Medical Equipment Servicing Industry will reach High till 2017
Penny-pinching hospitals eager to get more life out of their medical equipment, an aging U.S. populace needing more treatments and a growing installed base for MRI and PET machines will help drive the global medical imaging equipment service industry to $12.35 billion by 2017, according to a new market research teaser.
Global Industry Analysts Inc. said in an announcement last week that the business of repairing and maintaining PET, ultrasound, X-ray, MRI and CT scanners would continue to expand, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, the fastest growing world market, which enjoys a compound annual growth rate of 6.71 percent.
However, the United States is still the largest market, with Europe a “distant second,” the company said. For instance, 48 of the 70 companies profiled by the firm are in the U.S., with only 12 in Europe. (Asia also has 12 companies.)