New analysis from Frost & Sullivan showed that the home healthcare and disease management for the remote health monitoring market is estimated to reach $294.9 million in 2015.

With an estimated 600,000 citizens turning 65 or older by 2020, Singapore is now ramping up aged care services. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said the government is ready to work with various sectors to study how IT can be maximised as an enabler for better integrated care.

What are the drivers affecting buy and build strategies? What elements must be considered if a hospital is to grow and maintain its own applications, purchase an off-the-shelf product, or work with a team to build a product?

An eight-country survey of more than 3,700 doctors conducted by Accenture has shown that doctors agree on the top healthcare benefits of IT.

A new platform for connecting wireless medical devices to cloud-based data centers for easy retrieval, storage or transferring of biometric information is gaining attention from mobile device manufacturers and healthcare organizations.

Big Data is, and will continue to be, a major problem for healthcare providers. One estimate has healthcare Big Data sized at 150 exabytes and growing at a phenomenal rate of 1.2 exabytes per year. The possibilities of tapping into that information are endless.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, a leading center for treating sick children in the UK, raised efficiency and cut costs for a range of medical, clinical, and administrative applications with new storage solutions.

The global healthcare BPO market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.4 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to market research and consulting company Markets and Markets.

Healthcare waste management is gaining importance in India with many hospitals starting to study approaches to proper waste management, according to Frost & Sullivan.

The mobile health (mHealth) applications market is helping transform the healthcare IT environment and is poised to see substantial growth through 2015.