The Global Market for Patient Scales is Projected to Reach US$68.5 Million by 2022

Increasing Importance of Weight as a Key Parameter for Health Assessment Drives Patient Scales Market, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

GIA launches comprehensive analysis of industry segments, trends, growth drivers, market share, size and demand forecasts on the global Patient Scales market. The global market for Patient Scales is projected to reach US$68.5 million by 2022, driven by growing obesity prevalence, increasing popularity of weight loss programs, rising importance of weight check for health assessment and product developments.

Body weight is an important parameter to assess health status of patients, ranging from new-born babies to geriatric patients. Accurate weight helps physicians better understand critical health related information of patients such as nutrition levels, fluid retention and other vital information for prescribing appropriate medicines. Devices used in measuring weight of patients, called patient scales, are a common place in healthcare institutions such as hospitals and clinics, and in long-term care establishments and patient homes. Healthcare establishments require a wide variety of scales, depending upon the peculiar needs of patients being served, including expecting mothers, accident victims, obese individuals, old age people, babies and patients with mobility problems. Aging population, rising obesity levels, and increasing incidence of lifestyle diseases are resulting in increasing visits to clinics and hospitals, and driving up healthcare spending. Changing needs of health assessment and healthcare delivery, and diversity in patient groups are compelling hospitals to investment in various types of patient scales that suit to individual patient needs. While patients with restricted movements require bed/under bed scales or wheelchair scales, weighing obese patients makes it necessary for establishments to use high-load capacity bariatric scales. 

Rising prevalence of chronic diseases and life expectancy is also encouraging growth in long-term and home care for patients, as governments and patients strive to cut down costs. These changes have succeeded in driving demand for patient scales used in non-hospital settings. Technological advances too are contributing to growth in adoption of new and more advanced scales. While conventional patient scales are designed to provide weight exclusively, modern day scales go beyond just weight by providing information on other parameters such as body weight, fat mass, and total body water among others. Significant advancements are emerging in design and technology. Increased accuracy, convenience, portability and connectivity to hospital medical records have resulted in growing adoption of more modern scales. Infant & baby scales, for instance, witnessed new features such as novel design of trays and seats for comfortable positioning of the baby, material innovations for superior baby comfort and device maintenance, recording features that help recall weights, baby movement cancellation for accurate measurement and connectivity functionality with electronic health records, in recent years.

As stated by the new market research report on Patient Scales, the United States represents the largest market worldwide. While the developed markets such as the U.S. and Europe lead in terms of sales, growth is expected to remain below the global average due to relative market maturity. On the contrary, emerging markets in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and other parts of the world are expected to lead the charge going forwards. Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing market worldwide, with a CAGR of 5.5% through the analysis period. Increasing population, rising prevalence of chronic conditions such as obesity, growing incomes, increasing access to healthcare services and improving healthcare infrastructure are expected to drive demand for new and advanced patient scales in the market. Segment wise, floor scales represent the largest market for patient scales, while growth is projected to be spearheaded by Under Bed Scales. 

Major players covered in the report include Algen Scale Corp., Detecto Scale Company, Doran Scales, Inc., Natus Medical Incorporated, Pelstar, LLC, seca GmbH & Co. Kg., SR Instruments, Inc., Tanita Corporation, Wedderburn and Welch Allyn, Inc. among others. 

The research report titled “Patient Scales: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities of global companies. The report provides market estimates and projections for Patient Scales in US$ terms for all major geographic markets such as United States, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America (Brazil and Rest of Latin America) and Rest of World. The report also analyzes the global and regional markets for Patient Scales by the product segments – Floor Scales, Infant & Baby Scales, Chair Scales and Under Bed Scales.

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