Welcome to our new recurring blog series, where we'll bring you up to speed on the latest industry analysis and market research blogs from the past week. 

Take a look at recent articles from MarketResearch.com and our publishing divisions, plus a few top picks from other relevant websites and forums. 

Asia is one of the leading destinations for health tourism. Countries such as India, China, Malaysia, and Thailand are witnessing large numbers of medical tourists due to cheaper treatment costs and high-quality healthcare services. In 2016, Indians and Chinese spent around $68 and $431 per head respectively on medical treatment while Americans spent at least 19 times more. This is one of the key themes explored in The Business Research Company’s recent Healthcare Market Global Report 2017.

The construction equipment industry is a classic cyclical market, with pronounced ups and downs and the potential for significant year-to-year swings in demand. But even this pattern has been disrupted over the last eight years or so as the industry has struggled to come to terms with the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis.

As one of the world’s leading publishers of business intelligence, IBISWorld provides up-to-date market information on a wide variety of industries and business sectors.

IBISWorld currently has 8,189 reports available on MarketResearch.com. Here’s a quick look at some notable industry reports and their key findings.

“How is my brand perceived relative to competitors?”

“What perceptions of my brand most drive behavior?”

“How do I positively impact perceptions of and behavior toward my brand?”

These are common, vital questions raised by marketers and brand managers. Measuring a brand’s “health” – how consumers perceive and interact with the brand, and how perceptions and behaviors align with revenue – is a common objective in market research, but is often not achieved because not all elements of brand health are measured.   

Last month, MarketResearch.com's publishing divisions were cited in a number of high-profile publications including The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes, among many others.

Read on to learn about the newsy insights, quotes, and data covered by the press. To access additional information about a particular subject, click the link to the related report page.

The subscription economy is one of several alternative business models gaining traction across sectors and is explored in a recent report, Engage, Return, and Repeat: The Subscription Economy, by Euromonitor International.

The subscription model has wrought major changes across many industries — from Dollar Shave Club’s disruption of the razor market, to Birchbox’s explosion into cosmetics, and the impact of companies like Zipcar selling mobility rather than the car itself. Many businesses are asking themselves how they can tap into the subscription model, but should they is another important question.

Forbes recently published an article written by Ken Long, a Senior Industry Analyst at The Freedonia Group, a division of MarketResearch.com. The article highlights seven key facts you need to know before investing in drone technology.

Read the article to learn:

• Forecasts of U.S. drone sales to 2020
• Which markets are poised to explode and which will climb at moderate rates
• Where you can find possible investment opportunities

MarketResearch.com has introduced an updated version of our popular Knowledge Center, a one-stop platform that unifies our publishing content and revolutionizes the way clients access and use market research.

Through the Knowledge Center, clients not only have access to an entire library of authoritative research from leading publishers such as the Freedonia Group, Packaged Facts, Kalorama Information, and Simba Information, but they also benefit from new interactive features that help them work more quickly and accurately.

Clinical laboratories are a critical component of health care. Approximately 80% of physicians’ diagnoses are a result of laboratory tests, according to Kalorama Information, a healthcare market research firm.

Common routine tests include cholesterol level tests, HIV tests, pap tests, pregnancy tests, and substance abuse tests. Clinical lab testing is also used to monitor diseases and drug treatments. Specialty testing, which is often more costly, may include genetics, immunology, oncology, endocrinology, and other segments.