Healthcare Professionals Articles

Home Monitoring Driving Up World Telehealth Market with UK Leading the Way

A recent report published by InMedica on the World Telehealth market indicates that the world market looks set to exceed $1 billion by 2016 and could jump to as much as $6 billion in 2020.

Posted 7 January 2012

Why Do Patients Not Fill Prescriptions?

The cost to the NHS of people not taking their medicines properly and not getting the full benefits to their health is estimated at more than £500 million a year.

Posted 7 January 2012

Drugs Sales Growth Expected to Slow

Worldwide spending on prescription drugs will slow in the next five years but will still surpass $1 trillion by 2014, according to pharmaceutical market research firm IMS Health.
Spending will rise 3 percent to 6 percent per year through 2015, with much of the growth coming in China, Brazil, Russia and India. By 2015, almost half of all pharmaceutical spending will go to low-cost generic drugs instead of costlier brand-name medications - which were once responsible for an overwhelming majority of drug costs. That's because the patents on many top-sellers will expire in the next few years.

Posted 27 May 2011

Is Mobile Phone-Based Remote Monitoring for Heart Failure Patients Effective?

Heart failure patients are confident in their ability to use a mobile phone-based remote monitoring system. This is a result of the increased use of mobile phones in all sections of society including the older population. Certain barriers to use were mentioned by both patients and clinicians.

Posted 26 February 2011

Can Biomarkers Aid in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease?

Alzheimer's is a progressive disease, where symptoms gradually get worse over a number of years. In its early stages, memory loss is mild, but with late-stage Alzheimer's, individuals lose the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to their environment.

Posted 26 November 2010

Access to Doctors - Is It Changing?

You would imagine that traditional sales rep access to doctors has changed over the past few years. Doctors are highly engaged users of the internet and mobile devices and as such, access to them using traditional methods must have changed?

Posted 26 November 2010