Life Sciences

This report examines the regulations surrounding digital health in North America and Europe. It provides a general analysis of key national and regional regulatory updates that will impact digital health players and influence market dynamics. The regulatory documents considered are those governing the healthcare sector and applicable to digital hea...

The healthcare landscape is experiencing a profound shift as it shifts away from traditional fee-for-service models toward value-based care. This transition emphasizes collaboration among healthcare stakeholders, fostering a patient-centric approach. The focus is not merely on the quantity of services delivered but also on the quality of care, enco...

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), value-based care (VBC) programs reward healthcare providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they provide Medicare patients. These programs are part of its larger CMS quality strategy to reform healthcare delivery and payment. Value-based programs support 3 aims: b...

Accelerated reforms due to COVID-19 and technologically advanced sample-in-answer-out portable, web-connected, encrypted devices that provide results in a few minutes changed the diagnostic healthcare industry. Decentralized testing empowers clinicians to make lifesaving decisions for the patient. It shortens supply chain lag time, saves costs of i...

Medicine production supply chains are currently operating under huge stress due to the war in Ukraine, COVID-19-related disruptions, logistics bottlenecks, and inflation. An energy-related shutdown of production would have a detrimental effect on the supply of critical medicines to patients in the EU and worldwide. The excessive amount of pressure ...

As clinical pipelines globally witness a surge in novel complex therapies, the clinical trial industry demands new tools in predictive analytics to improve trial design, planning, and execution. Artificial intelligence is gaining large-scale recognition as support for decentralized trial designs, thus enabling patient-centric clinical trial designs...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, molecular diagnostics mergers/acquisition transactions and product launches for infectious disease testing are indicating a pivot toward a new direction or an enhancement of portfolios. The emergence of saliva sample testing and the transition to PCR-based syndromic and direct-to-consumer testing for respir...

An increasing focus on biologics, genomics, and multi-omics; the adoption of digital technologies; and a shift to patient-centric models are transforming the life sciences industry. At the same time, the emergence of value-based models, R&D activities to treat complex diseases, and healthcare consumerism provide an impetus to precision medicine. Wi...

Clinical genomics regained significance during the pandemic with the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and several non-invasive at-home test kits; an unprecedented feat in recent times. Genomics will take center stage, as large genome sequencing and research will continuously create data for new therapeutics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) an...