In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China - Blood Typing Instruments and Reagents VII

3.2.2 Future Development Trend of Blood Typing Instruments

It can be seen from analysis on major blood grouping analyzer-related patent applications published in the 3 years from 2018 to 2021 that benefited from the basically stable original technologies of the industry; domestic enterprises have continuously increased R&D inputs, constantly improved technical innovation capability, made breakthroughs in many technologies, and developed a batch of core components of instruments with independent intellectual property rights through follow-on R&D strategy. Technical researches on automated blood group typing instruments mainly focus on transfer control techniques, grasp control techniques, image processing techniques, interpretation system techniques, module compatibility and coupling, intensification and other aspects at the moment, and it is foreseeable that blood typing instruments will develop towards the direction of further increase in degree of automation of blood typing, improvement of blood typing efficiency, and enhancement of blood typing accuracy.

On the other hand, accompanied with continuous social and economic development and acceleration of aging population, laboratories’ workload along with requirements on accuracy and timeliness has been increasing, and laboratory departments of hospitals have been increasingly relied on test results in terms of monitoring of diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, laboratories of large general hospitals have strong demands for provision of precise and highly efficient test analyzers and automatic comprehensive solutions for laboratories, and integrated pipeline, intellectualization, and bio-safety guarantee will become future trend for technical development of blood typing instruments.

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