Independent laboratories are essentially a service industry, and different companies, although the focus of the testing program is different, but in general, homogenization is still relatively serious. Therefore, in the coastal areas where in vitro diagnostic outsourcing business is more developed, the competition is also fierce, while the central and western regions are basically blank.
Currently there are hundreds of independent medical laboratories in China, mainly concentrated in the developed coastal regions. The main competition includes Guangzhou Goldcorp, Hangzhou Adicon, Dean Diagnostics, and Daan Genetics. Goldcorp is headquartered in Guangzhou, and the former has a market share of more than 20% nationwide, with an extremely fast pace of expansion and around 21 laboratories nationwide. Both Adicon and Diane are headquartered in Hangzhou, and both have a market share of about 15%, with the former's scale and pace of expansion greater than the latter.
Before the 1980s, China's medical diagnostic services were basically provided by the laboratory and pathology departments under the medical institutions, and almost all large and small hospitals had set up laboratory and pathology departments equipped with testing instruments and testing personnel, resulting in a great waste of medical resources. With the development of diagnostic technology and changes in clinical needs, small and medium-sized hospitals due to the limited size and funding, its laboratory and pathology departments can not undertake a more complete medical diagnostic projects, so there is a general phenomenon of small and medium-sized hospitals will be commissioned by the specimens of large hospitals for diagnosis, but large hospitals due to a variety of reasons, can not provide a good socialized medical diagnostic services.
Compared with the services of the laboratory and pathology departments of large hospitals, independent medical laboratories, by virtue of the scale and market-oriented operation, its active door-to-door seamless service and perfect consultation and question-answering services, favored by the customers, so the hospitals have been cooperating with the independent medical laboratories, outsourcing medical diagnostic services to the independent medical laboratories with a higher degree of specialization and scale, and more time and energy to focus on the improvement of their own medical diagnostic services. Hospitals have been cooperating with independent medical laboratories, outsourcing their medical diagnostic services to independent medical laboratories with a higher degree of specialization and scale, and focusing more time and energy on improving their own clinical treatment. For the above reasons, in the mid- to late 1980s, the prototype of non-socialized independent medical laboratories appeared in China, which gained good social and economic benefits, and then a number of independent medical laboratories appeared in different parts of the country, but none of them formed a scale. Until the beginning of this century, the birth of the real domestic chain development to obtain scale advantages of socialized independent medical laboratories.
At present, the domestic independent medical laboratory is still in its infancy, occupying only about 1% of the medical diagnostic services market. The largest independent medical laboratory can only carry out more than 1,000 diagnostic projects, and the development of various regions is also very unbalanced. Compared with the business types and geographical coverage of independent medical laboratories in mature markets, China's third-party medical diagnostic industry still has a large room for growth.