$23.88B 2 of the Top 10 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 are healthcare companies Deloitte has ranked its 2017 North America
Technology Fast 500, and found that two healthcare
companies, Aratana Therapeutics and Theravance
Biopharma US, make the Top 10, Aratana at a 31.24%
growth last year, and Theravance at 21.426%. Seven
others in the Top 10 were software companies, and
one was in communications.
Source: Deloitte, “2017 North America Technology
Fast 500.”
Projected size of genomics market by 2022
Markets and Markets anticipates that the genomics
industry will grow from $14.71B in 2017 to $23.88B in 2022,
at a CAGR of 10.2%. This will be driven by R&D activity,
demand for personalized medicine, and shrinking costs of
sequencing services.
Source: Markets and Markets, “Genomics Market by Product
and Services (Instruments/Systems, Consumables, Services),
Technology (Sequencing, Microarray, PCR), Process (Library
Preparation, Sequencing, Data Analysis), Application
(Diagnostics)—Forecast to 2022”
Number of millennials who have health insurance
The number of millennials who now have healthcare coverage tops
86%, with 85% saying it is absolutely essential or very important.
This is greater than the number with home internet access (74%) or a
mobile phone data plan (66%). Most get coverage through the access
provided by the ACA.
Source: Benenson Strategy Group, “Millennials Sound Off on Healthcare”
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