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The Business of Food as Medicine

Posted by: Bob Jones on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Related to: Healthcare Trends, Nutrition & Wellness

For a very long time, many in the food industry defined their market target as, “Everyone who needs to eat.” And Health & Wellness was viewed as a collection of unappealing niche markets.

But no longer. Consider just two items:

  • PepsiCo has frequently asserted that they will grow the revenues of their Global Nutrition Group from $10 Billion (2010) to $30 Billion by 2020
  • Nestle recently spent roughly $1 Billion to buy Prometheus Therapeutics and Diagnostics, a company that specializes in treatments and tests for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chron’s disease and cancer
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More InVitro Diagnostics Acquisitions Ahead: Non-traditional Companies are Entering the IVD Business

Posted by: Michael Jacobson on February 22, 2012 | No Comments »
Related to: Healthcare Trends, In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices

A large non-healthcare company will acquire an IVD company this year. This prediction is like forecasting that there will be a large winter storm on the East Coast this winter: quite possibly wrong, but still very plausible. So what’s interesting here? The fact that we would not have made this same prediction only a few years ago.

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“Big Data” will begin improving the bottom line of healthcare players

Posted by: Rick Lifsitz on February 6, 2012 | No Comments »
Related to: Healthcare Trends, In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices

Across the healthcare continuum “Big Data” is demonstrating its value to the bottom line of providers, payors, therapeutic and diagnostic providers and consumers. This trend will accelerate as more companies come forward with commercial solutions. Simply put, “Big Data” refers to anything involving the analysis of extremely large datasets. 2012 will be the year where the industry begins to see the benefits of “Big Data” on their bottom line, with the full-scale deployment of platforms from companies like IBM, EMC, Oracle, Humedica, SeeChange Health, Castlight Health, among others.

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