Despite slowdowns in capital equipment spending and strong pricing pressures, the US patient monitoring device market will grow by over $500 million between 2014 and 2019, reaching more than $2.5 billion by 2019 – a CAGR of almost 5%. Several factors are driving growth in this market, including the need for seamless solutions that can provide monitoring from hospital to home, and the growing adoption of portable and wearable technologies.

At $1.8 billion, Q2 device financing nearly doubled the Q1 total, mainly from an increase in IPOs and early VC rounds, and acquisitions were slightly higher at $4.7 billion. Diagnostics funding also increased to $784 million from Q1's $597 million, and Danaher's monster $13.8 billion buy of life sciences company Pall headlined the second quarter's $15.6 billion total in diagnostics M&A activity.

China’s medical device market is posed to overtake France as the third largest by 2020 and pull even domestically with pharmaceuticals in coming years as government health care reforms put emphasis on diagnostics and prevention.

China’s medical device market is posed to overtake France as the third largest by 2020 and pull even domestically with pharmaceuticals in coming years as government health care reforms put emphasis on diagnostics and prevention.