Industry profile: Low - and high - tech devices for a global market
Article Abstract:
The United States medical equipment industry has achieved global revenue of $250 billion revenue in 2004. The industry manufactures products of wide variety that include trays, kits, gowns, syringes, etc. The industry's most profitable sector comprises of innovative high-tech products such as cardiac defibrillators, diagnostics imaging systems, etc. Other conventional hospital supply products such as syringes, surgical apparel, etc. have low margins but high volume. A statistical data on the financial performance of different medical equipment companies for the year 2004 is presented.
Publication Name: Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: Health Care
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0196-4666
Year: 2005
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Key industry ratios and statistics
Article Abstract:
Key industry ratio and statistics governing the medical equipment industry such as Medicare spending, research and development, foreign currency exchange rates, etc, are presented.
Publication Name: Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys: Health Care
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0196-4666
Year: 2006
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