Healthcare

GE Healthcare IT provides clinical and financial IT solutions for hospitals and physicians. GE's health IT products are sold under the Centricity brand and consists of imaging IT solutions, electronic medical records, and financial and operations management solutions. Frost & Sullivan attended the annual GE Centricity LIVE User Conference recently ...

Market development around transparency in the cost of billable outpatient medical services is heating up in 2014, with the Health Care Cost Institute recently announcing a voluntary agreement with the three largest insurers in the US to publish standard charge rates across most CPT assigned services. Price transparency provides the benchmark by w...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on August 5, 2014, discusses the Senators plead to the FDA for the quick action regarding draft guidance on laboratory developed tests (LDTs), Synthetic Biologys Series A funding round, Roches investment in Stratos Genomics, and Indias cap on drug prices.

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual meeting and tradeshow in Baltimore this past May. The meeting is billed as the worlds largest telemedicine, mHealth, and telehealth meeting and tradeshow. The event is certainly an important venue for trendspotting all thats new and notable in this important and growing industry. Frost...

Despite global economic and industry challenges, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) markets are growing robustly at double the rate of the global pharmaceutical industry. The global IVD market size was $47.30 billion in 2013; it is expected to reach $62.63 billion in 2017, at a compound annual growth rate of 7.3%. Because of stagnating mature markets, comp...

This study explores the 2 broad segments of the global endoscopy devices market, namely applications (scopes) and solution components. An in-depth analysis of products/services, applications, and technologies available to end users is provided. The key topics covered include innovations and developments occurring within the endoscopy devices market...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on July 11, 2014, discusses game changing strategies in clinical research, including virtual clinical research organization (CRO) and the integrated business model.

This study provides an analysis of the US market for molecular imaging informatics solutions including nuclear imaging informatics, PET imaging informatics, and multimodality image fusion and comparison. The study assesses the size of the market based on its historic growth between 2010 and 2013, and projects future growth based on the current driv...