An ideal care management solution addresses all the problems faced in five critical parts of the healthcare system i.e. data integration, patient stratification and intake, patient engagement, care coordination, and performance measurement. These solutions are observing a significant rise in the demand from the current market perspective.  There is a swelling pressure on healthcare providers to cut the overall costs and improve patient care. The challenges in the digital transformation of the healthcare industry can be envisaged considering the process of version control when it comes to managing millions of non-uniform electronic patient records, integrating with social and healthcare information, personal data privacy, drug theft, and counterfeiting and developing infrastructure to connect countless trusts, hospitals, surgeries, and clinics. Care management, when done at its best, tends to reduce the cost and increase the quality of care for those individuals identified in the program. While Medicare data suggests that only 5% of a healthcare organization’s population consumes 50% of its resources, health systems must look beyond that 5% and also use a strategy that may allow them to identify and work with the people they may impact the most.

3D mapping and modeling technologies are one of the fastest ways to build 3D environments in the highly demanding market. 3D mapping solutions quickly creates 3D maps of the surroundings, with utmost clarity and accuracy, ready to plug into professional visualization operations. 3D modeling is used to develop a 3D surface of an object, that can be displayed via a specialized software, which can then be displayed through computer simulation. This data is used as data points to create a finished end product, which can be used across various industries. Few industries that are significantly making use o f these data points are the a utomo tive a nd pub lic infrastructure end users. This can be integrated with the building and construction end user to be used for modeling smart cities and legacy cities, 3D site design, terrain modeling, and a model-based infrastructure planning and management.

Wearable technology is an emerging trend that integrates electronics to the daily activities and fits into the changing lifestyles and can be worn on any part of the body. The ability to connect to the Internet, and enabling data exchange between a network and a device, is the driving factor that leads to the trend of wearable technology. Wearables imply wristbands that are launched by companies, like Fitbit, Jawbone, and Apple, and act as activity trackers, which have gained significant traction, owing to the boom in the fitness trend across consumers. The number of wristbands/fitness trackers by Fitbit that monitor heart rate and physical activity increased from 58,000 in 2010 to 22.295 million in 2016. After 2016, various other companies expanded their market reach by introducing new products, and Fitbit's reported number of devices sold in 2018 stood at 13.939 million. The decreased y-o-y sales were attributed to the increased share of other fitness tracker providers. The smartwatch category is also experiencing a rise, owing to the additional features, like the brand that suits the everyday lifestyle. Strong brands, such as Apple and Fossil, are keeping the pricing consistent with the price bands of traditional watches, to maintain their revenues. With Google’s WearOS, many other premium watchmakers, such as TAG and Armani, have entered the segment.

The Asia-Pacific construction sector is the largest in the world and is increasing at a healthy rate, owing to the rising population, increase in middle-class income, and urbanization. As per the statistics of the Nation Bureau of Statistics of China, the revenues of the construction sector registered a CAGR of ~3.75% between 2013-2018 and was valued at ~CNY 40,000 million in 2018. In 2019, the country’s construction industry is expected to rise by almost ~6%. Real estate investment, which includes investments in the residential and commercial sector and office spaces, rose by ~11.6% in January-February in 2019, compared to the same period in the previous year. The robust investment in the property sector was supported by steady housing prices and an increase in property construction. However, the fallout from the trade feud with China has led to increased volatility in the financial markets and caused businesses to turn more cautious. Manufacturing activity has pulled back considerably, and it is likely to either stall or contract during the first part of the year. Forecast for economic growth has scaled back as businesses have turned more cautious. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the largest and one of the fastest-growing markets. With annual population growth at about ~4 million, construction may remain a key economic enabler.

Telecom order management serves as a critical process for telecom providers, as it entails dozens of sub- processes and often involves multiple departments, systems, and partner organizations, making it operationally complex. However, numerous benefits offered by telecom order management solutions, such as allowing customers to capture and process different services, modify existing orders, process customer moves, and provide price quotation to the customers, eliminates the complexities associated with telecom order process, and propels the growth of the market. The key purpose of telecom order management solution is to verify and process the telecom order based on its product catalog and service catalog. Rise in demand for network installations across rural areas and rapid increase in connectivity devices & subscribers are the major factors that drive the growth of the global telecom order management market. Furthermore, integration of advance technology such AI, machine learning, and Big Data and lack of standardization & compatibility issues with the existing systems are anticipated to provide lucrative opportunity for market expansion.

Currently, the growth of the market studied is attributed to the increasing awareness about the potential benefits of targeted alpha therapy. In the efforts of making healthcare system better, the government, along with some companies, is spreading awareness about the treatment options for cancer, such as radiotherapy. The market studied is also growing due to the increasing incidences of cardiac and cancer ailments. The rise in prevalence of cardiac and cancer ailments is increasing the demand for alpha emitters. In addition to that, the ongoing research for the treatment of various cancer types is contributing to the market growth. Presently, there are certain factors that are hindering the growth of the market studied, and those factors include shorter half-life of radiopharmaceuticals, stringent regulatory framework, and the need for high capital investment.

An air brake or a compressed air brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the vehicle. Air brakes are used in large heavy vehicles, particularly those having multiple trailers, which must be linked into the brake system, such as trucks, buses, trailers, and semi-trailers, in addition to their use in railroad trains. George Westinghouse first developed air brakes for use in railway service. Air brake systems are typically used on heavy trucks and buses. The air brake system has a wider application in service brakes, parking brakes, and includes wider range of components such as control pedal, an air storage tank, and various other components. The air brake system is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston to put pressure in the brake to stop a vehicle. It comprises several components including compressor, governor, tank, air dryer, foot valve, brake chamber, and slack adjuster. Currently, there are two types of air brake system commonly available in the market, namely, disc air brake system and drum air brake system. The air brake system is integrated in heavy as well as commercial vehicles to apply more massive brake effort. The increased demand for air brakes has positively impacted the air brake system market.

The installed capacity of thermal power plants in China was 1,144 GW at end-2018, representing 60.2% of the country’s total capacity, having increased by 3% y/y. Both the share in total capacity and the y/y growth rate have been slowing down in recent years, in line with the country’s decarbonisation strategy and targets. In terms of investment in the Chinese electricity sector, the thermal sources recorded an 8.3% y/y decline in investment to RMB 78.6bn in 2018, from RMB 85.8bn in 2017. The ongoing replacement of thermal power by renewable energy in China can be gauged by the fact that in 2018, out of a total 128 GW newly added installed capacity in China’s electricity sector, 73% went to renewable energy capacity. The thermal electricity in China is almost entirely generated by coal-fired power plants.

China’s chemical fertiliser sector is highly competitive as a whole, due to severe overcapacity in some subsectors such as urea, phosphate fertilisers and potassium sulphur manufacturing. The key competition elements include independent innovation ability and high efficiency and safety. In the last few years, the Chinese government has encouraged domestic companies to invest abroad in order to gain expanded access to foreign markets via an international sales network.

China’s cement industry is characterised by relatively low concentration and severe overcapacity. In 2018, China had about 3,500 cement enterprises. However, restrictions on adding new cement capacity have recently pushed cement manufacturers to expand their production through M&As. The economic imbalance between the coastal and inland parts of China is the reason for the unequal performance of cement producers from different regions. Most of them are located in the regions of the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and Southwest China.