Healthcare Matters

Have a lovely weekend, all!

Markets are emerging!

For U.S. pharmaceutical industry, emerging markets represent a growing share of sales

China, India, Brazil, Russia are among 16 emerging markets that will make up almost one-third of global drug spending within four years, as newly wealthy people and nations spend more on health care, a report shows. Rising spending in emerging pharmaceutical markets will lead the industry’s global sales growth by 2016, according to a report released yesterday by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a Parsippany-based research arm of drug sales analysis company IMS Health Inc. As emerging markets grow, European government budget cuts and drugs losing U.S. patent protection will lessen the buying power of those regions…

MoooeeeewwwW. Some numbers to be aware of…

What’s in Your Beef? A Lot of Antibiotics, Says Food Industry Survey

Last week, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production. The goal of the survey was to evaluate their level of transparency about antibiotic use and to reveal to consumers the extent to which antibiotics are used in their food…

Healthcare reform to “represent one of the biggest private equity opportunities in China?”

Private Money Pours Into China’s Healthcare, Boosting Fortune For Ciming Health Checkup Founders

Private money is pouring into China’s healthcare industry at an impressive clip. The number of private hospitals in the country has increased 20.6% year-on-year to 8,947 as of May 2012, according to statistics released this week by China’s Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, the number of public hospitals has decreased 2.8% to 13,441…

Spend Matters

Friday Rant: What are the Benefits of a True Single End-To-End Platform or Suite?

I had a colleague pose this question earlier this week: what are the definitive benefits of a true single end-to-end platform/suite built on a common data model (one that is a platform in the true sense of the term, allowing for third-party development through open APIs and possibly even a defined configuration/development environment to enable third-parties to create their own applications on top of it)? Do you even need developers, or will technical business analysts do? Even though we’ve tackled this subject before, I thought it would make sense to list out all the benefits of end-to-end platforms.

Spend Matters UK/Europe

Exclusive! Procurement Jobs to be advertised – your Ministry of Defence needs YOU!

We haven’t seen many senior UK public sector procurement roles advertised since the election in 2010 as the focus has generally been on reduction in staff numbers. But we’re about to see that change, with recruitment to fill some very senior procurement roles in the Ministry of Defence. The Sunday Times is likely to be the first vehicle for the advertising this weekend.