What clinical laboratory market factors are driving these technology improvements and trends?
It’s consolidation of laboratories as such, or labs getting bigger. But also, in a laboratory network, you have to serve laboratories ranging from the very small to the very big and, of course, ideally by using the same reagents or applications. The effect is a consolidation of disciplines. In the past, you had a clear separation among laboratories. But now, everything’s together and is getting integrated into a work flow so that the throughput and turnaround time in the laboratory are optimized. When you speak of disciplines in the lab, do you mean different areas such as clinical chemistry or coagulation or hematology? Yes. Even in, say, immunochemistry, where in the past infectious disease testing was separate from thyroid facility testing, this is now coming together. So, now that there’s this greater consolidation, there are greater demands for one machine to serve for all these various disciplines? Yes. And I mean also optimizing the laboratory as such, where you now have separat
