Industry Reports

2008 Healthcare Asia Pacific Outlook

Frost & Sullivan

The Asia Pacific healthcare markets are expected to grow at about 10 per cent in 2008. This year is a key year to the Asia Pacific healthcare industry as a trend of migration from "sick care" mentality to "health care" philosophy is happening.

Medical Tourism

Ian Youngman, Specialist writer / researcher

Too many hospitals, governments and agencies do claim ludicrously high figures, but there is general agreement that the top four Asian countries (India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) get in excess of one and a half million medical tourists a year.

Healthcare Technology - Opportunities in the Electronic Health Record Market (Review Report)

Datamonitor

EHRs will help change the healthcare industry from today’s reactive, frenetic environment to one that is more proactive, informed and leverages planned workflows. The majority of players in healthcare realize this, but reaching a consensus on how to make this transition has been difficult to say the least.

Closing the seams Developing an integrated approach to health system disaster preparedness

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Closing the seams examines the preparedness of healthcare systems, identifies gaps, and highlights emerging solutions and innovative best practices that can be leveraged to help providers and communities deliver healthcare in the face of the unknown.

Top Eight Health Industry Issues in 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Healthcare is in the forefront of the collective American mind this year, more so than it has been in over a decade. As consumers are given more responsibility over healthcare decisions—from insurance to drugs to provider options—health executives will be expected to publicly convey their industry’s quality, safety, and affordability.

Digital Imaging - The Continued Growth Of The PACS Market, 2006- 2011

Datamonitor

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACSs) will play a more prominent role within healthcare services as institutions seek ways to improve efficiency and provide a higher standard of care. PACS addresses providers’ storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation requirements for medical imaging.

Economic Analysis for the Chinese Healthcare Industry

Frost & Sullivan

The Chinese economy has witnessed tremendous growth since 1980, when the government began to implement reforms to transform the economy from a centrally planned system to a market-oriented system. The Chinese economy is expected to record an annual growth rate of 8.0 percent during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010).

Japanese Diabetes Diagnostics Markets

Frost & Sullivan

The Japanese diabetes diagnostics market is the largest market in Asia Pacific. It has grown at a stable rate in 2005 and is expected to grow at a higher rate over the period 2005 to 2012. This is considered to be a high growth market with immense market potential. The increasing incidence of diabetes and the resulting higher volumes of diagnostic tests are bound to support this strong growth.

Healthcare Outlook - Ten industry trends: 2007

Technopak Advisors Ltd.

The growing demand for quality healthcare and the absence of matching delivery mechanisms pose a great challenge and an even greater opportunity. Here’s an informed view of trends
& drivers for the Indian healthcare industry.

Clinical Laboratory Instrumentation Market in Singapore

Frost & Sullivan

The clinical laboratory instrumentation market has become fiercely competitive with every new placement resulting in a gain for one market participant but a direct loss of revenue for another, particularly since there is no lack of capital and financing in the Singaporean market. The total clinical laboratory instrumentation market in Singapore was valued at US$ 11.4 million in 2005 and is forecast to grow by 4.4 percent in 2006.

South Korean Diabetes Diagnostics Markets

Frost & Sullivan

The South Korean diabetes diagnostics market grew at a higher pace in 2005 over 2004, and is expected to grow even at a higher compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2005 to 2012.

Chinese Diabetes Diagnostics Market

- Frost & Sullivan

The Chinese diabetes diagnostics market is the second largest in Asia after Japan. The market witnessed a growth rate of 4.7 percent in 2005 over 2004 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0 percent during the period 2005 to 2012.

Singapore Medical Device Market

Espicom Business Intelligence

In 2006, the Singapore medical device market stands at US$178 million, similar to that of
Chile or Slovenia. In per capita terms, with a total of US$41, the market is similar to that of fellow Asian Tigers Korea and Taiwan.

The Personalized Health Paradigm - Transforming the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries for the 21st Century

Health Industry Insights

The growing ability to access and exploit the expanding wealth of biological knowledge is beginning to transform both the life science and healthcare industries through the emerging field of personalized health.

Advances in PACS Technologies

Frost & Sullivan

Technology that will change the landscape of diagnostic imaging. Coverage of key participants and developments.

Commercial Insight: Antihypertensives - New challenges for a maturing market

Datamonitor

Overall CAGR of the antihypertensive market is declining. In 2005 the antihypertensive market across the seven major markets grew by only 4.4%. However, Datamonitor forecasts suggests that growth between 2006 and 2010 will slow to only 2.4%, and growth between 2006 and 2015 only amount to 1.5%.

Cost-saving Benefits Likely to Drive Southeast Asian Hospital Information Systems Market

Frost & Sullivan

The revenues in the industry totalled US $115.5 million in 2005 and are likely to reach US $197.9 million in 2009.

European Healthcare IT Outsourcing Market

Frost & Sullivan

The European healthcare IT market is set to experience steady growth riding on the initiatives shown by regional and national health authorities. Some regions will move swiftly to capitalise on the benefits to the healthcare industry. These markets represent the biggest potential for Outsourcing.

Healthcare 2015: Win-win or lose-lose? - A portrait and a path to successful transformation

IBM

By 2015, consumers will assume much greater financial oversight and responsibility for their healthcare, which, in turn, will drive the demand for value data that is readily accessible, reliable, and understandable.

Health Care Equipment & Supplies in Asia-Pacific

Datamonitor

The Asia-Pacific healthcare equipment and supplies market grew by 5.7% in 2005 to reach US $33.1 billion.

Hospital Information Systems

Frost & Sullivan

From admission to diagnostic and medical support services, the modern healthcare centers rely on wide range of software applications.

Innovations In Diagnostics - Next generation molecular and point-of-care diagnostics driving personalized healthcare

Business Insights

Although realizing the potential of new technologies will depend on overcoming challenges such as regulatory and reimbursement hurdles, new diagnostic opportunities will expand the IVD market to over $40bn by 2010.

Markets for Medical Devices in the BRIC Nations

Espicom Business Intelligence

The four BRIC countries accounted for 5.5% of the world market in 2005. Both Brazil and China are in the world's ten largest markets.

The Medical Device Market in Taiwan - Opportunities and Challenges

Espicom Business Intelligence

Though increasingly capable of manufacturing its own basic medical supplies and instruments, Taiwan still relies almost wholly on imports.

Understanding the Telehealth Technology Value Chain

Datamonitor

With the expanding breadth of digital communications and the increasing capacity and decreasing costs of complex devices, it has become possible to communicate medical data in new and exciting ways.

Medical Imaging Markets - Volume I: Radiography

Kalorama Information

Digital technology enables x-ray modalities to detect problem sites more rapidly and with greater accuracy helping fuel hospitals’ transition from film-based systems to filmless environments.