Frost & Sullivan: ANZ Functional Beverages Market Offers Innovative Organic Products and New Flavours to Meet Customer Demands

SYDNEY, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Functional beverage manufacturers are acknowledging consumer demand for natural and organic beverages by investing in product innovation, new flavours, and the introduction of balanced nutrients and environment-friendly packages. The segments to benefit the most from this rising preference for organic beverages are sugar-free energy drinks and fortified fruit juices. The latter is especially popular in healthy diets due to its concentration of vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial micronutrients.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Functional Beverage Market in Australia and New Zealand, finds that the market earned revenues of $1.6 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $2.3 billion in 2017. The study covers the product segments of sports drinks, energy drinks, enhanced bottle water, fortified fruit juices, functional soy beverages and others (ready-to-drink (RTD) tea, RTD coffee, and RTD vegetable juice). The energy drinks segment is expected to lead through the use of healthier ingredients. While Australia is projected to experience significant growth, New Zealand is likely to grow moderately.

However, there is widespread scepticism regarding the health claims made by functional beverage manufacturers, as the benefits of some ingredients are not scientifically validated.

"Many functional beverages use health ingredients whose safety and dosage levels have not been checked, while some beverages have higher levels of a certain ingredients that could have an adverse effect on health," said Frost & Sullivan Chemicals, Materials & Food Research Analyst Yaqin Liu.

Market participants are also wary of the rising competition from private labels, as their competitive pricing strategy is causing price sensitivity among consumers. Further, margins are shrinking due to the escalating operating costs incurred on ingredients, labour and land.

Beverage manufacturers can attempt to widen their margins by improving the productivity of the plant, and reduce ingredient costs by nurturing alliances to obtain materials from all over the world. They can further increase sales by educating consumers about the specific functions and benefits of their beverages.

"Clearly, product innovation is vital to thrive in this market. Participants will gain a definite edge by establishing a strong pipeline to constantly introduce products and flavours," noted Liu. "Additionally, effective marketing campaigns, distributions channels, and pricing strategies will go a long way in boosting the market's prospects."

If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Donna Jeremiah, Corporate Communications, at djeremiah@frost.com, with your full name, company name, job title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country.

Analysis of the Functional Beverage Market in Australia and New Zealand is part of the Food and Beverage Ingredients (http://www.food.frost.com) Growth Partnership Service program. Frost & Sullivan's related research services include: Strategic Growth and Emerging Export Opportunities in the Australian and New Zealand Dairy Sector, Strategic Analysis of the Global Omega-3 Pharmaceutical Market, Opportunity Assessment for Gluten-free Products Market in India, and Food and Agriculture Global Growth Trends Review. All research services included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.

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Tunstall Healthcare and Qualcomm Collaborate for Global Deployment of Innovative Connected Care Services

UNITED KINGDOM, March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology-enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform.

The 2net Platform is a cloud-based, device-agnostic and interoperable system that enables end-to-end connectivity with an expansive variety of medical devices and applications, allowing users and their clinicians or caregivers to easily access biometric data. It alleviates the challenges of interoperability by making it easier for customers to liberate data from a patient's medical device through seamless data acquisition and transmission to the manufacturer's interface of choice. The 2net Platform provides a comprehensive platform where near real-time data can be accessed by patients and clinicians, unlocking the potential for improved health care delivery.

Tunstall joins the large network of organisations that are leveraging the functionality of the open-standard 2net Platform as a Qualcomm Life Ecosystem member. As a member, Tunstall is able to meet its customers increasing expectations and deliver high-quality care and support worldwide. Through its collaboration with Qualcomm Life, Tunstall will add the 2net Hub and mobile applications to its product portfolio, in addition to integrating 2net into Tunstall existing telehealth systems.

Rick Valencia, senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Life said, "We value the opportunity to work with Tunstall, because they bring a world-renowned reputation, industry experience and proven results in scalability, which supports our mission to broaden the scope of telehealthcare. As health care monitoring shifts from acute-care settings to less-costly settings, like the patient's home, our 2net Platform is bridging the technology gap. 2net is one of the only services on the market that combines a well-established, agnostic ecosystem of service providers and manufacturers, with a business model that supports scalability."

Steve Sadler, CTO, Tunstall commented, "Our collaboration with Qualcomm Life marks an important step in the development of our Bespoke care services, as we move towards an increasingly open-standard model of care provision. By joining the Qualcomm Life Ecosystem and integrating with the 2net Platform, we're able to provide our customers with access to a single source of information. We look forward to working closely with Qualcomm Life to extend our services further and identify opportunities for the ongoing integration of health and social care."

About Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

About Tunstall

Tunstall Healthcare Group is the market leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, with over 3.6 million users globally. Tunstall's solutions support older people and those with long-term needs, helping them to live independently by effectively managing their health and well-being. Its solutions have been proven effective in the world's largest telehealthcare trial. Tunstall provides technology, services, expertise and advice to millions of people enabling them to lead independent more fulfilling lives. For more information on how telehealthcare can improve quality of life, visit www.tunstall.com.  

Copyright ©2014 Qualcomm Life, Inc. All rights reserved. Qualcomm and 2net are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries. HealthyCircles is a trademark of MyTeleHealth Solutions, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Life, Inc. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. All QUALCOMM Incorporated trademarks are used with permission.

The 2net services are offered through Qualcomm Life, Inc. Available in the United States, Canada and the European Union. Wireless network coverage may vary. Medical device depicted may not be available at the time of this publication. Nothing in these materials is an offer to sell any of the components or devices referenced herein.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Emily Kilpatrick, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com

Jamie Eisinger, Qualcomm Life
Phone: 1-858-845-1033
Email: jeisinge@qti.qualcomm.com

Warren Kneeshaw, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com

Tunstall Contacts:
Jenni Livesley, Tunstall
Phone: 01625 511966
Email: jenni.livesley@contextpr.co.uk

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Newly Launched Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA) Provides Innovative Solutions to Often Complex Security and Identity Protection Issues

Janice Kephart, SIBA CEO and founder. (PRNewsFoto/Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA))jwplayer.key="2kY/GKwZ2uQZmDlQ9VYArfZt2b4+KhHX3+DM4zisgtE=";WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A new association designed to bring the "A" game to identity-thought leadership, the Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA), debuts today. SIBA was created for vendors, research institutions, nonprofits and individuals. The organization's purpose is to provide proactive education, policy refinement and solutions to the complexities of balancing identity security and protection with national security, public safety, economic strength, privacy and innovation. These technologies include both biological and behavioral biometrics such as fingerprints, facial and iris recognition, voice identification as well as secure credentials.  

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Today these technologies make the world more physically and virtually safe, quick, and economically efficient. Benefits include securing borders, enabling individuals without documentation to be brought out of anonymity, catching dangerous criminals and terrorists, reconciling refugees and reuniting families, reducing identity theft, and enabling medical patients increased privacy while reducing fraud in healthcare. For consumers, biometrics provide protection beyond the use of passwords, most tangibly in banking and mobile solutions.  

Yet SIBA believes that even greater benefits from these innovations can be realized if we understand better what these technologies are, and are not, and how they truly affect us as individuals, a nation, and as a global community. "With a struggling economy, the opportunity for innovation and economic growth is explosive. The global biometrics market was $7 billion in 2012. By 2020, it is slated to grow to $20 billion. With policies in place that embrace responsible future applications, these technologies can evolve into a core stabilizer for the economy's recovery and future growth," said SIBA founder and CEO, Janice Kephart.

Kephart has garnered success in some of the most difficult environments in Washington, D.C. bringing to SIBA unprecedented leadership and know-how. Ms. Kephart has:

supported and drafted identity-related recommendations in the 9/11 Final Report as a border counsel to the 9/11 Commission and is a key author of the Commission staff monograph, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel; testified 16 times before Congress on issues including identity legislation and policy; had two bills pass Congress by unanimous consent and signed into law including the current federal criminal code for identity theft; spent five years as a think tank national security director; consulted for the Department of Homeland Security on secure credential law; appeared at conferences, and dozens of appearances on major TV, radio and print media outlets as both expert and opinion writer; hosted "The Homeland Security Show with Janice Kephart" on VIPInternetRadio.com which aired for an hour every Monday for a year and a half, the most listened to show on the station; has been featured by Duke University as one of the most influential undergraduate alums of the 1980s. For more, see http://www.sibassoc.org/ or contact jkephart@sibassoc.org For membership inquiries: mmontgomery@sibassoc.org Read Kephart's new backgrounder on why biometric exit may advance in 2014 with or without immigration reform here.Contact:
Janice Kephart
703-581-7721

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MedNet Solutions Announces Latest Release Of Its Innovative iMedNet EDC eClinical Solution

MINNETONKA, Minn., Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MedNet Solutions, a global life sciences technology company specializing in clinical study management systems, is pleased to announce that the latest version of iMedNet™ EDC has been released to the iMedNet user community.  iMedNet EDC provides an exceptionally flexible, intuitive and affordable cloud-based eClinical platform ideally suited to Sponsors and CROs wanting to quickly and easily build their own studies.

Release highlights include:

CRF Dashboard – A novel new query management tool providing streamlined access to all queries, query histories, data field changes and approval histories…all from within the case report form (CRF) record.  Auto Query – An extremely efficient mechanism to automatically apply and remove queries, and manually intervene when necessary. UAT Environment – Greatly simplifies user acceptance testing (UAT) prior to initial study release and mid-study updates. Productivity Enhancements – Numerous updates have been implemented throughout iMedNet…from Casebook Manager to Datasets on Demand…further augmenting clinical research efficacy."This latest release clearly demonstrates MedNet's ongoing commitment to streamlining the clinical research process," stated Tony Brown, iMedNet Product Manager at MedNet Solutions.  "We'll continue to refine and improve iMedNet over time to ensure it's the best eClinical solution available anywhere. We'll never rest on our laurels." 

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About MedNet Solutions

MedNet Solutions is a leading healthcare technology company specializing in electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical trial management systems (CTMS) designed for the global life sciences market.  MedNet delivers proven, flexible and easy-to-use web-based eClinical solutions that effectively support clinical studies, registries and investigator initiated trials of all types and sizes.  Since 2001, MedNet has successfully supported pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and contract research organizations (CROs) on clinical research conducted around the world.  These companies trust MedNet to consistently deliver the technology innovation, experience and reliability they need for success.  For more information, please visit www.mednetstudy.com.

Contact Information:
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Director of Marketing
110 Cheshire Lane, Suite 300
Minnetonka, MN 55305
USA
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Bruin Biometrics, LLC Awarded CE Mark for the SEM Scanner, an Innovative Diagnostic Tool to Detect Pressure Induced Tissue Damage

BBI Logo. (PRNewsFoto/Bruin Biometrics, LLC)jwplayer.key="2kY/GKwZ2uQZmDlQ9VYArfZt2b4+KhHX3+DM4zisgtE=";LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruin Biometrics, LLC ("BBI") announced today that it has received CE Marking (Conformite Europeenne) in the European Union to market the SEM Scanner. The SEM Scanner is a Class IIA medical device that is intended to detect localized tissue edema and pressure induced tissue damage that may lead to the formation of pressure ulcers (also known as pressure sores, or decubitus ulcers) before damage becomes visible on the skin's surface.

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The hand-held, portable SEM Scanner is a point of care diagnostic tool that measures increased fluid content within the skin and underlying tissue known as subepidermal moisture (SEM). SEM can serve as a biophysical marker of inflammation indicative of impending skin damage and pressure ulcer formation. In clinical studies, SEM has been shown to identify pressure-induced tissue damage — including pressure ulcers — up to 10 days before damage becomes visible on the skin's surface.

Early detection of pressure ulcers with the SEM Scanner can lead to targeted interventions, reduced ulceration severity, and early recovery, as well as decreased hospital days. Additional advantages of the SEM Scanner over other diagnostic modalities include objective, evidence-based measurements; non-invasive, rapid results; clear risk assessment documentation; standardized patient assessment; and minimal technical skills for operation.

BBI developed the SEM Scanner in conjunction with research colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), notably Barbara Bates-Jensen, PhD, RN, CWOCN, FAAN. Bates-Jensen serves as Chair of the Faculty Executive Committee at the UCLA School of Nursing and Associate Adjunct Professor, Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

BBI will officially launch the SEM Scanner at the upcoming MEDICA conference taking place in Dusseldorf, Germany, November 20-23, 2013. For additional information, please visit www.bruinbiometrics.com.

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