Life Sciences

The treatment of rare diseases requires the use of specialized drugs. Patient populations for rare diseases are most often quite small, consequently the products treating them earn the designation orphan drugs. These drugs must undergo the research, development, and clinical trials that all drugs do, yet the investment into the development is great...

The US molecular diagnostics market is growing at 12.5% CAGR and is set to reach close to $6.5 billion by 2021. PCR, next-generation sequencing (NGS), microarray, and fluorescent in situ-hybridization (FISH) are the dominant technologies in this space with PCR holding more than 75% of the market. Roche, Cepheid, Qiagen, Abbott, and Thermo Fisher do...

13 Sep 2016  |  North America

US Next-generation Sequencing Services Market

$1,000 Genome Pricing and Throughput to Drive More and Larger Sequencing Projects

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The next-generation sequencing (NGS) services market includes all sequencing services conducted with next-generation or third-generation platforms that use newer technology than traditional capillary electrophoresis (CE) sequencing. Services include project scoping, NGS sample preparation tasks (i.e., library prep and target enrichment), and NGS-ba...

25 Jul 2016  |  North America

US Hospital Cybersecurity Market—2015–2021

Healthcare Gears Up to Combat the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks

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The report describes and defines the market for various types of solutions (products and services) deployed by US hospitals to protect the security of enterprise information technology (IT) systems and the privacy and security of patient information; covers key factors driving the need to deploy these solutions in response to dynamic industry shift...

Frost & Sullivan reviews key themes and industry trends from the 5th Annual Digital Health Summer Summit and BIO International held in June 2016. Major topics covered include the use of virtual and augmented reality in medical education and clinical care; new digital health technologies to improve mental health; investor perspectives on the market ...

With regards to wearables and healthcare, strong customer demand and surging sales are only part of the story. The other side of the narrative captures the tale of a highly volatile marketplace where, due to intense competition, there is a revolving door of company entries and exits. Accordingly, Frost & Sullivan’s team, through its tracking of w...

23 Jun 2016  |  North America

Growth Opportunities in the US Point-of-care Testing Market

Digital Health Meets Point of Care—Emergence of Mobile Molecular Diagnostics

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The US point-of-care testing (POCT) study provides an extensive analysis for 13 segments: hematology, urinalysis, infectious disease, cardiac, HbA1c, glucose, fecal occult blood test/fecal immunochemical test (FOBT/FIT), coagulation PT/INR, coagulation APTT/ACT, cholesterol, pregnancy, drugs of abuse, and blood gas and electrolytes. Key trends and ...

The American Telemedicine Association held its annual conference in Minneapolis from May 14 to 17, 2016. This event has become the premier gathering for healthcare professionals, technology innovators, and journalists to attend presentations of key opinion leaders and see the latest telemedicine products on display in an exhibit hall. The highlig...

France is far behind Netherlands, which has the highest penetration rate of medical imaging contracts under non-conventional business models such as managed equipment services (MES) and multi-vendor services (MVS), and behind the United Kingdom, which has the largest number of such contracts. The French Ministry of Health’s substantial cost-cutti...