In this research deliverable, Frost & Sullivan’s senior analyst team across the healthcare sector provides bold perspectives and predictions for the industry in 2016. The markets covered include pharmaceuticals and biotech, medical devices, medical imaging, and healthcare IT, amongst others. The analysis captures the impact of trends that are exp...

Robots have increasingly become important in the field of surgical interventions due to growing complexity of surgical procedures for difficult diseases, and greater demand towards minimal invasive surgery. This research service highlights technological advances and innovations in surgical robots. The R&D network driving the growth of surgical robo...

The relationships between imaging vendors and hopsital systems are evolving. From traditional one-time purchase and service contracts, vendors and hospital systems are currently entering into long-term strategic risk-sharing partnerships that enable care providers to optimize patient scanning experience, improve work flow efficiencies, reduce costs...

Healthcare interoperability is a global challenge for industry stakeholders. While a number of organizations are working towards developing and implementing industry standards, challenges emerge every day as technologies and their uses evolve. Advances in Big Data, genomics, and pharmacy information technology (IT) are helping to identify new appli...

The Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) AsiaPac organized the second annual Digital Healthcare Week, which took place in September 2015. The conference is regarded as a key industry event in the region, attended by leading health information technology vendors, healthcare providers, government personnel, industry experts, medi...

Successful healthcare business models have evolved to increasingly focus on building customer excellence—both product and processes are important for a company’s business model to be successful. While a product provides the base, the process becomes very important for the good execution of the product and also to provide value to customers for...

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), there are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases, of which less than 30 are diagnosable. Being 1 of the top 10 causes of death in the United States, there is a critical need in the market for the diagnosis and the treatment of both systemic diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, as ...

With a population of 620 million, ASEAN represents approximately 8.6% of the global population. With a combined GDP of US$2.4 trillion in 2013, growing at an average annual rate of 5.6%, the region’s economic growth outpaces many other regional and global economies. Demand for healthcare services is expected to surge due to factors such as popula...

This Vital Signs issues discusses Panasonic Healthcare's completed acquisition of Bayer's Diabetes Care Unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific's acquisition of Affymetrix, several moves in the single cell-genomics market by Bio-Rad, Illumina, Qiagen, and 10x Genomics, and Abbott's acquisition of Alere.