Global Ultrasound Devices Market statistics and forecast by 2017

The medical ultrasound devices market consists of devices that involve the projection of cyclic sound waves ranging between 20 KHz – 10 MHz. These waves create varying pressures on biological tissues, based on the level of frequencies used. Ultrasound has the ability to raise the temperature of a substance when directed in focused waves, and thus also finds therapeutic applications.

 

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Medical application of ultrasound began post World War II in the 1940s, with the first diagnostic application being in cardiology and brain tumor identification. Today ultrasound has medical applications in every area of the body and gives accurate results regarding overall structural composition, based on the density and transmission of the sound waves through biological tissue. Along with the conventional black and white ultrasound imaging systems, the global market also has high potential for color Doppler and 3D/4D imaging systems. The imaging clarity and diagnostic abilities offered by recent ultrasound devices is predicted to give a thrust to the overall global diagnostic market; this will also support other imaging technologies such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography, and PET/SPECT.

Ultrasound frequencies ranging between 0.8 MHz - 3.3 MHz have found use in therapeutic application in ablation of tissue. The ultrasound energy focused and directed towards unwanted tissue is transmitted harmlessly through the upper layers of tissue and focused only on the target area. This raises the temperature of the tissue, as a large amount of sonic energy is deposited within. As living cells are not able to dissipate the heat created quickly enough, the temperature rises above the survival threshold and the cells finally die due to coagulation necrosis. Cell death is also caused by cavitation, which is the implosion of microscopic bubbles inside the cell, thus leading to destruction of the cellular wall.

The diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound segments consist of highly advanced technologies used for imaging and treating a variety of medical conditions. The ultrasound imaging modality is a harmless non-invasive technique. There are no side-effects associated with its use, as researched in the past few years. Obstetrics and gynecology is the most popular application for ultrasound imaging; it has popularized ultrasound greatly and is one of the reasons people are familiar with the technology.

Although the current market is dominated by 2D, 3D & 4D ultrasound market is highly technologically driven, competitive and poised to become significant in size. The global market is driven by increasing application areas in oncology, cardiology and emergency medicine. The diagnostic market accounts for a much larger share since the technology is more mature than newly developed technologies such as HIFU.

Ultrasound also has other applications in movement detection for security, structural integrity of constructions, detection of wielding cracks, navigation and ranging in military and astronomy.

The 2011 global market is estimated to be at $5.6 billion and is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 6.2% to reach $8.1 billion by 2017.  Cart-based systems command the largest share of the ultrasound systems and are predicted to remain so for the coming decade. Devices such as Vscan (GE Healthcare), Acuson p10 (Siemens) and by other niche players such as Mobisante (U.S.) are expected to propel the growth of the hand-held segment of ultrasound devices. Meanwhile, the market such as High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and lithotripters is driven by the increasing demand from changing trends in fields such as cosmetology, ablative procedures, and lithography applications in kidney stones, bladder stones and others.

The global diagnostic market is led by key market players such as GE Healthcare (U.K.), Philips Healthcare (The Netherlands), Siemens Healthcare (Germany), Esaote Group (Italy), Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (Japan), HITACHI-Aloka Medical Corporation (Japan), SonoSite, Inc. (U.S.), Misonix, Inc. (U.S.), Ultrasonix Medical Corporation (Canada), Zonare Medical Systems (U.S.), and other players such as Mindray Medical (China), Terason Corporation (U.S.), Verathon, Inc. (Canada), Supersonic Imagine (France), Analogic Corporation (U.S.), and TomTec Imaging Systems GMBH (Germany).

The global therapeutic market is led by companies such as EDAP TMS (France), Dornier Medtech (Germany), InSightec (U.S.), Siemens Healthcare (Germany), Philips Healthcare (The Netherlands), and Misonix, Inc. (U.S.).

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Oral Care Product Market From 2011 To 2016

Introduction :

Oral Care products consists of :

• Bio-material Products
• Prostheses product
• Endo Product
• Or-tho Product
• Periodontics Product
• Restorative Product
• Alloys Product
• Cements Product
• Bonding Agent Product
• Various  Impression Materials
• Various  Preventives
• Various  Disposables

Oral Care Market consist of all these products.And no doubt it is very Huge market Money Wise.As we Are speaking about money let me tell you global market for all above products was valued $13 billion in 2011 and it is Expected to grow at CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 6% from 2011 to 2016,which is quite good.

 

Market of Oral Care Products :

the major reason for this growth is the increasing age of population across the globe along with this another factor is demand for enhanced oral care offers huge opportunities for innovation in products.in this market most product providers believe in direct customer interaction to improve sales and increase awareness of their products.Speaking about Developing nation the oral product market growing like anything the basic reasons behind it is increased awareness about oral hygiene,rising income level of masses in countries like India,China and finally new product development boots the market for dental products.similarly rising demand for aesthetic density and growing dental tourism further ensures growth of this market in upcoming years.

Emerging technology will have a great impact over the overall growth of the market as these technology will reduce the turnaround time for dental procedures and also improve the efficiency.foe example CAD/CAM technology has reduced designing time for dental prostheses significantly,3D imaging technology have improved patient diagnosis and procedure planning.
so we can say because of these technology oral care product market is growing in very fast rate.

If we speak about this market according to the region prospective we can say Europe is the largest regional market for dental products.we can say this because numerous market leaders based in this region and secondly large percentage of population can afford expensive dental procedures.America is the largest share holder of this market in Europe.Speaking about Asian countries like India , china , south Korea , Malaysia , Thailand and Singapore are also major contribute of this market the reason behind it is the population and increasing per capita incomes of large middle class population.

 

Major Player Of Oral Care Product Market Include :

1. Dents ply International (U.S.)
2. Ivoclar Viva-dent (Liechtenstein)
3. Dana her Corporation (U.S.)
4. Heraeus Dental (Germany)
5. 3M-ESPE (U.S.)
6. GC Corporation (Japan)

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HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : -INTRODUCTION,BENEFITS,MARKET

INTRODUCTION

Healthcare information technology is one of the area in IT Which is totally focused on Heathcare industry.In resent Days IT is emerged as a very profitable solution for Healthcare industry.It has helped to improve quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery by Designing, developing, Creating and maintaining the information system in a very cost effective manner. 

Various Automated and inter-operable healthcare information systems are low in cost but provide improved efficiency and less errors along with that provide better consumer care and services. Similarly it helps healthcare providers to collect, store, retrieve and transfer information electronically. 

Following are some major and consistent utilization of HIT:

1. Reduction of healthcare cost.
2. Improved and efficient healthcare services.
3. Increased and efficient healthcare productivity.
4. Prevent human errors, increased accuracy and procedural correctness.
5. Efficient administrative and healthcare work processes.
6. Vastly reduced paperwork and idle work time.
7. Improved and effective communication about health informatics among healthcare professionals.
8. Affordable healthcare.

Along with improved individual patient care, it will bring many public benefits, Such as:

1. Improved tracking of chronic disease management.
2. Early detection of infectious diseases.

Market of healthcare Information Technology

Due to all these benefits of HIT there is consistent rise in adoption of healthcare IT in Healthcare industry.

There are two Major segments of Healthcare IT :

1. Providers
2. Payers

The provider provide Various applications of clinical information system such as EHR,CVIS,CDSS, PACS, RIS, and CPOE to payers.HIT is the fastest growing market and highest revenue generated from above applications. Integrated EHR(electronic health record) is central component of the healthcare IT Infrastructure because it is fastest growing segment due to incentives offered to U.S. physicians who successfully meet the criteria of 'Meaningful Use' by 2015 and financial support provided by the HIPPA act.along with this various initiatives have been taken governments across the world to increase the adoption of EHR.

Following are the effective Government initiatives for adoption of EHR:-

1. the Pay-for-Performance program
2. the Minnesota EHR Incentive Program
3. the Health Information Technology Services Nova Scotia Program
4. the Alberta Net care EHR Program
5. e-health Ontario is an effective initiative

The another major segment in HIT is Cloud computing,it is emerged as a silver-lining model in HIT.

Following are the major pulse points about Cloud computing in HIT:-

1. management and migration of huge amount of data.
2. Cost Efficient.
3. anytime access from multiple mobile devices.
4.  high availability for large backup data storage.
5. Easy to use

There are  private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud among these for HIT the best suited and HIPAA recommended cloud is public cloud.

The provider IT is further segmented into two that are:-

1. Clinical IT applications
2. Non-clinical IT applications 

Clinical IT applications includes:-

1. Hospital informatics :-EHR, PACS, CPOE, RIS, CDSS, and CVIS
2. Pharmacy informatics
3. Laboratory informatics

Non-clinical IT applications includes:-

1. Payroll
2. Patient billing
3. Revenue cycle management
4. Cost accounting
5. Others

HIT payer Segmented into :-

1. workflow
2. administrative 
3. other solutions

Key Market Player Of HIT:-

1. Cerner Corporation
2. Epic 
3. Carestream Health
4. Inc. 
5. McKesson Corporation 
6. Athenahealth, Inc. 
7. Siemens Healthcare 
8. Medical Information System, Inc.
9. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
10. GE Healthcare 
11. Agfa Healthcare
12. NextGen Healthcare Information System
13. LLC
14. Novarad Corporation 
15. Philips Healthcare 
16. Hewlett-Packard

According to markesandmarkets market research report the global HIT market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 7.0% to reach $56.7 billion by 2017 from $40.4 billion in 2012 due to the significant demand for clinical information technology, administrative solutions, and services.

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Pharmacogenomics And Pharmacogenomics Market By 2017

The basic aim of Pharmacogenomics is to develop a relation between drug therapy and genetic structure of human which helps to optimize drug therapy with respect to patients genetic structure to maximize efficacy and minimize side effects.

so sometimes it is referred as "Personalized Medicine".

we can define it as :

Pharmacogenomics is the technology that analyses how Drug responses to an individual according to their genetic structure.

It analyse the influence of genetic variation of individual to the drug response by correlating gene expression (the process which is used in synthesis of various functions on the basis of gene information ) or  single nucleotide  polymorphism with drug toxicity or efficacy.

Basically variations in genetic structure,lifestyle of individual,environmental conditions of particular region,severity and type of disease affect on the treatment by individual basis.So genetic tests assists to determine best possible deug therapies and treatment protocol.

there are two types of input can be used to provide pharmacogenomics based on recommendation for a given drug that are 

1. Genotyping :  It is the process which determine the differences in the genetic structure of an individual's DNA sequence by comparing it with the reference sequence.
2. genome sequencing : It is the symbolic linear depiction of organism's hereditary information.  

Basic Goals of pharmacogenomics 

1. Focus On prevention not on reactions
2. Enhance safety of drugs
3. optimize Drug Therapy
4. Improve compliance of patient
5. Reduce Cost of healthcare

Applications:

1. Pharmacogenomics has applications in various diseases like Cancer,depression,HIV,tuberculosis,asthma,diabetes,cardiovascular disorder,etc
2. in cancer treatment these tests are used to identify which patients give best responce to which treatments.
3. pharmacogenomic tests provide various tools for physicians better management of medicine and there side effects on individual basis.
4. pharmacogenomic is also known as Companion diagnostics means tests are bundled with various drugs.
5. Beside efficacy,pharmacogenetics can help to identify toxicities of drug.

Global Market Of Pharmacogenomics:

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The global bioinformatics market has value at about $2.9 billion in 2012 and will reach to $7.5 billion by 2017 at a CAGR of 20.9%. These technologies are used in various pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors to support their growth. Major sectors which are influenced by this technology are medicine, agriculture, environment, animal, forensic, academics,etc. 

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Major Market Barriers:

1. FDA Approval process for Pharmacogenomics is very slow process
2. Complexity of Technology
3. Need More R&D
4. Development Cost is high 

Conclusion:

Best way to explain importance of Pharmacogenomics is: 

“It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.” -Hippocrates

And speaking about the Pharmacogenomics market,right now the market is in the R&D process but speaking about future it will be a multi billion market.

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Global Display Market By Technology and TYPE

Global Market be made up of :

1.Technology

2.TYPE 

Technologies In Display Market:

1. LED
2. LCD
3. DLP
4. Lcos
5. Plasma
6. E-Paper
7. OLED

• LED: LIGHT EMITTING DIODE 

The most important part of a light emitting diode (LED) is the semi-conductor chip located in the center of the bulb as shown at the right. The chip has two regions separated by a junction. The p region is dominated by positive electric charges, and the n region is dominated by negative electric charges. The junction acts as a barrier to the flow of electrons between the p and the n regions. Only when sufficient voltage is applied to the semi-conductor chip, can the current flow, and the electrons cross the junction into the p region

When a light-emitting diode is switched on, electrons are able to recombine with holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of photons. This effect is called electroluminescence, and the color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photon) is determined by the energy band gap of the semiconductor. An LED is often small in area (less than 1 mm2), and integrated optical components may be used to shape its radiation pattern.

• LCD: Liquid-Crystal display

This screens are Trans missive.Liquid Crystal acts as light shutters.Current LCD benchmark Specifications Are Sizes to 82” prototypes,Resolution is 1920x1080 pixels and power draw and weight is less than the plasma screen of same size.

How IT Functions :

Randomly arranged LCs pass lights are OFF and Aligned LCs block light  are ON.This effect is called “birefringence”.Principle is the same for low-temperature and high-temperature poly silicon LCD's, and liquid crystal on silicon (L Cos) panels.

• Plasma :

Plasma Screens are e missive . Current Plasma benchmark Specifications Are 

Size-103”, Resolution is 1920x1080 pixels and Brightness is greater than 100 nits.Power draw and weight is Greater than the LCD screen of same size .

• DLP:

1. Digital micro mirror device (DMD) used
2. Rapid on-off cycling of mirrors (pulse-width modulation) builds grayscale image
3. Color added and blended:

• With color wheel (single chip)
• With polarizing beam splitter (3-chip)

  4.Lens projects image to screen

• E-paper 

E-paper Technology is the newest technology of Display Industry,That provide you a large display screen which you can fold,roll and adjust by yourself to fit in small spaces when you are not using it.And the Best Part is E-paper screen uses less battery power than the backlight of cell.

There are two technologies are being developed for e-paper

1. Electrochromic Display Technology
2. Organic Light-emitting Diode

• OLED Organic Light-emitting Diode

Organic Light-emitting Diode-Layer of Organic compound that emits light when power is given.It produces very good quality images and capture motion better than LCD's but it’s life span is only 5000 hours .

• Lcos:

1. LCoS is a reflective imaging system
2. Switching transistors are on back-plane
3. Greater imaging surface available – higher fill factor than HTPS LCD
4. Easier to achieve high pixel density in small panels than with HTPS LCD

Image Quality Parameters

1. Pixel-based imaging breaks the link between brightness and resolution
2. Peak brightness levels to 1000 nits in LCD and plasma achieved, > 10,000 lumens in LCoS and DLP projectors
3. Average contrast to 500:1 (LCD, LCoS)
4. Average contrast > 1000:1 (DLP, plasma)

Color and White Balance

1. CRT offers ‘pure’ RGB color blending and clean white balance
2. Plasma color balance affected by gas mixture and UV emissions
3. LCD, LCoS, DLP projectors dependent on light source (short-arc lamps)

• UHP/UHE less expensive, color is tricky
• Xenon more costly, color quality is superior

• TYPES Of Display Market:

1. Conventional
2. Flexible
3. Transparent
4. 3D

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Head Mounted Display Market From 2012 To 2017

Introduction :

Head mounted displays (HMD’s) are display systems which help the end user view texts, maps, images, schematics and other information that can be generated by a computer or any other electronic system. The main advantage of these head mounted displays compared to computer systems are that these are portable displays unlike a computer which cannot be carried from one place to the other.

Head Mounted Display (HMD) or wearable display can be a pair of goggles or a full helmet. In a head mounted display, the output peripheral places a small micro display in front of the eyes of the user for the user to perceive the image that is generated from a computer or any other electronic source. Most HMDs include a head tracker so that the system can respond to head movements. HMDs are available with day and night vision mode. Augmented reality can be incorporated in HMD.

Overview Of Market

According to a new market research report “Head Mounted Display (HMD) Market Global Forecast and Analysis (2012 - 2017) by Products (Helmet Mounted Display, Head Mounted Display/Computing), Components (Micro display, Tracker, Computing, Battery, Accessories,), Applications (Military, Consumer And Non-Consumer) and Geography”, the head mounted displays market, on the whole, is expected to reach $4478 million by 2017 at a CAGR of 60% from 2012 to 2017.

How This Market Grows

Head mounted displays are amongst the most prominent products of the near-to-eye applications that have micro displays installed. The demand for these is on the rise due to the video gaming and augmented reality applications hitting the market in the next couple of years.

The commercial as well as the revamped HMDs used in gaming and entertainment justify the exorbitant marketing that governs the HMD market. In addition, there are certain constructive uses other than recreation for HMDs, including medical head mounted displays for work in telerobotic surgery and psychological treatment of phobias.

Key Factors

The key factors driving the head mounted displays market include

• improved user experience
• connectivity to the content
• video gaming sector
• regulated defense market
• decline in cost of micro displays  
• components and acceptance of QVGA resolution by the consumers.

Past Of Market

On the other side, lack of technical solution and prices for consumer and non-consumer market restrain the market growth of head mounted displays. In terms of revenue generation, as of 2011, Americas held the highest share, i.e. 37.5%, followed by Europe with 34.82%.

Present of Market

Currently, head mounted displays are used in military and defense, gaming, medical, healthcare, firefighting, and sports. Automotive prototyping, digital printing, and data storage are a few opportunities expected to open new horizons for the development of this market. Overall, North America and Europe are the major contributors in the head mounted displays application market, but a paradigm shift is expected in the next five years when countries such as Japan, China, and South Korea will have a major chunk in the market share of virtual reality/head mounted displays market.

Future Of Market

Amongst the various end-user applications under the head mounted displays, the classification was done on the basis of consumer and non-consumer applications. Amongst the consumer applications, video gaming is expected to grow at a faster CAGR of 151.7% with an estimated market size of $662 million in 2017. In the non-consumer market (encapsulating training and simulation, industrial, healthcare, firefighting and sports), sports is expected to increase with the highest CAGR of 96% followed by healthcare and firefighting growing with CAGR’s of 95%.

The global head mounted displays market is expected to grow from $336 million in 2011 to $4478 million in 2017 at a CAGR of 60% from 2012 to 2017. Asia-Pacific region is observed to grow at the highest rate. This is primarily due to the growth of technology and setting up of the manufacturing units of the major players in this region owing to the skilled labor force and low cost of maintaining them.

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