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• Canada's Government-run cannabis outlets will open in 2018 with a specific aim of reducing access and harm to children.
• In the next five years the fight against financial crime will shift towards more real-time detection and prevention rather than a reactive investigative approach.
• Uganda could be the first African country to regulate digital currencies.
• UNODC have focused on the prevention and law enforcement response to the money laundering risks posed by VCs.
• A new global, professional culture will influence the world's criminal justice systems in the decades to come.
• A 2017 report found the U.S. could save $7 billion in health spending annually by broadly deploying digital health apps for high-cost patient populations such as those with diabetes, asthma and cardiac rehabilitation.
• Rehabilitation robot market size at $641 million in 2018 is expected grow dramatically to reach $6.4 billion by 2025.
• Worldwide Rehabilitation Robot markets are expected to achieve significant growth as robots replace much of the human work in physical therapy.
• The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority will spend P140 million for the construction and rehabilitation of several infrastructures in Metro Manila next year.
• IQVIA estimated that, only just five disease areas (diabetes prevention, diabetes, asthma, cardiac rehabilitation and pulmonary rehabilitation), the US healthcare system could save $7 billion a year - which is around 1.4% of total costs in those patient populations.
• The exoskeleton market for powered exoskeletons is expected to grow at a higher CAGR between 2017 and 2023.
• Exoskeleton Market is forecast to reach$ 2,810.5 million by 2023 from $299.8 million in 2017 at a CAGR of 45.2% during (2017-2023) driven by growing demand from healthcare sector for robotic rehabilitation.
• The U.S. could save billions in health spending annually by broadly deploying digital health apps for high-cost patient population groups: Annual savings could reach $46 billion if the strategy were applied across all disease areas.
• Europe is expected to hold a dominant position in the robotic rehabilitation and assistive technologies market throughout the forecast period due to increasing prevalence of disabilities in the region.
• The proposed CMS reimbursement cuts for lab tests will impose burdens on the frailest Medicare beneficiaries and will harm patient care.
• A PwC report into the global robotics and artificial intelligence markets indicated that the personal robot market could reach US$17.4bn by 2020.
• Healthcare robots deployed in coming years will include surgical robots, hospital logistics robots, disinfectant robots.
• The global market for virtual reality in healthcare will reach $3.8bn by 2020 as interest grows in expanding the tech for medical training, practice, psychiatry, rehabilitation and other uses.
• Ultimately exoskeletons will be used for the rehabilitation of all patients with serious physical injuries or physical dysfunction.
• The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation projects the current physical therapist shortage will increase significantly in the upcoming decades.
• In the U.S. the number of occupational therapy and physical therapy jobs is expected to increase 27 percent and 34 percent by 2020.
• Robust clinical evidence from developers and reimbursement coverage for patients will enable advanced rehabilitation devices to increase the adoption by the physician and patient community.
• Robotics, virtual reality, wearables, sensors and wireless technologies enable advanced rehabilitation devices and will transform the market.

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Last updated: 16 July 2019