Dublin, Nov. 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kbb373/hospital_asset)
has announced the addition of the "Global
Hospital Pharmaceutical Asset Management Market to 2017" report
to their offering.
The global asset management is categorized on the basis of
verticals such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals. hospital asset
management is further segmented based on products such as RFID,
RTLS and ultrasound and infrared tags. Pharmaceutical asset
management is further segmented into RFID products. The various
application areas of the market are equipment management, patient
management, staff management and temperature & humidity
control. Asset management in pharmaceutical vertical offers
application such as drug counterfeiting and supply chain. The
market is major driven by the factors such as increasing concern
for patient safety, return on investment and cost savings by
investors, decreasing cost of hardware and software, technological
advancements and increasing use in pharmaceutical industry.
RFID in healthcare is the leading segment in the global hospital
asset management market in 2012.RFID is proved to have a strong
growth potential due to the increased applications in healthcare
led by technological advancements; for instance, till 2004, RFID
was mainly used in error prevention of drugs, locating patients and
assets. Between 2005 and 2010 this technology wasimplemented for
additional benefits such as theft prevention, cost control, drug
trial compliance and drug anti-counterfeiting. In the recent years,
the technology has penetrated into several healthcare applications
such as locating staff and visitor alarm, speedy and accurate
location of assets, and tracking and tracing of consumable
medicines.
RTLS in healthcare is growing at the highest CAGR in the next five
years. In recent years, both, the declining cost of hardware, along
with rising applications in healthcare industry are boosting the
adoption of RTLS. The role of active RFID (radio frequency
identification) is prominent and is growing at a fast pace in
healthcare sector.
RFID tags both in healthcare and pharmaceuticals will prove to play
a prominent role with a double digit growth rate from 2012 to 2017.
Passive RFID tags in healthcare and pharmaceuticals gained the
largest share of around 90%. Though the passive RFID tags market is
the leading one, active tags market is expected to grow at a faster
pace. The active tags market is predominantly driven due to rising
applications and demand for efficient workflow.
Though the asset management market in pharmaceutical
industry is in its infant stage, it proves to be promising due
to the rising incidence of drug counterfeiting and rising concerns
of supply chain issues. Many investors across the world are
implementing the RFID technology as organizations such as FDA and
WHO suggested the use of RFID in enhancing the quality of supply
chain in order to eliminate the fake drugs.
Applications
- Equipment management
- Patient management
- Staff management
- Temperature and Humidity monitoring
Products
- RFID
- RTLS (Real Time Location Systems)
- Ultrasound and Infrared tags (Value and Volume)
Products - RFID in pharmaceuticals
- Hardware
- Tags (Value and Volume)
- Readers
- Antenna
- Software
Applications
- Drug Counterfeiting
- Supply chain
Key Topics Covered:
1 Introduction
2 Executive Summary
3 Market Overview
4 Hospital Asset Management Market, By Products
5 Hospital Asset Management Applications Market
6 Geographic Analysis
7 Competitive Landscape
8 Company Profiles
- Aeroscout, Inc
- Awarepoint Corporation
- Ekahau
- Elpas (Visonic Technologies Ltd) A Tyco International Company
- GE Healthcare
- IBM Corporation
- Infor, Inc
- Motorola Solutions, Inc
- Radianse
- Siemens Healthcare
- Sonitor Technologies
- Thingmagic (Trimble Navigation Ltd)
- Versus Technology, Inc
- Vizbee RFID Systems Ltd
- Zebra Technologies Corporation
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