According to article in HealthCareITNews, Medical automation market is expected to grow to $23.2B by 2014.
The market for medical automation technology is forecast to grow from $13.1 billion this year to $23.2 billion in 2014, according to BCC Research. The report, Medical Automation Technologies, Products and Markets, pegs the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) at 12.2 percent.
Among the technologies examined in the report are:
* Automated health assessment and monitoring technologies;
* Automated medical imaging and image analysis;
* Automated prescription fulfillment devices;
* Automated therapeutic (non-surgical) devices;
* Robotic and computer-assisted surgical equipment;
* Automated laboratory testing and analysis;
* Automated healthcare logistics, resource and patient tracking;
* Automated medical training.
Major end-user segments for automated medical technologies include hospitals, stand-alone outpatient surgical centers, physician practices, pharmacies and other retail establishments, home-care recipients, the military, medical research institutes and clinical laboratories and medical schools and other training programs.
Another reason for Android developers start developing automated health assessment and monitoring technologies or automated healthcare logistics, resource and patient tracking applications or any of the above technologies , if they haven’t already.
