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Top 8 Predictions That Will Disrupt Healthcare in 2020
Every year, our team of futurists, analysts, and consultants at Frost & Sullivan’s Transformational Healthcare Group comes together to brainstorm and predict the themes, technologies, and global forces that will define the next 12 to 18 months for the …
Is Healthcare Technology Pink? Investments in Femtech to cross the 1.3 billion mark in 2020
Are we breaking a new path for womens tech products or going down the same road?
Menopause Unveils Itself As The Next Big Opportunity In Femtech
By 2025, there will be over 1 billion women experiencing menopause in the world, which will be 12% of the entire world population of 8 billion. Vasomotor Symptoms (VMS), including hot flashes and night sweats, are experienced by approximately 75% of th…
Direct-to-consumer Drug Ads: Are They Doing More Harm than Good?
Remember the last time you turned on your television to watch a football game or catch up on the latest episode of American Idol? You saw ads for beer, the latest iPad, and all kinds of prescription drugs aiming to cure everything from psoriasis to can…
Can You Afford Sleep? These Companies Are Waking Up with a Strategy!
Frost & Sullivan celebrates #WorldSleepDay to raise awareness of sleep as a necessity that is often compromised by the habits of modern life and shares the most impactful insights. When 1Bn suffer from some form of sleep disorder, it should keep the he…
Femtech Fights Gender Equality: How Do Social Determinants of Health Impact Women?
Every year,Frost & Sullivan celebrates International Women’s Day to recognize women’s achievements and tenaciously challenge bias.This year I decided to review the status of some of the mandates that were established by the WHO in 2002 when it recogniz…
Top Five Digital Health Technologies in 2019
For 2019, we asked companies around the world one basic question: “Please indicate the key technology which you believe will have the most profound impact on the healthcare industry during 2019?” The results are not very surprising:
Top 8 Healthcare Predictions for 2019
We have been writing the predictions for healthcare for the past 10 yrs.We also review back how we did each year and each year we are getting to be more accurate.The 2018 predictions that were released in Dec.2017 were almost 98% accurate and each one …
The Future of Aging: Bringing Hollywood to the Hospital
Human beings are in need of such innovations today more than ever before. The world is rapidly aging. In 2015 the number of people aged 65 and above stood -at an estimated 617 million—making up 8.5% of the global population—and this number is set to gr…
China and Israel Are Ready to Battle: Who Leads the Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence Market?
In October 2017, China’s State Council laid out a plan to develop a domestic artificial intelligence (AI) industry worth $150 billion by 2030, with the aim of becoming a global leader in AI technologies. President Xi Jinping called upon Chinese compani…
