Healthcare Industry News

 With the increasing prevalence of various chronic diseases and the surging costs of healthcare and patient care across the world, the demand for healthcare insurance is growing rapidly. A healthcare insurance covers the surgical and medical expenses incurred during the treatment of the insured individual. Moreover, a healthcare insurance can reimburse the various expenses incurred during the treatment of the injury or illness or directly pay the healthcare providers for the treatment of the insured person. On the other hand, disease insurance is used for covering the expenses incurred during the treatment of specific diseases, injuries, and illnesses such as cancer, paralysis, heart attack, sclerosis, kidney failure, and coma. This insurance provides coverage in cases of different medical events or disease diagnosis. Under the income protection policy, a fixed and regular replacement of income is provided if the insured individual is not able to work because of an illness or injur...

The prevalence of diseases across the globe has been rising rapidly. Incidence of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially, are on the rise due to the changing lifestyle of people and growing consumption of tobacco among people. Patients suffering from these diseases often need to go through surgical procedures for the management of diseases. Between medical gas and medical gas equipment, the demand for medical gases has been higher in medical settings and the situation is expected to remain the same in the coming years as well. Two types of medical gases are utilized in healthcare settings, namely pure medical gas (including helium, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, nitrogen, and medical air medical gas) and medical gas mixture (including ethylene oxide, blood gas, helium oxygen, lung diffusion, anaerobic, nitrous oxide-oxygen, laser, and carbon dioxide-oxygen mixture). Other than this, medical gas equipment is of different types as well, namely medical gas delivery...

  For many people in Europe, especially emotionally disturbed teens, drugs are their best friends! But, as everyone knows, whether an addict or not, drugs are not good. Though they help people escape their troubles for a while, they lead to long-lasting ill-effects, such as risk of AIDS and hepatitis C. Due to the increasing concerns among relatives and friends about drug abuse by their loved ones, they are rapidly using methods to test the presence of such substances in the body of suspected users. Thus, with the rising prevalence of drug abuse in the continent, the European drug of abuse testing market is predicted to grow to $3.0 billion by 2023, from $1.7 billion revenue in 2017, at a 9.6% CAGR during 2018–2023. Such kits and products can be used to determine the presence of a number of toxicants in the body, including amphetamines, opiates, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, and ecstasy, commonly known as MDMA, which is short for its chemical formula 3,4-methyl ​ enedioxy ​ meth...

 The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the U.S. Department of Commerce, states that the personal disposable income of the U.S. populace increased from $17,595.7 billion in the third quarter (Q3) in 2020 to $18,174.1 billion in Q3 of 2021. Likewise, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) states that the gross national disposable income of the people of India grew from INR 1,92,62,652 crore in the financial year (FY) 2018–2019 to INR 2,06,30,319 crore in the FY 2019–2020. The soaring disposable income of people is encouraging them to use advanced technologies to improve their physical experience.  Thus, the rising disposable income along with the growing geriatric population will help the facial skin ablative treatment market exhibit a CAGR of 7.8% during 2020–2030. According to P&S Intelligence, the market was valued at $4,134.6 million in 2019 and it will generate $8,394.3 million revenue by 2030. As aging causes wrinkles and fine lines, old people are one of the prominent user...

The global generic drugs market reached $278.4 billion revenue in 2019, and it will advance at a CAGR of 10.0% during 2020–2030 (forecast period), as per the estimates of the market research company, P&S Intelligence. Furthermore, the market is expected to generate a revenue of $786.0 billion by 2030. The market is being driven by the surging geriatric population, surging incidence of patent expiration of branded drugs, growing prevalence of acute and chronic diseases, and soaring research and development (R&D) expenditure of pharma and biotech companies.  As per a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), people nowadays are living longer and the average life expectancy across the world has grown massively over the last few years. This has caused a sharp surge in the global geriatric population. According to the World Population Aging 2020 report published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the population of people aged...

The increasing preference for healthcare information technologies (HCITs) has led to the widescale adoption of ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) systems, globally. HCITs facilitate the secure exchange of health information between consumers, payers, and providers and enable the management of health information across all computer systems. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) under the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), office-based physicians, pediatricians, and gynecologists/obstetricians in the country are the largest users of HCITs. This has further stimulated the adoption of ambulatory EHR systems in the country. Governments across the world are encouraging clinics and hospitals to switch from traditional health recording systems to the electric format. For instance, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of the U.S. government inspires medical facilities to adopt EHR systems, with the obj...

Blockchain, which is a shared immutable ledger for tracking assets and recording transactions, is being increasingly used by healthcare organizations to facilitate the process of data recording and asset tracking. Anything of value can be transmitted and tracked on a blockchain network, at low cost and reduced risk. In recent years, the blockchain technology has become an ideal data storing technology for this sector as it offers immediate, shared, and entirely transparent information collected in an immutable ledger that can be accessed only by authorized members. Thus, due to the exceptional data security offered by this new age record-keeping technology, the blockchain in healthcare market is expected to advance at 67.1% CAGR during 2018–2023. The market was valued at $44.6 million in 2017 and it is projected to reach $890.5 million by 2023. This technology stores data in blocks that are chained together. It links the data in chronological order so that once a new block is filled wi...