IT Vendors And Healthcare Providers Should Avoid Becoming Over-Reliant On Genetic Profiling.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61709) has announced the addition of "Wireless Based Disease Management" to their offering. Research into existing and emerging technologies that can be used to support remote disease management, modelling and monitoring services The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. . - Profiles of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Google, Microsoft, Voxiva, Tplus Medical and Cerner. - Also mentioned in this report, Oracle, 23andme, Siemens, Medstory and HealthLink. - The role of disease and epidemic monitoring within the new ehealth model. - Search engines as a platform for disease management. - Genomics and disease management. - Privacy and disease monitoring. - Opportunities and threats for healthcare providers and IT Vendors. - Relative merit of centralised Adj. 1. centralised - drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; "centralized control of emergency relief efforts"; "centralized government" centralized and de-centralised deployment models. - Relative merit of opt-in and opt-out use models. A diverse range of IT vendors will compete for a share of the disease monitoring and management market. Many will be pitching their middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a solutions against those of rivals, with both IBM's WebSphere and Oracle's Healthcare Transaction Base being offered as means of transporting See: mode of transport. data between wireless devices - used to collect vital signs from patients - and the intelligent applications that model and monitor epidemics and diseases. This middleware will also provide support and disease management to patients. However, Internet search companies such as Google, which already recognises that a large number of its users are searching for information to help them diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. a particular condition, are also well placed to build a disease monitoring and management service. IBM will use centralised supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very based applications, hosted by international disease control centres, as a means of gaining a pivotal role in the global healthcare market. Meanwhile Google is already forging links with companies developing wireless based disease monitoring and genetic testing Genetic Testing Definition A genetic test examines the genetic information contained inside a person's cells, called DNA, to determine if that person has or will develop a certain disease or could pass a disease to his or her offspring. services. These are not the only two IT vendors who recognise that disease monitoring and epidemiology epidemiology, field of medicine concerned with the study of epidemics, outbreaks of disease that affect large numbers of people. Epidemiologists, using sophisticated statistical analyses, field investigations, and complex laboratory techniques, investigate the cause , backed by advances in genetics, will become an increasingly important component within an integrated healthcare system. However, IT vendors and healthcare providers should avoid becoming over-reliant on genetic profiling Noun 1. genetic profiling - the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification genetic fingerprinting , as the current face-to-face consultation with a GP can often identify diseases that have a wide range of causes - including some that are psychosomatic psychosomatic /psy·cho·so·mat·ic/ (-sah-mat´ik) pertaining to the mind-body relationship; having bodily symptoms of psychic, emotional, or mental origin. psy·cho·so·mat·ic adj. 1. . If GP consultations are automated and the number of patients turning to online services for a diagnosis increases, there will be a growing demand for intelligent technology that can identify psychosomatic diseases. This technology could be an extension of the intelligent software currently used, in beta form, to profile Internet search users. Privacy will be an important consideration, with users either opting out of the large disease monitoring systems put in place by healthcare providers or being unwilling to opt into smaller-scale online systems. Nevertheless, if computer assisted disease management is marketed correctly, patients will be willing to trade a degree of privacy for a timely diagnosis - and support if they are found to have a disease. This report examines a range of epidemic and disease monitoring and modelling technologies and identifies key trends in this market. It also considers the relative merits of the centralised 'top down' and distributed 'bottom up' deployment models and the opportunities each route to market creates for wireless device and medical software vendors. Who should purchase this report:- - Medical device vendors. - Wireless technology vendors. - eHealth and healthcare providers. - Decision makers in the public healthcare sector. - Epidemiologists. - Biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. . - Investors in the healthcare IT sector. - Mobile operators. - Other organisations active in ehealth provision. Companies Mentioned: - IBM - Microsoft - Voxiva - Tplus Medical - Cerner. - Oracle - 23andme - Siemens - Medstory - HealthLink For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61709 |
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