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Changing Demographics
We see inequality in healthcare
The quality of healthcare is inconsistent, with variations in treatment outcomes both between and within countries and among providers. Additionally, there are unmet patient needs due to a lack of appropriate therapeutic and diagnostic solutions, and healthcare costs are rising along with increasing, inefficient expenditure.
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What are the challenges?
Variable quality of care
Large variance in cancer survival rates globally, e.g. ~8x variance for stomach cancer
Unmet patient needs
¼ of all deaths are premature and more than 95% of rare disease patients lack an FDA-approved treatment
Rising healthcare costs
Costs are growing at 1–2 p.p. above GDP - 30%+ of expenditure is estimated to be waste in advanced healthcare systems
What are the solutions?
Improve disease identification, prevention and treatment
- Mass Spec tools and services
- Detection (NGS, PCR, Microarray)
- Sequencing and 3D analysis of protein structures
- Proteomics
- Genomics
- Metabolomics
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