The increasing market penetration of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and electronic medical record (EMR) and the efficiency of point of care diagnostics to provide immediate results are the major factors driving the global point of care diagnostics market. In point of care (POC) diagnosis, the tests are conducted near the site of the patient care. The increasing geriatric population globally is also a factor propelling the point of care (POC) diagnostics market. Moreover, increasing usage of home based point of care devices, increasing government support, expansion of therapeutic horizon and rapidly increasing investments by various healthcare institutes to support new product developments are also the factors driving the point of care diagnostics market. There is a shortage of skilled staff, especially in the field of diagnostics. Various government initiatives to innovate out patient care models and to minimize hospital stays and rapidly increasing demand for home healthcare globally are the factors expected to further fuel the point of care diagnostics market over the forecast period.
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The global point of care diagnostics market on the basis of product is segmented into urinalysis, fertility and feces, drug abuse testing, decentralized clinical chemistry, primary care systems (lipid and Hba1C), coagulation, hematology, cardiac markers, dedicated professional hospital glues testing, infectious diseases and blood gas/ electrolytes. The hospital glucose testing segment attributes the largest share in the market. The increasing incidences of diabetes and the necessity of constant detection of sugar levels in the blood are the key factors driving the point of care hospital...