This week, a healthsprocket list was posted that displayed the top five trends in healthcare from last year (Kalorama Information). The healthsprocket list was derived from the Drug Store News website and was shown online a few days ago. According to Kalorama information, there is a growing demand for telemedicine and and biopharmaceutical medications based on last year. They are interesting and significant due to events that certain companies would have to adjust to.

Brazil, Russia, India and China demonstrated that economic growth was quicker than the United States markets but not as fast as in previous years. There is high interest in the healthcare industry in using lower cost, smaller size and fast DNA sequencing for better understanding of disease and specific abnormalities such as enhancing the study of tumors. For better outcomes and more efficient care. Remote patient monitoring systems inside hospitals or connecting health care workers to patients at home continue to demonstrate revenue growth and customer demand. The need to produce new biopharmaceutical drugs is driving the market for the companies that will handle the production and for the equipment used in the process. Several large device mergers were concluded or announced in last year, such as Medtronic and Covidien.