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Deepti GuptaApplied Analytics through Case Studies Using SAS and Rhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3525-6_5

5. Healthcare Case Study

Deepti Gupta1 
(1)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 
The healthcare industry is growing at a very fast pace with global healthcare spending projected to touch USD 8.7 trillion in 2020. 1 The healthcare sector comprises the industries that specialize in products and services that provide health and medical care to patients. The sector can be broadly classified under four main subsectors displayed in Figure 5-1.
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Figure 5-1

Subsectors in healthcare sector

Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical subsectors consist ...

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