Medical Display Monitor Procurement Rising with Growing Healthcare Sector

While at any medical facility, be it a primary-care clinic or a tertiary-care hospital, knowing exactly what is going on inside the patient’s body is everything for a doctor. With the advent of cutting-edge diagnostic tests, such as X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrocardiograms (ECG/EKG), electroencephalograms (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), and ultrasound (sonograms), all aspects of healthcare, including diagnosis and treatment, have been revolutionized. However, these technologies need the proper tools to be made the most out of. One of the most-important tools in this regard is a display monitor, which is essentially a TV hooked to the hospital mainframe or a particular medical system.

The demand for these devices is growing with the rising prevalence of all kinds of diseases. For instance, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and cancer carry a global mortality of 17.9 million and 9.6 million, respectively, every year. Medical display monitors are used widely for looking at digital X-ray, MRI, computed tomography (CT), PET, and ultrasound scans during the diagnosis stage. Moreover, they are even required for conducting these procedures and others, such as biopsies, angiographies, endoscopies, functional MRIs, and color dopplers, to see internal imagery in real time.

Similarly, they are required during therapeutic procedures, such as angioplasties and embolectomies. Display monitors become even more important during minimally invasive surgeries (MIS), where the body is not really opened up and only a tiny incision is made for the surgeon to operate. This makes high-resolution monitors really necessary as they are the surgeons’ eyes during the process; the doctor cannot take a direct peek inside the body since the incision isn’t big enough. Therefore, since MISs cause less pain and trauma and lead to a shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery, their popularity is rising, thereby driving the demand for medical display monitors.

This is why color monitors are more popular than monochrome (black-and-white) monitors. While conventional X-rays, CTs, and MRIs are black and white, when used with a contrast agent, they require color monitors. Similarly, PET scans, endoscopies, photoacoustic scans, color dopplers, and fMRIs are better performed with color monitors. In the same way, surgeries also mandate these variants because seeing everything in black and white can lead to surgical errors.

Presently, North America is the largest medical display monitor market because it is home to the largest healthcare industry in the world. The increasing public and private investments in the construction of healthcare facilities and procurement of advanced medical equipment and high general awareness regarding diseases and their diagnosis and treatment create a high demand for medical display monitors. Moreover, many of the major medical device manufacturers are operational in the region, which leads to the easy availability of these products in the U.S. and Canada.

Thus, the sale of medical display monitors will boom with the increasing footfall at healthcare facilities and their rapid construction.