Healthcare Industry

27 August 2010, Pages - 23

Global Dialysis Market 2009-2013 report by Technavio Insights forecasts the Dialysis market to grow at a CAGR of 7.2 percent, with Americas (including North America and Latin America) having the largest market share of 51.4 percent.

The major growth drivers include:
- Consumers are more aware of healthcare than before, thus they give high priority to preventive and therapeutic care
- Increasing portability of dialysis products, which means the products can be easily carried by the end users, for example home-based dialysis systems are gaining popularity as they provide convenience of being used by patients at home
- Increasing cost control initiatives by the Government, which offers large number of public healthcare programs and includes reimbursement of the costs for a majority of dialysis treatments

However, the market is faced with some challenges which can inhibit the growth. The dialysis product manufacturers experience continuous demand for improving dialysis products. This could lead to an increase in the product price, which could turn out to be a deterrent. Another growth inhibitor can be high cost of dialysis and availability of alternative treatments, which can naturally turn away the users from these products.

For the purpose of this report, the Global Dialysis market refers to the methods to treat End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) which is an irreversible loss of kidney function which includes artificial means for removal of toxins and excess fluids from the bloodstream. The report analyzes Dialysis market’s recent performance and provides worldwide market revenue and growth rates from 2009 through to 2013.

the report provides the market segmentation and forecasts for the market in each region (Americas, EMEA, APAC) for the period 2009 through to 2013. It includes comprehensive analysis of various trends and changes taking place in the Dialysis market around the globe. It further explains the factors influencing market growth and also inhibitors preventing their adoption. It also provides basic profiles of some of the leading vendors in the market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010    No of Pages - 24

The adoption of EHR is increasingly gaining momentum in the healthcare organizations. An EHR system establishes a more efficient and effective information infrastructure that improves clinical documentation and enhances patient care & safety. This is because digital records can integrate various tasks and are more efficiently manageable than paper records. Moreover, in the current global medical environment, EHR systems help in coordinating the appointments of international patients (who travel to various treatment centers). This can be accounted to the advantages of EHR being able to provide seamless connectivity to many electronic medical record systems; offering secure access to patient health information. Therefore, EHR is becoming a strategic priority for hospitals to deliver safe, higher quality and cost effective care.

Further, EHR facilitates integration of information between the various healthcare service providers across the hospitals implementing the software in a region, a country or across the world. In addition, the hospitals' effort to become patient-centric, enhance patient safety and better manage their resources is likely to continue to drive the demand for EHR.

The high upfront costs involved to implement and maintain the technology, coupled with lack of IT resources, hinder the growth of EHR. However, SaaS (Software as a Service) based EHR provides the best approach for small hospitals and solo physicians offices. A subscription-based SaaS EHR becomes much easier and cost effective for buyers, as EHR vendor hosts the solution. Further, speech recognition tool is also gaining importance during the adoption of EHR system. This is because speech recognition facilitates direct feed into the patient health record. Thus, eliminating the lag time of transcription, enabling the physicians to easily navigate through the EHR system. Thus, the EHR vendors need to update their EHR product portfolio and include SaaS and speech recognition in order to grab the EHR market opportunity.

With the economic downturn, the operating IT budgets of the healthcare organizations has been affected. This has led to reduced IT investments. Thus, resulting in extension of implementation time on existing projects and delay on new capital projects. However, the worldwide government support and standardization of EHR system is expected to offer potential opportunity in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Market.

The report by Technavio highlights scope of the Global Electronic Health Record (EHR) market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors and a few major vendors in the market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010     No of Pages - 21

Hospitals are increasingly automating the delivery of healthcare services to make the care process more efficient. This is because digital records (provided by the HIS) integrate various tasks and are more efficiently manageable than the medical records stored in the paper format. Also, hospitals are increasingly venturing into new areas of integrated capabilities; such as connecting medical devices that help reduce healthcare costs, while improving the quality of patient care. Thus, setting a trend of transforming information into intelligence.

The Hospital Information Systems are increasingly becoming person-centric; enabling clinicians at the point of care to access the most up-to-date results and clinical information. Also, browser-based information systems are gaining momentum, as they facilitate immediate access to results and clinical information. Thus, HIS helps in shaping the healthcare delivery services by optimizing and automating patient flow and care delivery. Further, HIS helps create a secure, transparent and open network for data sharing to improve disease management; in turn, improving satisfaction among patients, physicians, and hospital employees.

HIS offers several benefits, such as providing seamless connectivity and managing information, thus, offering secure access to patient information. Further, hospitals' effort to become patient-centric, enhance patient safety and manage their resources and revenue stream in a better way continues to drive the demand for HIS. In addition, the increased government support to digitalize the healthcare delivery services offers potential growth opportunity to the HIS market. However, there are several factors influencing the HIS market, such as integration policies, high cost of HIS, and high post sale support & maintenance expenses.

This report highlights scope of the Global Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors and a few major vendors in the market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010    No of Pages - 20

The market for Hip Implant is witnessing rapid technological advancements, resulting in improved design, and enhanced implant materials offering more durability. Also, new surgical techniques that are minimally invasive are gaining momentum in hip replacement surgery. Thus, helping patients lead quality and more active lifestyle.

Bone conservation is becoming an important aspect in total hip arthroplasty. Minimal utilization of bone stock during a primary hip replacement provides more options for potential future revision hip surgery. Apart from preserving the bone and soft tissue, bone conserving implant stems can be effective, and potentially increase long term outcomes as compared to some of the conventional femoral stems. Therefore, with increasing emphasis on bone conservation procedures, orthopedic implant manufacturers are introducing a number of bone conserving hip joints. Such improved stem designs helps preserve patient's natural bone during surgical procedures. Therefore, the industry is witnessing increasingly popularity of resurfacing hip surgery with patients opting for alternative approach to total joint replacement surgery.

However, the recession has slowed the Hip Implant market growth. Furthermore, the on-going effortsto reduce healthcare costs is leading to intense pressure on the pricing model. Thus, there is an increased pressure on the manufactures to reduce the implant prices, which may affect the growth of Hip implant market.

Nonetheless, the increasing cases of hip related diseases coupled with growing aging population (who are more prone to hip related degenerative conditions) is likely to continue to increase the demand for hip implants. Additionally, with advances in bio-materials and techniques, and increasing number of young patients undergoing hip arthroplasty offer potential growth opportunity in the Hip Implant market.

This report highlights scope of the Global Hip Implant market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors and a few major vendors in the market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010   No of Pages - 20

The Knee Implant market is experiencing significant technological advancements in the Orthopedic Implant market (and is the second largest segment in the Orthopedic Implant market, only next to the Spine market). As a result, innovative and advanced implant materials have been introduced. Thus, helping patients lead quality and more active lifestyle.

Previously, knee replacement surgery was reserved to treat severe arthritis in elderly patients above 65 years. There were concerns (like wearing out the implant) in performing these surgeries in younger patients due to the requirement of revision surgery. However, technological advancements leading to innovative replacement devices and improved implant materials have increased the implants' durability. Therefore, knee replacement surgery is becoming more common among the younger and active population, who are in their early 40s and 50s. This in turn has boosted the growth of the Knew Implant market

The recent slowdown in economy has resulted in many hospitals cutting down on capital spending, and patients delaying in performing elective surgeries. This, in turn, has adversely affected many orthopedic implant manufacturers. Further, the Knee Implant market is also witnessing intense pressure on the manufacturers on the pricing model of knee implants; thus, affecting the growth of the Knee Implant market.

Nonetheless, the Knee Implant market is expected to grow potentially in the future with the increasing cases of knee related diseases, and growth in the aging population (who are more prone to knee related diseases).

This report highlights scope of the Global Knee Implant market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors and a few major vendors in the market.

 Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010   No of Pages - 19

The Spine Fusion Equipment market is experiencing significant advancements. The emergence of newer Non-fusion technologies (such as dynamic stabilization, disc replacement, nucleus replacement, etc.,) are increasingly gaining momentum in the industry. Thus, giving competition to the future growth of the Spine Fusion Equipment market (However, recognition of fusion procedure in the treatment of degenerative spine conditions still favors the spine fusion procedures). Further, a substantial increase in the number of new spine surgery companies introducing innovative, improved spine fusion devices intensifies the competition among the market players.

This report highlights the scope of the Global Spine Fusion Equipment market, along with trends, drivers, growth inhibitors, and a few major vendors in the market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

Date - 20 April 2010     No of Pages- 20

The Spine Surgery Equipment market is witnessing rapid technological advancements leading to innovative and improved product offerings. Other trends observed in this industry include existence of intense competition in the market due to increasing number of new spine surgery equipment manufacturers. Further, the industry has been witnessing market consolidation, mergers and acquisitions. Also, the newer technologies such as dynamic stabilization, disc replacement, nucleus replacement, etc., are increasingly gaining importance in this industry; leading to potential opportunities for non-fusion spine surgery devices.

The increasing cases of spine related diseases coupled with the growing aging population (as older people are more prone to spine-related diseases) offers potential growth opportunity in the Spine Surgery Equipment market.

In the past few years, the Spine Surgery Equipment market has witnessed the emergence of a new segment- Motion Preservation. This can be attributed to the technological advancements, leading to developments of novel spine surgical procedures. Motion Preservation technique involve the usage of artificial discs, developed specifically for degenerative disc diseases of the spine. The technique offers the advantage of less invasive, less traumatic procedures. Further, Motion Preservation techniques provide a faster recovery and return to normal activity. Thus, the motion preservation devices represent a potential opportunity within the Spine Surgery Equipment market.

The report by TechNavio Insights forecasts the size of the Global Spine Surgery Equipment market over the period 2009-2013. Further, it discusses the key market trends, drivers and challenges of Spine Surgery Equipment market, and profiles some of the key vendors of this market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

5 March 2010, No of Pages - 22

Medical devices comprise surgical equipment & appliances; diagnostic & imaging devices; ophthalmic equipment; laboratory devices & diagnostics; dental equipment; medical disposables and others.

The Medical devices market in Spain is experiencing changes in the healthcare standards, which has increased the healthcare expenditure and demand for latest technology. Moreover, with the growing demand of quality healthcare, the existing and new hospitals are procuring modern medical technologies. Additionally, the Spanish government is taking initiatives to provide improved and sustainable healthcare to its citizens. Further, the technological advancements leading to innovative devices and medical solutions, coupled with the growing public private partnerships (PPP) offer potential growth in the Medical devices market in Spain.

In the last few years, the Medical devices market in Spain has seen potential growth. However, presently, due to recession, there are budgetary constraints , limiting the growth in the medical devices sector. Further, there is increasing pressure and demand on public healthcare system as it contributes a major share in the delivery of healthcare services in the country. Nonetheless, with the improvement in the financial condition, the Medical devices market in Spain is estimated to potentially grow over the next few years.

The report by TechNavio Insights forecasts the size of the Medical Devices Market in Spain over the period 2009-2013. Further, it discusses the key market trends, drivers and challenges of Medical Devices market in Spain, and profiles some of the key vendors of this market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.

5 March 2010, No of Pages - 23

Medical devices comprise surgical equipment & appliances, diagnostic devices, X-ray, ophthalmic equipment, laboratory devices & diagnostics, dental equipment, medical disposables and others.

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) is becoming a key feature in the South African healthcare system. Such partnerships help in infrastructure development, skills development and provide trainings to nurses. Further, such partnerships enhances the delivery of healthcare services and provide quality healthcare to the people. It also brings out modernization process by replacing all out-of-date by state-of-the-art medical equipment. For instance, through the collaboration between Eastern Cape Health and Nalithemba Hospitals, Netcare (a private hospital network in South Africa) opened Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown.

The report by TechNavio Insights forecasts the size of the Medical Devices market in South Africa over the period 2009-2013. Further, it discusses the key market trends, drivers and challenges of Medical Devices market in South Africa, and profiles some of the key vendors of this market.

Special Offer: You can request one free hour of analyst time when you purchase this report. Details provided within the report.