3. Labs are Emerging – How Come?
Diagnostic and medical laboratories:
• Are vital to the healthcare sector providing healthcare
practitioners with information concerning the onset, severity and
cause of patients' ailments and illnesses.
• The aging population and the movement toward preventive care
have stimulated demand for industry services. For example, as
more elderly patients received preventive screening tests, many
required laboratory services to address irregular screening results.
4. Emerging Labs – How come?
• Demand for diagnostic and medical laboratory services is mainly influenced by
scientific advancements, which are yielding new and improved service
capabilities; an aging population, which increases demand for laboratory testing
and diagnostic imaging services; the extent to which physicians and their
patients appreciate the value that these services bring to health and wellness;
and the cost of services, which can be influenced by government program
reimbursement.
• The primary growth drivers for the Global Clinical Laboratory Services
Market are growing number of cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, and other such
dangerous incidences and infections. As the patients have only grown in the
recent years, the market for clinical services has also grown and is expected
expand further. Analysts predict, the geriatric population in U.S. is expected to
grow by 20% in 2030. With such a huge leap, U.S. alone is expected to
contribute greatly to the global clinical laboratory services market.
6. What’s the Market?
• The Commercial Market growing in response to need. .
• The commercial medical and diagnostic laboratory industry in the
US consists of about 14,000 establishments (single-location
companies and units of multi-location companies) with combined
annual revenue of about $48 billion. Medical labs account for
about 60 percent of industry revenue; imaging centers account for
40 percent.
7. Who’s the Commercial Players?
• Major companies include (US Based):
• Alliance HealthCare Services
• LabCorp
• Quest Diagnostics
• RadNet
• The top four players (US) accounted for an estimated 28.7% of
industry revenue in 2015. However, market leaders Quest
Diagnostics and Laboratory Corp of America generate about
26.1% of total industry revenue.
8. Quest Diagnostics Inc. HQ Madison, NJ
• Market Share: 14.4%
• Quest Diagnostics Inc. (Quest) is the world’s leading provider of diagnostic
testing, information and services.
• Offers patients and physicians access to these services through its nationwide
network of laboratories and company-owned service centers.
• Founded in 1990, Quest employs about 42,000 workers and is headquartered in
Madison, NJ.
• Also operates 80 locations in the United States, where it coordinates
paramedical examinations related to life insurance applications.
• The company is recognized for developing new tests, technology and services,
which include personalized and targeted medicine.
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9. “So What” for Spacesaver?
• Applications for storage of paraffin blocks, samples, supplies. . .
• Customer installs include:
• St Louis, MO – sold on GPO
10. Lab Corporation of America Holdings
(LabCorp)
• Market Share: 11.7%
• The company's services include:
• Routine and specialty testing, with a focus on infectious disease, oncology
and genetics.
• HQ Burlington, NC
• Services offered through a national network of 50 primary laboratories,
more than 1,800 patient service centers and a system of branches and
laboratories.
11. Trends in Labs. . .CLUSTERING
• Companies are increasingly moving into clusters located in urban
environments near universities, hospitals and related science and
technology companies.
• Helps attract and retain the best and brightest recruits, as the
new generation of scientists and researchers want to work and
play in stimulating environments populated by thought leaders.
• Clustering also creates the opportunity for interaction with other
centers of thinking; offers access to interdisciplinary collaboration
plus more diversity and quantity of data; and facilitates the goals
of translational medicine.
12. CLUSTERING. . .Impact on Space. . .
• Real estate costs go up.
• Companies must use their lab space more efficiently.
• The idea that every person has a designated desk or lab bench seat is changing. This also
is true of academic lab settings.
• Flexible Labs:
• At the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, the current lab space represents a
50/50 ratio of wet to dry space, with “flex” lab space in between the wet modules
to allow for growth of either the wet or dry programs as needed.
• Collaboration spaces are essential in today’s labs. Small discussion/conference areas are
placed in immediate proximity to lab areas, creating ease of motion from one zone to
another, thereby fostering spontaneous collaboration.
• Writing surfaces are important within these spaces, and interior glass windows often
function as writing surfaces. (GE Moveable Walls?) There is also a trend away from
programmed “huddle spaces” along corridors and toward more general-purpose
amenities like coffee bars.
13. Titles of Decision Makers
• Capital Project Teams
• Project Managers
• Research Program Directors
• Facility Managers
• Facility Engineers
• Capital Planners Scientists
• Faculty
• Research Operations Managers
