Medical Device & Equipment Tags Market

Medical Device & Equipment Tags Market Overview

The medical device & equipment tags market was valued at US$ 350.0 Mn in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period 2021-2031. Medical device & equipment tags can be utilized to primary record-keeping system or as a backup to digital records for healthcare institutions.

It also offers various applications such as fast inspection of flawed medical devices, reduction in medical errors, improved patient treatment, and others. The reliability of such applications drives the growth of medical device & equipment tags market.

What is Driving Demand for Medical Device & Equipment Tags?

The growing demand for medical equipment tags and medical barcode labels for easy identification of equipment cleanliness and repair status is creating new growth opportunities for medical device & equipment tags providers.

Medical device & equipment tags is offering a wide range of benefits such as patient identification, surgical instrument identification & sterilization, reduction in medical errors, better assessment of device performance, and others.

Continuous developments and implementation of new technologies such as unique device identification (UDI) and radio-frequency identification technology in healthcare sectors are creating growth opportunities.

Such technologies are providing various applications such as patient & staff identification, warehouse management solutions, lab specimen & medication labeling, location identification & wayfinding, laboratory vial, tray & rack identification and others.

What is the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak on Sales of Medical Device & Equipment Tags?

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the medical device & equipment tags have gained momentum in particularly, traction, companies have changed their annual budgets and major preferences to get through during this pandemic.

The Medical Device & Equipment Tags market is facing a slowdown as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, with the effects prompted by self-isolation guidelines, manufacturer’s moving supply chains away from China, & India and modifying medical device & equipment tags material used for essential commodities.

However, according to the report, the medical device & equipment tags market declined during Q1-Q2, 2021, and is now estimated to recover and return to growth by Q4, 2021.

China and India Medical Device & Equipment Tags Market Outlook

China is the largest market for medical device & equipment tags, due to the strong presence of medical device & equipment tags manufactures and providers, in the Asia Pacific region. This is attributed to the high increase in demand for medical device & equipment tags for various end-users such as healthcare, medical facilities, clinical, and others.

Medical device & equipment tags offers different features such as mobile medical equipment, secure with adhesive backing strips, low-level disinfectants, surgical instrument tracking, and others. Hence, through the flexibility offered by Medical device & equipment tags vendors in the market can take the advantage of the accelerating opportunities in East Asia and South Asia & Pacific countries like India, China, Japan, and others.

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Europe has High Growth Opportunities for Medical Device & Equipment Tags Market

France, Spain, and U.K. are creating potential growth opportunities for the growth of the medical device & equipment tags market owing to the rise in R&D funding for the development of RFID for medical device and surgical instrument tracking.

East Asia and South Asia region have an increasing number of manufacturing sectors hence the Medical Device & Equipment Tags is used to detect error and quality checks of products. Such major factors are driving the growth of Medical Device & Equipment Tags in East Asia and the South Asia region.

Who are the Key Providers of Medical Device & Equipment Tags?

Key players such as

• St. Louis Tag Co.
• Techprintinc, Inc.
• Tag Medical
• Coast Label Company
• Horizons, Inc.
• Dasco Label
• CILS International
• NFI Corp
• Avery Dennison Corporation, and others are actively involved in offering medical device & equipment tags for different applications. 

The key players strategies to improve expected product offerings, development, technical advances, and marketing position resulting from the acquisition, that are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, projections, assumptions, and forecasts about business and the markets in which medical device & equipment tags manufacturer operates.

For instance, June 2018, Cohealo launched SaaS solution for tracking medical equipment utilization. It enhanced the efficiency of the medical equipment by continuously monitoring their utilization and providing insights on how equipment can deployed in an optimal manner.

The report is a compilation of first-hand information, qualitative and quantitative assessment by industry analysts, inputs from industry experts and industry participants across the value chain. The report provides in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macro-economic indicators and governing factors along with market attractiveness as per segments.

The report also maps the qualitative impact of various market factors on market segments and geographies.

Key Segments

By Type:

• Clean Equipment Tags
• Dirty Equipment Tags
• Repair Equipment Tags
• Multipack Tags
• Others

By Application:

• Reduction in medical errors
• Improved patient treatment.
• Monitoring & Diagnostic Equipment
• Others

By Region:

• North America
  • US
  • Canada
• Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
  • Rest of Latin America
• Europe
  • UK
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • BENELUX
  • Russia
  • Rest of Europe
• East Asia
  • China
  • Japan
  • South Korea
• South Asia & Pacific
  • India
  • Thailand
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Australia & New Zealand
  • Rest of South Asia & Pacific
• Middle East & Africa
  • GCC Countries
  • Turkey
  • South Africa
  • Rest of Middle East and Africa