Clinical OMICs - Issue 8 - (Page 22)
Point-of-Care
Reaches a Crossroads
Alex Philippidis
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oint-of-care testing (POCT) is among the fastest-growing areas of
laboratory medicine, driven by clinicians' increased need for technologies that are faster, cheaper, and provide more robust, clinically useful
results than ever-a need fueled more recently by the ongoing restructuring of U.S. healthcare through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The POCT market is projected to grow to $27.5 billion by 2018 based on a compound annual growth rate of 9.3% since 2013 (MarketsandMarkets), which would peg
the current market size at a little over $16 billion. Glucose tests remain the majority
of the POCT market-53.7% in 2013 (Reportlinker.com)-but have fallen from 70% in
2011 (RnR Market Research), reflecting expanded use of POCT.
POCT is broad enough to take in the processing lab's traditional molecular diagnostics increasingly seen in hospitals, home pregnancy or glucose tests, and "rapid
diagnostic tests" or RDTs. "Rapid" can range from seconds to hours while patients wait,
as long as it's within a clinical encounter that allows for quick decision-making by the
clinician.
Several factors have driven POCT growth. Harry Glorikian, a life sciences and healthcare industry consultant, told Clinical OMICs that in addition to continued demand
for more rapid results, clinical practices have been drawn to point-of-care testing by:
* Its increasing ability to satisfy the need for analyzing more patient data
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New technologies that allow small POCT devices to yield quality of results previously
only available in large, centralized devices
New outcomes-based guidelines that offer incentives for enhanced patient care
through POCT
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