprise imaging, analytics/data platforms, cyber resilience, and targeted workflow automation—because these can deliver measurable outcomes without multi-year clinical disruption.

Register now to download the Mexico Acute Care EHR and Digital Health Report - an independent qualitative report guiding Mexico’s acute-care leaders on defensible EHR strategy and procurement amid IMSS-scale direction, fragmented governance, NOM-024 interoperability mandates, and growing Mexico-based cloud hosting.

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Mexico Acute Care EHR And Digital Health 2026

What you’ll get

A procurement-aligned map of Mexico’s acute-care digital health decision environment, including:

Seven trends shaping acute-care EHR decisions to 2030 in Mexico, translated into actionable procurement implications (interoperability direction, NOM-024/GIIS minimums, cloud/managed acceleration, private-group consolidation, AI adoption patterns, tightening security/privacy governance, and implementation capacity constraints).
Mexico acute-care organisation segments (A–E) with distinctive demand signals and feasible transformation scope.
A Mexico-adapted 18-dimension Strategic Fit Framework, consolidated into four domains, to move requirements definition beyond feature checklists.
A practical guide to Mexico’s national foundations that change “baseline requirements” (IMSS ECE as a national anchor, NOM-024, DGIS GIIS scenarios, identity and citizen access modernization including Llave MX, and Mexico-resident cloud feasibility).
Vendor landscape patterns and where procurement movement is most likely in 2026 (integration/interoperability platforms, portals and access layers, imaging backbones, analytics platforms, cybersecurity and resilience programs, and managed service models).
Buyer-ready emphasis on testable conformance, auditable access controls, and downtime operating model maturity (ED/OR/pharmacy continuity), now treated as procurement gates.
A buyer-ready procurement requirements checklist and due diligence questions to prevent common project failure points

Strategic Fit Framework: 18 dimensions across four domains

This report applies an 18-dimension Strategic Fit Framework grouped into four domains:

Clinical and Operational Effectiveness
Interoperability, Data and Innovation
Resilience, Scalability and Governance
Partnership, Value and Strategic Alignment

Use it as a checklist to structure requirements and weight trade-offs in Mexico’s context—where priorities commonly elevate around NOM-024/GIIS exchange readiness, identity alignment and auditability, Mexico-resident hosting controls, rural connectivity constraints, private-market revenue-cycle depth, and governance for AI tools that may trigger COFEPRIS SaMD considerations.

Segment-specific results across Mexico’s acute-care environments

The report examines decision drivers and feasible modernization scope across:

Segment A: Federal social security (IMSS) — high-volume, standardized delivery; interoperability/portability and reliability dominate.
Segment B: ISSSTE provider network — modernization and citizen services; pragmatic stability and reporting requirements.
Segment C: IMSS-Bienestar and state health services — variable maturity; rapid deployment/low-cost operations; connectivity constraints in rural regions.
Segment D: Private hospital networks and specialty groups — enterprise standardization, patient experience, and revenue-cycle integration pressure.
Segment E: High-complexity academic and national reference centers — advanced clinical content, analytics/research enablement, and higher governance/cyber expectations.

A “no single winner” view—focused on the layers that actually move

Instead of treating Mexico as one buyer market (or publishing generic vendor rankings), the report shows how modernization typically advances through layer-by-layer enablement:

Start with your segment and modernization intent—not vendor mindshare. Clarify whether your objective is IMSS/ISSSTE alignment, IMSS-Bienestar/state deployment feasibility, private-network consolidation, or high-complexity analytics/research enablement.
Treat NOM-024 + DGIS GIIS as minimum, testable procurement gates. Require conformance artifacts, scenario demonstrations, and measurable acceptance criteria—not generic “interoperable” claims.
Digital front door consolidation (identity, scheduling, notifications, audit-ready access)
Enterprise imaging refresh and imaging IT as the AI delivery layer
Analytics/data platforms across mixed clinical estates
Cybersecurity, resilience, privileged access controls, and rehearsed downtime/recovery
Managed services and operate-and-improve models where workforce constraints are binding

The report also highlights publicly visible positioning signals and “entry wedges” that matter in Mexico (e.g., IMSS’s internally developed ECE platform as a national anchor, private-network enterprise platforms such as Philips Tasy, LATAM execution patterns such as Dedalus, medication decision support patterns such as Micromedex, and the procurement screening role of SIRES certification under NOM-024).

Clear executive moves for the next 90 days (Mexico)

Start with your segment and modernization intent—not vendor mindshare. Clarify whether your objective is IMSS/ISSSTE alignment, IMSS-Bienestar/state deployment feasibility, private-network consolidation, or high-complexity analytics/research enablement.
Treat NOM-024 + DGIS GIIS as minimum, testable procurement gates. Require conformance artifacts, scenario demonstrations, and measurable acceptance criteria—not generic “interoperable” claims.
Make identity, auditability, and privileged access control first-order requirements. Mexico’s identity modernization and expanding access patterns turn these into enterprise risk controls, not “IT add-ons.”
Use Mexico-resident cloud capacity strategically—but contract for sovereignty controls. Define data residency, cross-border access constraints, logging, incident cooperation, and audited subcontractor chains.
Plan modernization via contestable layers when core replacement is not feasible. Interoperability platforms, portals, imaging, analytics, cyber resilience, and managed services often deliver the fastest measurable outcomes with lower disruption.

The report also highlights publicly visible positioning signals and “entry wedges” that matter in Mexico (e.g., IMSS’s internally developed ECE platform as a national anchor, private-network enterprise platforms such as Philips Tasy, LATAM execution patterns such as Dedalus, medication decision support patterns such as Micromedex, and the procurement screening role of SIRES certification under NOM-024).