Healthcare

The US market for bracing devices and supports consists of bracing products for the upper and lower extremities such as the knee, ankle, lumbar back, elbow, and wrist. Such braces are used for supporting various orthopedic joints for prophylactic, post-trauma, and/or post-surgery use. This market is in a mature state and growth avenues are modest. ...

The market insight discusses the long-term care market in the context of the US Medicare expenditure and national expenditure forecasts from 2011–2017. Aspects discussed in this market insight include types of services offered, top laboratories catering to the long-term care market, top long-term care providers in the US market, ownership and dis...

This study provides an analysis of the global laboratory research tools market, segmented by the United States (US), Canada, Europe, Japan, India, China, Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of World (ROW). Product categories analyzed include instruments and equipment, consumables, and chemicals, reagents and kits. The US market is also segmented by end users,...

This study provides trends in the US immunochemistry market and the clinical chemistry market. The install base of analyzer models from top vendors are projected from 2012 and 2013, and resulting trends have been studied. The study includes list prices of analyzers, analytes detected, and average discounts offered. Customer segmentation includes va...

Frost & Sullivan conducted an online survey of information technology (IT) professionals working in US healthcare provider organizations (primarily hospitals) from mid-March to mid-May, 2014. The maximum number of respondents was 66; the average number of respondents ranged between 50 and 66. Topics covered in the study include the deployment of el...

As with every cardiology tradeshow today, the show floor of the 2014 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona (Aug. 30-Sept. 3) reserved quite a significant presence for medical imaging. This comes as no surprise, since imaging and informatics continues to reaffirm their role as an important driving force for advancing several are...

Hantavirus is a disease that is prevalent in Europe and has shown to have almost fifty percent mortality rate in the US. The increased mortality rate is due to inaccesibility to diagnostic tests and the mis-diagnosis of the disease. This report offers revenue forecasts for the Hantavirus diagnostic market for each of the following regions European,...

Electronic cigarettes and vaping products have taken the tobacco industry by storm. Multiple public reports have e-cigarettes surpassing traditional tobacco sales within the next six to ten years if growth rates continue to climb. Due to the lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation, e-cigarette year-over-year growth declined from 2010-...

The Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) market in 2013 is at a period of transition as consumer health technologies are increasing in availability and lowering price points for direct-to-consumer monitoring care. The mobile trend of convergence in remote care continues to expand offerings, with mPERS launches from Tier 1 vendors on down. We ...