Healthcare Industry
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A Healthcare Industry is an economic industry that focuses on healthcare tasks.
- Context:
- It can (typically) involve Healthcare Sub-Instries, such as a Pharmaceutical Industry.
- It can (typically) be a National Healthcare Industry, such as U.S. Healthcare Industry, Japanese Healthcare Industry.
- It can (typically) include Healthcare Companies, such as healthcare technology companies
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- See: Palliative Care, Curative Care, Preventive Medicine, Physical Therapy, Life Science Industry.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/healthcare_industry Retrieved:2021-2-22.
- The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health. The modern healthcare industry includes three essential branches which are services, products, and finance and may be divided into many sectors and categories and depends on the interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet health needs of individuals and populations.[1]
The healthcare industry is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries. Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country's economy.
- The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health. The modern healthcare industry includes three essential branches which are services, products, and finance and may be divided into many sectors and categories and depends on the interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet health needs of individuals and populations.[1]
2020
- https://www.healthcatalyst.com/insights/7-life-sciences-trends-transforming-industry
- QUOTE: ... these pandemic-fueled transformations ignited seven positive trends within life sciences that will impact the healthcare industry, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology providers, and health systems:
- . Building partnerships.
- . Accelerating digitization.
- . Shortening vaccine development timeline.
- . Expanding the use of real-world data.
- . Scaling cloud platforms and securing data.
- . Improving supply chain.
- . Focusing on health equity.
- QUOTE: ... these pandemic-fueled transformations ignited seven positive trends within life sciences that will impact the healthcare industry, pharmaceutical companies, medical technology providers, and health systems: