POCT is short for PointofCareTesting and is a sub-sector of the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) industry. By simplifying design and technological innovations, POCT enables quick and easy on-site inspection at the patient's site for quick diagnostic results. At present, POCT products have been widely used in the hospital ICU, surgery, emergency, clinics and patients at home, most of the routine clinical tests can be carried out.

POCT is an important development direction and the fastest growing field of in vitro diagnostic industry in recent years. In 2012, the global POCT market was about 10 billion U.S. dollars and maintained a compound growth rate of 8%.

The consumption of POCT products is related to medical conditions, health awareness and living standard. In terms of regional distribution, the global consumption of POCT is mainly concentrated in developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States. The domestic consumption of POCT is mainly concentrated in economically developed cities. At the same time, the consumption of POCT products also shows certain regional characteristics in terms of product categories, For example, in the United States, there is a strong demand for drug abuse testing products, while in Africa, there is a strong demand for infectious disease testing products.

Currently the hospital is still the main body of POCT product demand in Europe and the United States. Through POCT products and hospital existing center laboratories and other departments to supplement, Europe and the United States hospitals have established to meet the needs of multi-level diagnostic platform.

POCT market is still in the early stage of development. The overall market is still in the 90s in Europe and the United States. The penetration rate of terminals such as hospitals is extremely low, which is a potential huge market for POCT. POCT products in China is an immense blue ocean market with huge application space in the fields of hospital operation, emergency department, intensive care, chronic disease prevention and control, public health emergencies, construction of county-level medical institutions and new rural cooperative medical care.

Clinical needs and technological progress promote the rapid development of POCT

The rapid development of POCT industry from the internal reasons, the traditional test methods can not meet the "in the shortest possible time to get accurate test results," the clinical requirements; the other hand, the traditional test methods often lead to higher medical costs, The development of laboratory medicine and health economics has spawned the need for new, rapid and accurate detection methods. From the external reasons, advances in technology make the emergence of rapid and accurate detection methods possible.

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POCT clinical superiority prominent

Compared with other in vitro diagnostic products, POCT products have three distinctive features: detection time, POCT products from the sample collection and detection results to detect the detection cycle; test space, POCT belong to the detection of the object side of the test; The operator of the test, POCT operators can be non-professional examiners, and even the test subjects themselves.

The quality and speed of traditional laboratory medicine have been significantly improved after automation. However, there are still many complicated steps before and after analysis, which takes a lot of time and can not meet the clinical requirement of "accurately testing in the shortest time" Result "requirement. Especially in the emergency or rescue of patients, due to critical condition and the disease is unknown, the complicated testing process often leads to missed the best treatment time.

Compared with the traditional laboratory medicine, POCT can save a lot of sample pretreatment, sample submission, cumbersome equipment testing, data processing and transmission processes and other steps to obtain reliable results directly and win valuable time for doctor's further rescue .