Report Highlights
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The global market for home medical equipment (HME) was worth about $16.8 billion in 2009. BCC expects the HME market to grow to $17.7 billion in 2010 and $23.8 billion by 2015, a CAGR of 6.1% over the next 5 years.
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The market for therapeutic HME as a group is the fastest growing segment; their share of the total global HME market is expected to increase from about 23% to 28% by 2015. Therapeutic HME was valued at $3.9 billion in 2009 and $4.3 billion in 2010 and will be worth an estimated $6.7 billion by 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3%.
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Monitors, sensors, and telemetry devices account for the largest share of the HME market, mainly because of the very large market for home blood glucose testers. This segment was worth $7.7 billion in 2009 and $8 billion in 2010. By 2015, this sector will be worth an estimated $11.3 billion, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7%.
INTRODUCTION
- Identify and segment the main types of HME that have been commercialized to date
- Analyze the historical and current value of shipments of each of these product segments in specified applications, end-user and geographical markets
- Identify and evaluate the impact of demographic, technological, regulatory and other factors that will drive future demand in each of these segments
- Forecast the value of future shipments in each segment
- Identify promising new technologies and products still in the development and testing stage that are likely to be commercialized successfully in the next 5 years
- Identify leading HME vendors.
- Manufacturers and distributors of HME
- Regulators and health insurers
- Investors
- The financial and analyst community.
- Can withstand repeated use
- Is primarily and customarily used to serve a medical purpose
- Generally is not useful to a person in the absence of an illness or injury
- Is not implanted inside the patient’s body
- Is appropriate for use in the home
- Does not require a trained medical professional to operate
- Usually requires a doctor’s prescription to buy (e.g., excludes most canes, walkers and other elderly and disabled assistive devices)
- Generally does not include drugs and other consumables.
- United States
- Canada
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Japan
- UK
- Other G-20 nations.
- Major product types and applications, both commercial and developmental
- Market size and segmentation, including historical data on sales by product type, and geographical market
- Market drivers and constraints
- Detailed market projections through 2015
- Patent analysis
- Competitor profiles.
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Report Highlights
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The global home medical equipment market increased from about $13.9 billion in 2006 to an estimated $14.6 billion in 2007. It should reach $20.4 billion by 2012, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8%.
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The United States and Canada together form the largest geographical market for HME, i.e, 34.2% of the global market.
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Among the various diseases managed or treated with HME, diabetes accounts for the largest share (i.e., 46.2% in 2006) of the global HME market.
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