Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac 2008: Health Care Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies

by Jack W. Plunkett

Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac is the only complete reference to the American Health Care Industry and its leading corporations. Whatever your purpose for researching the health care field, you'll find this award-winning reference book to be a valuable guide. No other source provides this massive book's easy-to-understand comparisons of national health expenditures, emerging technologies, patient populations, hospitals, clinics, corporations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and many other areas of vital importance. Included in the market research sections are dozens of statistical tables covering every aspect of the industry, from Medicare expenditures to hospital utilization, from insured and uninsured populations to revenues to health care expenditures as a percent of GDP. A special area covers vital statistics and health status of the U.S. population. The corporate analysis section features in-depth profiles of the "Health Care 500"; the 500 largest and most successful for-profit firms within the health care system, from the leading companies in pharmaceuticals to the major managed care companies. Details for each corporation include growth plans, divisions, subsidiaries, brand names, competitive advantage and financial results--as well as executives by title and valuable contact information such as phone, fax, website and address. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.

720 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2007

About the author

Jack W. Plunkett, author and editor of over 30 books, is CEO & Publisher of Plunkett Research, Ltd., a Houston-based provider of award-winning market research and industry information in printed and electronic formats since 1985.

A lifetime fan of books, Jack Plunkett says he always knew he would be involved in writing and publishing:

"When I was a very small boy, I would go on weekly family trips to the local branch library in Dallas where I would check out huge piles of books and plow through them as quickly as I could. Later, when I was a bit older, I would take the public transit on my own to the big downtown main library and spend hours roaming the stacks of reference books, magazines and out-of-town newspapers. I was completely hooked on data of all types by the time I was 13."

The Plunkett Research team focuses on industry trends and statistics analysis, and produces over 18,000 pages of proprietary market research each year. This research empowers strategists at top consultancies, professors at the world's leading schools of business, venture capitalists and financial leaders, as well as executives at the world's top corporations.

Plunkett says:

"The focus of much of our work is to look for synergies among business trends and see how those trends are going to change the world in the near future."

A life-long entrepreneur, he has won numerous awards and was recognized as a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition sponsored by Ernst & Young.

Plunkett is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on university campuses and business events, having recently made speeches in Singapore and New Delhi. He is frequently interviewed as an expert source by publications such as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Investor's Business Daily; media outlets such as NPR's Marketplace, ABC News and CBS Marketwatch; as well as local and regional newspapers and national columnists. Jack Plunkett is a resident of Houston, Texas.