Growing “Out of Pocket” Healthcare Market (Spending on Surgeries, Pharmaceuticals and Other Healthcare Services), The

    Published: November 1, 2007 | Price: $3,250.00 – $6,500.00

    While insurance is the most common form of payment for healthcare services, increasingly customers are paying for their own expenses. Pharmaceutical, device and diagnostic companies, should recognize that a part of their revenues are originating directly or indirectly from out of pocket expenditures. Health care costs are high and accelerating as a result of a confluence of factors within the broader economy, as well as the health care marketplace. Unique financial services have been created to facilitate non-insurance-paid health care...
    Retail Clinics, The Emerging Market for Convenience and In-Store Healthcare

    Published: October 1, 2007 | Price: $995.00 – $5,990.00

    Retail clinics, also known as convenience clinics, represent a disruptive innovation into the U.S. health care market, which evolved from and is uniquely positioned to benefit from the health care system’s shortcomings. These clinics present a new opportunity for retail outlets to earn more revenue from rents and 'indirect' revenues from sales to the retail store as a result of a clinic visit. But there is also an opportunity for diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies to capitalize on this trend. Kalorama...
    Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers

    Published: October 1, 2007 | Price: $995.00 – $1,990.00

    For food ingredient companies willing to enter the non-food market, there is over a billion dollars of market potential awaiting them. In addition to increasing the profitability of their traditional product lines, producers of ingredients can potentially expand their markets by moving their products or byproducts into the healthcare sector, where drug producers or manufacturers of some biomedical devices could incorporate them into their products. Kalorama Information's Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers details the sources of ancillary revenue that...
    RFID Opportunities in Healthcare in the U.S.

    Published: June 1, 2007 | Price: $1,995.00 – $7,990.00

    RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technologies are dramatically changing many industries, but as detailed in Kalorama's market research report RFID Opportunities in Healthcare in the U.S., the greatest market for RFID is in healthcare. Hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing homes, and other healthcare entities will benefit from using the technologies to keep track of inventories and patients. What are the best markets within healthcare for RFID? How will benefits outweigh costs? How are these technologies best implemented? Who are the leading providers...
    U.S. Market for Home Care Products, 5th Edition

    Published: May 1, 2007 | Price: $2,995.00 – $7,990.00

    This study The U.S. Market for Home Care Products, 5th Edition represents the fifth time Kalorama Information has investigated this growing market over the past 12 years. The U.S. market for home care products and equipment continues to post steady gains, primarily as a result of the aging population and increasing shifts of chronic care patients from hospitals to home. Serious market watchers will want to keep aware of trends in this industry, major players and market data. In 2006,...
    Wireless Opportunities in Healthcare (The Market for Bluetooth, RFID, Zigbee, UWB WWAN, WMAN, WLAN and other technologies)

    Published: January 1, 2007 | Price: $1,100.00 – $7,800.00

    Wireless technologies and healthcare are a perfect fit. The clinical environment is a highly mobile one, and physicians, nurses and other clinical operators have a real need for fast information and action. With a record of successful implementations across aspects of healthcare from patient care to sales, wireless technologies have moved from conjecture to reality. Hospitals are dedicating large portions of current and future budgets to IT development and wireless is likely to be among their choices. Given these trends,...
    Long-Term Care Market: Nursing Homes, Home Care, Hospice Care, and Assisted Living, The

    Published: January 1, 2006 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00

    The U.S. long-term care industry experienced strong growth from 1999 through 2004 and this growth is expected to continue through the end of the decade. Indeed, the aging of the U.S. population will push unprecedented demand for all forms of long-term care, but ongoing cost containment issues continue to pressure both private and public managed care organizations and make competition in this dynamic environment challenging. This comprehensive study from Kalorama Information details four segments of the long-term care industry, including:...
    U.S. Market for Clinical Information Systems – An Analysis of the Growing Use of Information Technology for Hospital-Based Patient Care, The

    Published: October 1, 2005 | Price: $895.00 – $5,990.00

    Information technology (IT) has the potential to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of clinical care. IT is not new to the hospital setting. Computers and software have been used for many years to improve the paper-based administrative functions of hospital support staff, such as scheduling and billing. But the use of IT in the clinical setting to optimize, streamline and simplify patient records, testing, imaging and operating room procedures has lagged behind its medical administrative applications. The evolution of...
    Hispanics and Healthcare: Understanding Demographics, Health Statistics, and Attitudes for More Effective Marketing

    Published: May 1, 2005 | Price: $1,995.00 – $3,990.00

    In the last decade the importance of reaching the Hispanic market has become increasingly apparent to marketing practitioners in all industries. Hispanics have not only increased in numbers to become the largest ethnic minority population in the United States, but also increased in purchasing power, representing an estimated $680 billion in 2004 and expected to grow at an average annual rate of 8%. For many industries, including pharmaceutical and healthcare, Hispanics constitute an unfamiliar segment of the market, but one...
    Wellness Market Opportunities in the Aging American Population: Alternative Medicine Markets for Age-Related Health Issues

    Published: September 1, 2004 | Price: $3,500.00 – $7,000.00

    With an aging population in the United States, the incidence of prevalence of age-related diseases and disorders is expected to mount rapidly over the next decade. Since senior citizens already consume a disproportionate amount of healthcare dollars, the economic picture will only go from bad to worse insofar as healthcare is concerned. The solution to this problem, for this generation and the future, is prevention. The new emphasis on prevention opens up a scope of opportunity in the alternative care...