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China s basic medical insurance increased dramatically
According to reports, the new rural cooperative medical insurance for urban residents and a larger increase government subsidy standards, government at all levels of urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical insurance subsidy standards: 80 per year per person in 2009 dollars, increased to 120 yuan in 2010, 2011 has increased to 200.
Co-ordinating medical insurance for urban workers, urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical insurance co-ordination of funds raised to the maximum payment limits for the average annual wage of local workers, residents disposable income and rural per capita net income of the country more than six times.
Gradually increase the proportion of hospital reimbursement, the burden on individuals to pay medical costs residents lessened. The new rural cooperative medical insurance for urban residents and hospital reimbursement policy areas the proportion is about 50% before the reform in 2010 increased to 60% this year and strive to reach 70%.
Extend the scope of Medicare reimbursement to the patient by the hospital, but also take into account both minor illness insurance illness. Currently, over 85% of urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical insurance carried out in co-ordinating patient co-ordination in 2009, this proportion is only about 30%.
Currently, over 85% of urban residents and the new rural cooperative medical insurance carried out in co-ordinating patient co-ordination.
Carestream Health care for the elderly health care services to enhance human
Another year the Chung Yeung Festival, in carrying forward the Chinese nation respect and love the old traditional virtues, the more people pay attention to the elderly\\ s health problems. In addition, the development and progress with the times, people seek medical treatment for human services have higher requirements. As the world\\ s largest medical imaging and information technology (IT) company, CarestreamHealth, Inc, Inc. (Carestream Health), a positive response to this demand, for the majority of patients, especially older people to provide more humane care.
Today, China has become the world\\ s most populous country in the elderly, the aging population is facing enormous challenges. Data, to the end of 2010, China\\ s elderly population over 60 years and has reached 1.7765 million, the proportion of the total population 13.26%, and an annual growth rate of 3.3%. Care for the elderly, families and the government has not only the responsibility, but also the whole community, in particular, responsible corporate citizen to participate.
For the elderly, growing with age, the body\\ s major organ system function and structure of degenerative changes occur, many of the dangers of specific diseases and mortality rise with age. Therefore, medical experts suggest that the elderly should be targeted for in-depth examination, early detection and control of common diseases, maintain a healthy body. As a global leader in medical imaging products and solutions, Carestream Health is always the patient\\ s demands, and strive to achieve digital medical imaging, information and intelligence, for the majority of patients, especially elderly doctor convenience.
In terms of products, Carestream Health DR infinite family of products can be described as digital, information and intelligence products representative. \"Magic card\" DRX-1 system is the industry\\ s first wireless DR detector, the product belongs to box wireless device can be placed in any desired location to shoot – whether it is Bucky, a fixed bed check, or bed surface without grid camera, and other difficult shooting angles, allowing patients to feel comfortable. \"Devil\" DRX-Evolution is the function, ease of use, scalability, accuracy, and many set to enhance and create a new era of digital X-rays to the world\\ s first ISO-compliant with the magic card \"DRX-1 perfect combined to achieve unlimited free positioning, automatic positioning, automatic tracking, automatic mode of operation of the intelligence, not only reduces the labor intensity of medical staff to improve hospital efficiency, while fully meet the daily stand, supine X-ray photography needs This patient mobility for elderly patients, the greatly increased comfort during the examination.
In April, the latest CARESTREAMDRX-Nova digital X-ray photography imaging system, the industry\\ s first integrated wireless, the DRX-1 standard digital flat panel detector, a compact device design concept combines Carestream Health superb image processing technology , which can cover all the examination bed, wall stand, wheel chairs, stretchers and other conventional position and special position of the digital photography check to meet clinical needs of any photographer, regardless of the head, chest and abdomen or limbs, bones and other anatomical parts of the body, whether it is upright Bucky, lying check the bed or the various mobility wheelchair, stretcher patients with photography, it can easily meet the demand.
Carestream Health, Li Teng, vice president of Greater China, said: \"Respect is the traditional Chinese virtues of respect, care for the elderly but also take care of our own as a professional supplier of medical imaging products, Carestream Health want health care for the elderly play to their expertise, hold up the elderly with love happy old age. \"
Detection of medical electronic devices to help the pain
For health care, the patient was injured but no more than the specific source of pain can not find or can not describe the pain intensity is more difficult, which makes the diagnosis, assessment and treatment difficult. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers are developing an appropriate solution has the potential to bring medical services to help enhance the sales of the relevant OEM manufacturers.
Researchers are examining the development of a through functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) and support vector machine (SVM), to provide information without the patient\\ s case to determine more precisely the source of pain and intensity of the feasibility of diagnostic equipment. Such a tool will enhance the physician\\ s diagnosis and treatment.
Here is the current challenge for researchers and potential opportunities to explain, published in academic journals PlosOne on.
With severe cognitive or communicative disorders patients – such as the intensive care unit patients or elderly people with dementia – may not provide their own valid information about pain. For such patients, there is not much way to determine the presence or absence of pain. Although there are methods to determine the behavior (such as assessment of facial expressions, voice, body movements), but for action by the paralysis and other diseases affecting the patient may also fail. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a physical-based and do not need to communicate with the patient\\ s pain assessment tools.
Project has not ushered in a breakthrough, but researchers have made some promising results and have begun to medical institutions, hospitals, patients consulting field outlook for this equipment. In addition to helping direct users away, the pain clinic tools for OEM manufacturers and manufacturers of semiconductors and magnetic materials opportunities.
Stanford University researchers demonstrated in a series of highly accurate experimental pain Discovery (up to 80%), and concluded: \"Through fMRI and SVM could not communicate with the test case of those Discovery pain conditions.\" Researchers believe that the next job is to further experiments in the clinic environment.
Successfully reproduce the experimental results not only for the patient, also on the medical device manufacturers to help. Everyone wants to get rid of pain is a common problem, unfortunately, to determine the source of the problem to ensure that the effect is often very difficult to diagnose. Researchers know that people are the source of pain physicians are generally asked not give specific answers, so I hope to develop a tool to solve such problems.
Things remote intelligent health care system is expected to promote
For many chronic diseases, regular on the hospital is no doubt a headache trouble. But now, with the help of networking technology, the patient as long as the open network, you can real-time monitoring of their blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen and other data, and transmit to the other end of the doctors in the network, resulting in timely diagnosis and treatment and guidance. September 7, we follow the reporter went to Nanchang District, Wuxi City, welcome Longqiao Street Community Health Center to learn more about bringing great convenience to the patient\\ s medical care of things remotely intelligent medical service system.
Half past nine, welcome Longqiao Street Community Health Center physician payment and patient health in accordance with the time before the appointment to open the online video. Cao Zhang Lu Yunsheng Village residents had been waiting in front of the computer. Lu Yunsheng this year aged 70, suffering from diabetes and hypertension, the need for regular monitoring of physical health. Gesanchawu line treatment before going to the hospital, which makes Lu Yunsheng very distressed. Now these days, once or twice a month, you can turn on the computer at home, I went to the hospital is equal.
See Dr. Jin computer interface, a video display, X-ray and other imaging data, past medical history resume, text chat interface. Dr. Jin Jianzhong told reporters, before we often say telemedicine, generally only a simple audio or video communication, but the biggest advantage of this system, it can capture real-time parameters of the human body to help doctors analyze data, to determine the physical The health trend, beware of serious illness, sudden illness or incident.
Community Health Center, said Xue Zhijun, deputy director, things remote intelligent health care system is very suitable for monitoring chronically ill health. Now, welcome Longqiao six streets, like the elderly and Lu Yunsheng, need only pay a small fee, you can not go out to enjoy the convenience of a doctor. But all the streets were a total of 4000 chronic, so the next step, the streets will continue to promote the application of this system. Do not go out to get a doctor\\ s treatment and guidance, which was once a distant dream is now truly happened. May not be long for the people in Wuxi, the doctor at home can become the norm.
Carestream Health to lead a new realm of wireless DR
From 2009 launched the \"magic card\" DRX-1, 2010 launch of \"Devil\" DRX-Evolution, to the 2011 CARESTREAMDRX-Nova turned out, CarestreamHealthInc. (Referred to as Carestream Health) has three of the world\\ s leading Wireless DR products, the speed of the frequent introduction of new products, contains high-end technology, the industry\\ s influence on the large, making Carestream Health has introduced a wireless DR products each has become the focus of public attention the incident. Today, Carestream Health DR family of wireless products firmly occupy the market share position. Beneath the surface of the scenery is Carestream Health is committed to digital X-ray radiography of the new changes in technology, leading the field of radiology imaging technology transition to the new wireless realm.
Doctors holding a wireless DR detector side positioning of the patient to take pictures, just a few seconds later, appeared on the computer screen clear radiographic images of patients, doctors accordingly make the most reasonable diagnosis, the patient in a relaxed and comfortable environment complete the diagnostic process. September 2009, Carestream Health introduced the industry\\ s first wireless DR detector – the \"magic card\" DRX-1 system have moved into the major medical institutions, the avant-garde ideas, superior performance, ergonomic design to be doctors and patients with high praise. It is understood that \"magic card\" DRX-1 to create the two first, the world\\ s first wireless cassette-size DR detector, Zhengminghuodong China\\ s first medical equipment, and collected through the network to the Chinese name of the product – the magic card. As the \"magic card\" DRX-1 system is a cassette wireless device can be placed in any desired location to shoot – whether Bucky, check the bed, bed, wheelchair, stretcher, etc., and other difficult shooting angles , so that patients feel comfortable. \"Magic card\" DRX-1 is that it subverts the significance of the birth era of wired DR, CR and DR in the traditional solution to create a third, leading the field of radiation into the wireless era.
After a lapse of eight months, Carestream Health once again force the introduction of new wireless DR paragraph – \"Devil\" DRX-Evolution, it changed not only the product name, but also in function, ease of use, scalability, set to enhance the accuracy and other aspects, creating a new era of digital X-rays. \"Devil\" DRX-Evolution is a highly automated, free combination of precision X-ray equipment, to the world\\ s first ISO-compliant with the magic card \"DRX-1 combination, to achieve unlimited free positioning, automatic positioning, automatic tracking, automatic mode of operation of the intelligence, not only reduces the labor intensity of medical staff to improve hospital efficiency, while fully meet the daily stand, supine X-ray photography needs, which the patient\\ s mobility patients, significantly increased comfort during the examination.
In April this year, Carestream Health, the latest in wireless DR results – CARESTREAMDRX-Nova digital X-ray photography imaging system turned out, it integrates the industry\\ s first wireless, the DRX-1 standard digital flat panel detector, a compact The equipment design concept combines Carestream Health superb image processing technology, which can cover all the examination bed, wall stand, wheel chairs, stretchers and other conventional position and special position of the digital photography check to meet clinical needs of any photographer, regardless of the head, chest abdomen or limbs, bones and other anatomical parts of the body, whether used in outpatient, emergency, pediatrics, or surgery, but also whether it is upright Bucky, lying check the bed or the various mobility wheelchair, stretcher patients with photography, it can easily meet needs.
Carestream Health\\ s Greater China president Liu Jie said: \"Carestream Health has been focusing on wireless DR product development, from the \\ magic card\\ DRX-1 to CARESTREAMDRX-Nova, Carestream Health is always a strategic height, forward-looking vision meet market demand, continued to emerge, the field to a new wireless DR height. \"
Health care information technology to enhance medical services
Medical services is the development trend of information technology. With the rapid development of information technology, more and more hospitals are in the country to accelerate the implementation of information technology-based platform, HIS system as a whole building in order to improve the hospital\\ s service level and core competitiveness. Information not only to enhance the efficiency of doctors, so doctors have more time for patients, but also improve patient satisfaction and trust.
Process social information, our hospital has entered the digital and information age, a large number of medical devices used in hospitals, a variety of hospital management information system and medical clinical information system is universal. Hospital information to enable the hospital changed the workflow and innovation, and to the hospital has been fully developed.
China\\ s health care information technology will present the following characteristics. First, the segmentation of medical information products more competitive advantage. As individual doctors and patients, the diverse needs of increasingly rich, \"large\" or \"small\", include hospitals and medical management system management module of the pattern will be broken, sub-specialization of medical information will be construction of the trend. Second, remote medical consultation will become the bright spot. As the Internet increasingly powerful, telemedicine consultations at all levels of medical units will be strong demand. Third, communities, rural health care information technology unit will become hot. Communities, rural basic health care is the main body of China\\ s implementation of the use of information technology \"minor illness in the community, serious illness in the hospital, recovering back to the community,\" the resident doctor for medical treatment model, effectively reducing the pressure of large hospitals, but also to facilitate the community residents. Fourth, electronic medical records system will become increasingly popular. Electronic medical record is the patient care process has been performed to determine the importance of records related to medical liability, is to be performed based on medical procedures, medical information technology is an important component.
Telemedicine China Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Yesterday telemedicine
The early 2000s, telemedicine entering the country, beginning in 1995, Golden Health Project to promote health information technology in the construction industry, improved medical staff productivity, accelerate the speed of patient treatment, eradication of the three long, one short (registration, fees, dispensary for a long time, a doctor a short time) the shortcomings of an effective solution to the hospital fees, medicines management loopholes.
Exploration in the field of military remote military medical information network, the state established the military health project is the construction of military health system information is one of the three projects. Army won the 2004 One other scientific and technological progress awards. For remote medical consultation, skills training, remote, remote video conferencing, information retrieval library and information applications such as telemedicine for the purpose of military technology of large-scale construction of health.
\"Military Health Network\" is a military construction for the telemedicine network in achieving cross-regional comprehensive medical support, information and dissemination of results of the latest medical technology for the remote station to provide high-quality telemedicine services officers, etc., played a very important the role.
Golden Meditech network, the military health network can grasp the latest information and technology, medical technology, to enhance the strength of the hospital to address the early development of many of China\\ s remote medical problem.
Today, telemedicine
Our telemedicine began relatively late, but development is very rapid, as the core technology of telemedicine computer technology, communication technology, digital technology, medical equipment, hospital information management technologies are close to the international advanced level, with international development process, has accumulated a variety of experiences and lessons learned.
The fundamental role of the hospital information management is to improve health, reduce medical errors, reduce medical costs, it is generally accepted point of view.
In China, public hospitals funded large-scale, information technology and more beginning to take shape, and private and small and medium hospital information construction appears very weak.
Shenzhen is a specialist hospital operated for many years said, \"For private hospitals, survival is the first one, if it can not guarantee the normal operation, the other not to mention everything, so we were always fighting for the resources needed , survival is the pressure we face every day. \" Hospital information system HIS invested to meet the daily work management.
Since reform and opening, continuous development and growth of private hospitals, private hospitals health care system has become an important part. The market capacity, information technology needs, the introduction of the hardware and software updates, a huge market space! Hospital information technology applications of telemedicine, patients will bring more resources, expert resources and technical advantages.
Obviously, to make state-owned and private sharing of information has brought positive results, let the health care industry professionals from a higher altitude to get to know the hospital information construction of the benefits the country, there is a considerable of the way to go.
Future of telemedicine
With the computer technology and the rapid development of telecommunications technology, telemedicine resources can be shared, the medical exchanges can reach a higher level. In Europe, telemedicine as an important aspect of health care reform, health care in remote areas to solve the problem of inadequate resources. In Japan, the development of telemedicine, making the field of domestic and international medical meetings, tele-surgery observation, international remote transmission, etc., have reached a high level.
In recent years, telemedicine with international development. China as the largest developing country, a vast territory, large population and tends to aging, transportation, and economic conditions and the relatively backward development is highly uneven, severe lack of medical care in remote areas, to achieve universal access to health care difficult, and telemedicine in remote areas to solve this problem one of the most economical mode.
Telemedicine is a real demand, everywhere and at all times to improve medical and health care of people\\ s living standards as a new and important indicators. Continue to learn advanced technology, use modern technology to build a \"telemedicine\" in the new era.
As the American futurist Alvin Toff power years ago, predicted: \"The future of medical activities, doctors will face a computer, the screen display from a distance came a variety of information on patient diagnosis and treatment of patients.\"
With the development of IT and other new technologies, the establishment of a unified international standard system, people gradually get used to living in a world full of Internet, all for the development of telemedicine has brought new opportunities.
China refined analysis of major medical equipment market
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As society advances, the medical industry is also developing rapidly, medical devices into the mainstream of modern medical care, more people will become increasingly concerned about the large-scale medical equipment market. Market mainly consists of the following four factors to decide.
A state-based system
Chinese medical market, state-owned hospitals from the brand, strength, size, number of other areas account for an overwhelming advantage. The formation of this situation is because, in China 40 years after the founding of the time, only state-owned hospitals, private hospitals have only recently 20 years was the gradual emergence of private hospitals (Hospital of China\\ s current business license is still strictly controlled by the state) due to the accumulation of 40 years of the brand, people only believe that the large state-owned hospitals, resulting in large hospitals, \"something happens\" (waiting queue for a long time, check the queue for a long time, long hospital queues, see a doctor a short time, check the time is short), the hospital wants to come in small phenomenon with Chinese characteristics. Thus the purchasing power of most medical devices focused on the state-owned large and medium hospitals. country that is a burden and the state-owned hospitals non-profit organization, which does not require hospital turned over profits, but recurrent funding to hospitals, hospital loans from banks more easily. so the hospital for equipment purchases, cost is not very great importance due to medical treatment of patients free choice of hospital, which hospital the relationship between market competition and therefore a large inter-hospital medical equipment procurement has obvious psychological comparisons. the same area, a hospital to buy a device, several other soon will buy, and try to buy a higher grade because of hospital state-owned, and therefore must follow the government\\ s administrative divisions to manage, so the medical device market is broken down into small units of the provincial market, the market has some of the various provincial relatively closed, and thus different parts of the purchasing habits, the price are different.
2 decision-making structure: the core of collective decision-making Dean
Because the hospital is a state-owned, so the purchase decision-making structure for the Presidency as the core of collective decision-making. Equipment procurement is president of the core decision-makers rather than the use of sections (ie the President who has a monopoly on the purchase of equipment), while Dean not the technical details of equipment is the solution, so the technical details of the impact of purchasing decisions are not large, only a few key elements will work, so the grade of major medical equipment, marketing, positioning and guiding the selection criteria is very important because the hospital is state, the President will have a lot of senior management, such as the School of Medicine, Health Bureau, the provincial leaders of cities and counties, although the core decision-makers is the president, but must respect the views of superiors, and therefore the government relations in the equipment sales in the process of very important role in addition to Dean, the hospital there is an important leader: party secretary. different hospitals the influence of party secretary different times greater than the power of party secretary Dean, sometimes compete with each other sometimes is weaker Although the use of departments do not have the core decision-making power, but after all the high-tech medical equipment, the President also deterred policy-making, he will seek the views of user groups, while the hospital\\ s academic because each discipline has its own National Institute of Clinical , provinces and municipalities learn, there is a corresponding circle of the \"big names\" of \"experts\", so these people will become opinion leaders in the procurement of equipment. major companies competing to do the work of experts, in order to take advantage of the voice. Equipment Division is a device procurement of specific operations department, equipment, equipment procurement chief in the role of decision-making quite a lot in making the grade equipment, supporting decision-making, especially the maintenance program decision-making are very large say in the products of technology exchange, the user visits, Business negotiations are often arranged by the Equipment Division and many hospitals have a vice president in charge of equipment and this role in the project\\ s influence in decision-making are very different. In general vice president is subordinate to the President\\ s opinion, if he has a very strong background, you may compete openly with the President, such as happened to the vice president was born in the use of sections of the device, then the influence purchasing decisions in a very large clinical benefit indirectly in the procurement decision-making departments also have an influence, especially the leading hospital departments, with high academic standards and treatment of income, the President will be great respect for the views of the department director if the equipment of a technical work of the clinical departments to carry out a very important significance, the department director position may affect the project decision-making initiative.
3 administration and configuration of the license fees
State for all the hospital charges are administrative fees. This enormous impact on the hospital\\ s purchasing behavior. Types of equipment with high fees, hospital willing to purchase, and the price is not sensitive; otherwise purchase a small amount of price-sensitive. States to prevent duplication of investment, the configuration of the number of large medical equipment have a unified plan, each region according to population and economy, traffic conditions to give a quota, and the trial configuration permits issued, only to get the configuration permits the hospital before they can purchase equipment. the result is a evidence is hard to find, and the apparent market is far less than the actual market demand due to a hard card, which permits access to the configuration of hospitals tend to buy high-end equipment \"step.\"
4 procurement: tender
The state where the equipment must be imported through international bidding. Requires at least three international tender bid before bid opening, to the lowest bid evaluation, bid after the actual float up to 15% of the contract price due to the presence of an international tender, making the operation of the project. \" Man screw, \"adds a lot of obstacles, but also increased the number of winning means the relevant circumstances in this regard will be individually analyzed in detail later, if the domestic procurement, you can not through an international tender. general hospital proposed standard will be adopted, although style of operation vary widely in different hospitals, but the ability to control the president of the overall results than the much higher international tender.
Operators in rural health care into the medical market-friendly entry point for mobile
Perhaps many people that the hospital is the first thought of the crowded wards, crowded corridors, but with the development of mobile health, the future will see people in the hospital the doctor took the iPad and other terminals, methodically recording the patient information another round of the scene.
Today, 3G technology, so that ambulance staff on the high-definition video can be obtained by moving a clear, fast remote guidance, and thus no longer miss the treatment of the "golden half-hour"; the emergence of mobile medical diagnostic equipment, so that community physicians can ready access to major hospitals, well-known doctors of remote consultation; and community health information platform for the use of health information is for Palm, appointment registration and other services become a reality.
"Regional collaborative care demonstration project" 10 months or to promote
Recently, RNCOS s survey, the United States, currently has 72% of physicians in the use of smart phones, these phones have over 10,000 mobile medical software. The industry is expected, based on the use of these mobile medical software, medical industry in 2011 the overall global mobile revenues to reach 500 to 60,000,000,000 U.S. dollars.
It is reported that China s "e" second five "plan" also specifically deployed on the mobile health care project, which is remote from medical care, community health, rural health and other aspects of information technology to enhance pilot and demonstration projects and mobile health promotion the intensity. In a recent industry conference on China Mobile Health, the Ministry of Information, Deputy Director Dong Baoqing promoting revealed major national special "regional collaborative health care service demonstration project" is expected to begin in October this year to promote, will become the focus of mobile medical development of the object.
In this regard, vice president of China Institute of Communications Leng believes that: "At present, China s mobile health care industry is still in its infancy, to make the move full activation and development of health care, but also operators, medical institutions, information systems provider, medical providers and application developers the joint efforts of the whole industry chain. "mobile medical industry in promoting the development of the industry chain parties to be full of business model and business model innovation to achieve a reasonable division of labor. Especially for telecom operators, mobile medical services, solutions and good development platform is very important.
"From the current situation in the mobile telecom operators in the health industry has become a so-called dumb pipe ." China Mobile Research Institute chief scientist Xu Liqun that "signs of life from the data provided only a dumb pipe into the promotion the scale of the development of mobile health services smart pipe , carriers also need to have vital signs data and to provide continuous situational data collection, transmission, storage and distribution capacity on demand; some intelligent signal processing, analysis, identification and integration capabilities ; conditionally necessary to develop and provide solutions and application services capabilities. "
Operators benefit rural health care as an entry point
As the mobile medical industry an integral part of the chain in recent years, telecom operators are actively involved in and promote mobile medical applications. For example, China Mobile is building a set of government, hospitals, community, the public in one set of information technology solutions; China Unicom set up a "cloud storage" service platform for medical and health data collection, transmission and retrieval, and mobile medical care positioning, real-time vital signs signal transmission; China Telecom in China launched more than 200 mobile medical hospital pilot.
It is worth mentioning that the rural market has become operators in the mobile medical application entry point. It is understood that the current China Mobile and China s 13 provinces have launched a "new rural cooperative" (the new rural cooperative medical) cooperation, including through 12580, mobile newspaper, radio and other means for the city portal to provide patients with appointment registration services, provide new rural medical authentication, payment, reimbursement and information inquiry services; China Telecom, the following hospitals for the township and rural health service network, providing medical services for the county level of government departments, including financial management , the Senate co-management, compensation management, configuration, maintenance, service, including statistical analysis.
Germany: International medical device market, “leader”
German-made cars and machinery for its excellent quality has come to dominate the world for many years. Little is known, the German medical device market is the world leader in medical devices become an important pillar of the German export economy. German production of a wide variety of medical products, from the injection equipment, orthopedic appliances, to highly sophisticated electronic measuring instruments, earning profits each year nearly 200 million euros, of which € 12 billion is export earnings. Cologne Institute for Economic Research figures show, the German medical device industry, 8% of the sales profits are used for investment in research, this ratio than the average of other advanced industrial countries twice. Because of this, Germany in the medical device new product research and development with remarkable results. In the past 15 years, the German company to apply for a medical device patents doubled. Trends in the global healthcare market is generally good, but Germany will face more and more competitors, especially South Korea and China.