IVD Companies Should Consider Urgent Care in Growth Strategy: Kalorama
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 04/03/13 -- They are facilities that can handle most medical situations from the flu to a laceration to a broken arm. Hospitals and governments have been using them since the 1980s to relieve overburdened and unprofitable ERs. Physicians have looked to them as a way to leave unprofitable and exhausting practices. And insurance companies have found them to be a great partner in reducing healthcare costs. And according to a report from Kalorama Information, , they have already seen recent growth in anticipation of healthcare reform.
Located in strip malls or free standing buildings off highways and busy corners, urgent care centers, facilities that can handle a variety of medical conditions are demonstrating growth. Facilities have grown from 8,000 in 2008 to 9,300 in 2012. Six hundred new facilities sprung up since 2010, according to Kalorama Information. The firm sees it as a response to doctor retirements and healthcare reform.
"With so much focus on the hospital and the physician waiting room, many have ignored an under-the-radar healthcare revolution that has been going on, and that is the increasing availability and usage of urgent care centers," said Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information.
Urgent care centers have better hours than most physicians, and the facilities are larger and differ from traditional physicians' offices with procedure rooms for lacerations and fractures and a radiology department for x-ray services, sometimes an in-house pharmacy. Increasingly, many urgent care centers have laboratories and the larger chains boast of their lab facilities. While some traditional physician practices may have these facilitates, it is more the exception. It is the rule for urgent care centers to have these service spaces available. This, the firm thinks, should be of interest to IVD companies.
"Most labs do some kind of testing and a sizable portion can perform either moderate or full certified CLIA testing," said Carlson. "POC testing is the norm, flu tests, infectious disease, but some run routine clin chem. Increasingly you are seeing the centers fulfill more primary care functions and thus a variety of tests will be needed."
The success story of urgent care centers is one of the bright spots of healthcare provision in recent years, and is not unnoticed by traditional health venues. In the future, watch hospitals and physicians mimicking the best parts of the urgent care business model. Retail clinics in stores and other sorts of fast care will see increased usage. Some hospitals are developing non-emergency triaging in the ED, this and the increasing competition among centers will mean the market for urgent care is not without challenges, according to the report.
Kalorama's report, , is available from Kalorama Information. The report provides further detail on clinic growth, the market for clinic services and IVD supplier sales estimates. The report can be found at:
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