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Report Buyer has just added a new report which forecasts that the global market for telemedicine will increase to over $13.9 billion by 2012.

What is telemedicine? Telemedicine technology is expected to become part of the mainstream soon because it reduces costs and improves clinical outcomes.

Reading the Telemedicine: Medical and Electronic Providers report should answer all your questions and this report is available from Report Buyer.

Press Release:

Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report which forecasts that the global market for telemedicine will increase to over $13.9 billion by 2012, showing a compound average annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19%.

“Telemedicine: Opportunities for Medical and Electronic Providers”, which is available at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/BCC00185 finds that telemedicine is more than a buzzword in the healthcare industry today. Healthcare players are evaluating telemedicine technology as it is expected to be part of the mainstream as telemedicine reduces costs and improves clinical outcomes.

The telemedicine market is broken down into two segments- telehospital/clinic and telehome. Of these, says the report, the telehospital segment has the largest share of the market, worth an estimated $4.4 billion in 2007. Its value is expected to reach $8.8 billion by 2012,with a CAGR of 14.7%. The telehome market, which currently accounts for 22% of the market, is expected to capture almost 37% of the telemedicine market by 2012 and be worth $5.1 billion, up from an estimated $1.4 billion in 2007.

In addition, authors of the report say that the telemedicine market is also divided into technology and service segments. The telemedicine technology market consisting of hardware, software, telecom and network, is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2007
to $5,610 million in 2012, with a CAGR of 24.8%.

Analysts say that the telemedicine service market is expected to grow from $3.6 billion in 2007 to $8.3 billion in 2012, and will be mainly driven by the telehospital service market. The telehospital market will be the largest market for both the technology and service segments. The service market will grow from $3.6 billion in 2007 to $8.3 billion in 2012 at a CAGR of 18.3%.

“Telemedicine: Opportunities for Medical and Electronic Providers” is available from Report Buyer.

For more information go to: http://www.reportbuyer.com/pharma_healthcare/ehealth/telemedicine_opportunities_medical_electronic_providers.html

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The idea of facing a storm at sea is a pretty scary thing. Look at this storm as it appears from the position of this ship! Absolutely frightening!

Summer means very full schedules with lots and lots of activity. For us it means baseball, swimming, lots of yardwork, bike rides, camping, hiking, rock climbing. You name it and my kids are either really good at it or would like to be. They want to do it all.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just released a large report containing its plans to build a mega bio-defense lab for scientists to study the Earth’s deadliest diseases. It seems it will be a real-life version of The Andromeda Strain.

Amazing? Exciting?

There is one small problem…leaks from the lab are expected to happen according to the report.

The department has also assessed the possibility of a terrorist attack resulting in the release of pathogens from the lab. This would involve the most infectious animal disease (Foot and Mouth) and those most deadly to humans (Hendra and Nipah viruses).

The overall risk assessment for a release at the five mainland sites was “moderate” because of “the potential easy spread of a disease through livestock or wildlife” nearby, according to a statement.

Plans are for the new lab to be built in 2010 and it will replace an existing bio-defense lab on Long Island. That lab is called the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and is considered outdated and no longer useful.

DHS wants its researchers to study “zoonotic diseases.” These are diseases that travel from animals to people (”bird flu”?). To do that they need a facility rated “bio-security level 4,” (the highest level). Plum Island is a level 3. Approximately ten percent of the new facility will be at level 4.

DHS is currently considering five possible sites in the mainland United States.