13 Interesting Developments at #MEDICA2018

MEDICA comes to a close in Dusseldorf, Germany, but not without some interesting developments…more than a few of which could upend healthcare. The MEDICA and related COMPAMED event is one of the oldest and arguably the largest medical trade fair in the world – it attracted more than 5,100 exhibitors from 70 countries in 17 […]

5 Fast Facts About Retail Clinics from Kalorama Information’s Latest Report

Retail clinics, small clinics usually staffed by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, offer competitive hours and convenience to clients, and a great bonus for retailers. But how are they faring? Kalorama’s report “Retail Clinics 2019 Forecast: Locations, Revenues, Supplier Sales, Trends, Consumer Survey” notes the following:  They’re Growing Locations and Revenues: By the end […]

Artificial Intelligence, One Day, Could Keep The Doctor Away

You wake up with an angry stomach, but this time it’s got nothing to do with that questionable leftover poké dish you’d kept in the fridge for a week. No, there’s more to this, but is it enough to put everything on hold to call a doctor and potentially wait all day, missing work, just […]

Smartphones and IVD: Early, But Getting There

The current developments, product launches and company plans in IVD testing on smartphone platforms has been detailed by Kalorama Information in a recent report by Kalorama’s Rob Camp: https://www.kaloramainformation.com/Smartphone-Based-IVD-Products-Trends-Potential-12019398/ We summarize some of the findings of our study here.  This represents a fraction of the findings of the report: The techniques that can most successfully harness […]

CVS-Aetna Merger and Walgreens-LabCorp Partnership: Assessing The Impact

In separate moves, the two largest pharmacy retailers dramatically changed their businesses. CVS merged with healthcare insurance giant Aetna. But Walgreens also had news – the drugstore giant merged with clinical reference company LabCorp to put an announced 600 consumer testing stations in its retail stores. Both are a good sign for the market for […]

Moving the Ball Forward on EMR Connectivity for IVD Devices

  Authored by Julie Kirkwood, Kalorama Information Correspondent Until surprisingly recently, the connections between laboratory instruments and laboratory computers were based on standards developed in the 1990s. For example, one of the standards, ASTM E1394 (later revised and renamed CLSI LIS2) dates back to 1997, the year before Google was invented, when dial-up modems were still used […]

PAMA brings huge changes to lab price testing, faces resistance from ACLA

We at Kalorama Information have just released the Eleventh Edition of our flagship publication,The Worldwide Market for  In Vitro   Diagnostics. This report has been updated for two decades, keeping readers informed about developments in all areas of the IVD industry, around the world, in one volume. At 1,800 pages, the report provides market size estimates and projections […]

Next Generation Sequencing Continues to Make Strides: Neonatal Screening, Onco-genomics, Infectious Disease Dx, and More

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) in diagnostics is rapidly growing, having made great strides since the conclusion of the Human Genome Project fifteen years ago. Increasingly rapid and effective testing capabilities for hereditary diseases, cancers, cardiac and respiratory conditions, neurodegenerative disorders, and even infectious disease, are either on the horizon or have arrived. The promise of DNA […]

Kalorama To Present IVD Market Findings at BIOMEDevice

In many ways, the IVD market of today does not resemble the market five years ago.  2018 appears to be the year where a number of trends that had been discussed began to gel.  With that in mind, Kalorama Information will be on hand for UBM’s BIOMedDevice Convention in San Jose, CA next month.   In […]

China’s IVD Market: Attractive Target for Surplus Growth

China’s IVD market reached $3,200 million in 2017, in line with growth estimates published by Kalorama and elsewhere, and the fast pace of market growth is expected to continue. Supporting growth will be a modernizing healthcare infrastructure and steady migration from manual to automated processes. This was the conclusion of Kalorama Information’s recent report, IVD in […]