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World Health Organization statistics, in 2020, more than 60 years of age or older population will double in 2000. Aging global population directly affects the national health care spending, the economy is more developed in the United States and Europe, health care spending accounts for about 15% of GDP, up to one trillion U.S. dollars of magnitude, the United States, for example: in 2007 the U.S. health care expenditures amounted to $ 2 trillion, and with the aging population trend, 2012, the nation\\ s health care spending will reach 3.1 trillion U.S. dollars. In addition, the standard of living makes people\\ s expectations for improving health care continues to increase. These are made in health care spending growth state.
As a developing country, China, health care spending accounted for GDP3.7% from 1995 to 2007, rising 5.6% in 2010, the Chinese government announced the \"Healthy China 2020\" program, put forward in the next ten years for all China residents to provide basic health care, that the Chinese health care costs that soared to 13 percent of GDP. China\\ s economic boom and the government\\ s massive investment in health care industry driven health care market to grow rapidly.
With the electronics, semiconductor technology, there is supporting the development of electronic products in the health care market share continues to expand. According to market research firm Databeans statistics, the global medical electronics spending growth of 15% per year, medical applications, semiconductor consumption increased by 11% per year. 2012 Medical Electronics with semiconductor output close to 50 billion, including home and the fastest growing portable market, the annual compound growth rate of 16%. Assisted rehabilitation, treatment devices, surveillance / sensors and telemetry devices, consumer electronics medical market has become the main driver of growth.
In the electronic technology is so advanced today, when our hands has a wide range of electronic products, but with health care-related electronic products are a handful, as Freescale Semiconductor senior vice president of sales and marketing HenriRichard said: \"difficult to confidence that our home is the most advanced medical devices scales. This should be changed. \"
New needs, new ideas continue to emerge, a variety of advanced technology has been together for medical electronics innovation. Freescale Semiconductor is committed to long-term sensor technology, MCU technology, RF technology, and many other advanced technology research and application, which makes children demanding in today\\ s complex medical electronics market, has inherent advantages. In particular, medical electronics applications MCU, requires not only high set and low power consumption, but also take with a variety of technologies, equipment, interface, interoperability of the task, used in medical electronics is a new MCU devices have high hopes.
KinetisK50 medical electronics micro-controllers set new standards for measuring and monitoring
March 2011 release of the K50 micro-controllers for continuous monitoring of a variety of connectivity options, and portable medical equipment, instrumentation and industrial test and measurement applications provide an integrated and reliable measurement of analog signal processing engine. K50 series built ARMCortexM4 core, 64-pin package, providing 128KB flash, 10K starting amount of the grant price of only $ 3.58.
With Kinetis combination of scalability, ease of use of software and modular hardware development tools, K50 series is designed to bring the extraordinary degree of freedom. K50 series (including K50, K51, K52 and K53 four sub-series, a total of 40 devices) Kinetis portfolio with more than 200 other microcontrollers. Moreover, a large software ecosystem enables developers to freely choose their preferred IDE / software compiler.
K50 series of unique integrated measurement engine allows reliable external analog signal processing, and does not require expensive additional components, thus reducing development costs.
Beijing to strengthen the monitoring of medical device adverse events
Beijing and the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau and Drug Administration have jointly issued the \"Beijing <medical device adverse event monitoring and re-evaluation of management practices (Trial)\" Regulations \"(hereinafter referred to as\" Implementing Rules \"), clearly can not guarantee safe and effective for medical equipment, medical devices can revoke a certificate of registration to make the decision.
\"Regulations\" clear, medical equipment manufacturers medical device adverse event monitoring is the responsibility of the principal, should be equipped with special (and) staff to take on the business of medical device adverse event monitoring and re-evaluation. Medical device manufacturers should take the initiative to the medical equipment business enterprises, medical institutions and other users to place their products collected all suspected medical device adverse events, and the establishment include sudden, mass emergency medical device adverse event handling mechanism. Various medical institutions at all levels in the configuration (part-time) personnel bear the body of medical device adverse event monitoring, we must also include the establishment of emergency, mass emergency medical device adverse event handling mechanism.
Of serious injury or death has occurred of adverse events, and public safety and health threats has approved the listing of the first class, Class II medical devices by the relevant departments and experts to carry out further evaluation, according to the re-evaluation findings, drug approval by the regulatory authorities can order medical equipment to make amendments to the product labels, brochures and other treatment, can not guarantee safe and effective medical devices, medical devices can revoke a certificate of registration to make the decision.
Chinese will become the development trend of China s medical device industry is one
High-tech medical equipment industry as one of the most promising industry in recent years, as China\\ s investment in new medical reform, population aging and health care services, the degree of emphasis on the deepening of China\\ s medical device market will maintain rapid growth. Currently the total global pharmaceutical market, medical devices accounted for 42% of the total scale, while the total pharmaceutical market in China accounted for only 14% of the size of China\\ s medical device industry with a bright future.
In 2010, China\\ s medical device market growth rate of 23%, the market scale reached 120 billion yuan. First quarter of 2011, China\\ s total operating income of 1.961 billion yuan, an increase of 40.06%. By 2015, China\\ s entire medical instruments and equipment market is expected to double, reaching $ 53.7 billion, the Chinese medical device industry compound annual growth rate will remain at 20% -30%, industry has great potential.
China\\ s medical device industry has great potential mainly in two aspects: First, people care rehabilitation needs of the rigidity of medical devices for medical devices as well as national efforts to support technology innovation continued to increase, will be the rapid development of China\\ s medical device industry, the fundamental driving force; Second, the rapid development of computer technology, medical field of information technology and networking led to the image, digital and other growth in demand for sophisticated medical equipment, medical equipment manufacturers to bring some of the market space; Third, in to vigorously promote the health reform, the development of basic health care context, the market for medical equipment, instruments, materials, demand will continue to grow, primary health care sector is an important market for medical devices. County-level hospitals across the country and more than 80,000 township hospitals, the equipment purchase, renovation, replacement of the huge demand gap.
Analysts pointed out that the consulting industry is still common, the future of China\\ s medical device industry will show the four major trends: First, automation, automated synthesis and precise operation of medical equipment more and more attention, such as medical equipment assembly, laboratory automation and electronic assembly, etc.; Second, the Chinese-based, Chinese medical device combination products will become a trend, such as digital diagnostic medicine, it is through the intelligent analysis, interpretation and diagnosis of single TCM; three, small, miniaturized medical devices with easy to use, fast, etc., were some of the test can be conducted at any time, saving time and space; four widely used software-based medicine, it is in the pharmaceutical industry sales and management information systems will be widely used, medical software become indispensable to modern medicine and medical equipment industries.
General advice is still released the \"2011 China Medical Device Industry Analysis and Development Forecast Report\" shows, along with medical expenses continue to increase, rising levels of consumer awareness of health awareness and emphasis will be to promote the deepening development of the industry an important driving force, development of new medical industry to inject new vitality into China\\ s medical device industry, there is a big space for development.
“Small devices” to “great care”
Chinese Academy of medical devices and Foshan Alliance, \"small devices\" to \"great care\"
Foshan\\ s medical device industry usher in the spring. Yesterday morning, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Medical Device Industry Association, Foshan City, formally signed jointly set up industrial technology alliance, strategic alliance for five years, the two will integrate their resources, and research institutes affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Devices Association Foshan enterprises Relying together to build medical materials, medical devices, medical equipment, technology development and industrialization, personnel training, technical services in one of the technological innovation platform. Foshan on the medical device industry insiders said that Foshan medical device industry will be \"small device\" began to \"big medicine\" forward.
Research priorities and Buddhist enterprises docking
It is reported that since 2009, the Chinese Academy of Sciences on and Foshan signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to incomplete statistics, the city hospital is currently being implemented in a number of cooperation projects reached 500, Chinese Academy of Sciences scientific and technological achievements to the cooperative enterprise, Foshan sales revenue totaled more than 130 billion yuan, Foshan City, and related industries to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises play a important role in promoting, creating a comprehensive strategic cooperation into a new city hospital.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Medical Devices Industry Association, Foshan City, the agreement signed by the requirements of CAS will from time to time in the medical device R & D organization related to Foshan research institutes at the national, provincial and city authorities at all levels to apply common project and research and development of scientific and technological achievements and patented technologies, the priority for local businesses with the transfer of Foshan and docking, and sharing of resources.
\"CAS has training advantage, they will be based on actual needs of enterprises in Foshan organize different types of short-term training courses or seminars.\" Foshan Medical Device Industry Association, Wong Wai Ming introduced Foshan related industries such help to improve the quality of medium-sized technical personnel with large training seminars, held at least once a year. Meanwhile, the Association will also participate in the medical device industry backbone enterprises of industrial technology building strategic alliances, business development and alliances needed to provide the necessary supporting measures and when the technology industry services and other services.
It is reported that Foshan Medical Device Industry Association will regularly survey the industry and business technology needs, technical cooperation between the two sides provide valuable information and coordinate the relationship between the companies and make more targeted training seminars. While the two sides will jointly apply for state and local technology and finance projects to make cooperation and greater access to government financial support.
Guangzhou Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said executive vice president Huang Ningsheng hope the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the subsequent scientific and technological achievements of medical device industry, Matchmaking, Foshan, Chinese Academy of Sciences of entrepreneurs to research and management with key in-depth exchanges, find the entry point to strengthen cooperation and promote medical device industries and technological achievements transfer, conversion.
Medical equipment, \"weight\" to \"technology\"
This year, Foshan Medical Device Industry Association through \"the situation, Foshan City, medical device companies\\ research found that there Foshan financing medical device companies, business costs, an urgent need to accelerate the technological transformation of traditional and innovative products and other issues. \"Foshan medical device industry started late because of medical device regulation, the development of a weak foundation, a small medical device companies, and more, casual and low-level competition, the phenomenon has not been a fundamental change.\" Insiders pointed out that although the rapid development of medical devices, Foshan, but accelerate the advancement of the industry\\ s technological innovation capability, enhance medical device R & D Combination, for its rapid transformation and upgrading and further development, has become necessary.
Wong Wai Ming that Foshan Medical Device Industry Association formed an alliance with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, helps to spread the focus to continuously improve the overall level of the medical device industry, and promote industry innovation and development, promotion of local health care industry\\ s transformation, leading medical device industrial transformation and upgrading.
\"Foshan medical device companies through strategic alliances with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, by the weight of medical devices into the technology.\" Association recommended supervisor made alliance, Wu, president of Foshan Guangshun all, so vividly points to the Union of Foshan Medical Equipment The importance of the industry.
Wu said the whole, by strengthening cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foshan medical device industry will achieve results with the Chinese Academy of existing docking, to form a good Foshan medical device industry technology innovation chain, making the whole industry to increase the technical content, overall ability to improve from the previous \"small device\" to \"great care\" to magnificent changes.
\"Dances with Wolves\\ first sharpened teeth
Statistics show that in 2008 China\\ s medical device market of 900 billion yuan, accounting for 45% of the total global market; two years, will reach 120 billion yuan, grew by 23%. According to experts predict that in the next few years, China will replace Japan as the world\\ s second largest medical device market.
China\\ s current medical equipment and more monopolized by foreign brands. \"Now to do more advanced surgical patients, some high-end medical equipment are foreign products.\" Wong Wai Ming said at the signing ceremony, the local infusion of medical equipment is only skin tubes, syringes and other disposable supplies, high-end medical equipment to be monopoly of foreign companies, and now high-end foreign medical device companies are preparing to medical devices, the low-end products into the market.
Wong Wai Ming that Foshan local medical device companies must take advantage of this strategic platform alliance, Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly develop high-end medical equipment to form high-quality manufacturing technology innovation and talent echelon teams, and training related to the introduction of senior technical personnel, academicians and experts hired Professor project leader, to strengthen high-technology research and development, the gradual shift from the introduction of export, to \"Dances with Wolves\" position.
\"Dances with Wolves, we must first sharpened their teeth.\" Huangning Sheng said, Foshan have a fairly good manufacturing industries and a large number of pragmatic entrepreneurs who attach great importance to this cooperation; and that the medical device industry with the Foshan Association This partnership will make Foshan medical device companies is more worn teeth sharp, in the medical device market with more competitive.
Smart Healthcare on the road
By the Ministry led the development of the \"Internet of Things\" second five \"development plan\" will soon be issued, will focus on supporting intelligent industry, agriculture, intelligent, smart logistics, smart transportation, smart grid, smart green, smart security, medical and intelligence the field of intelligent home nine. Smart Healthcare as practical, close to the people\\ s livelihood, the more robust market demand one of the areas, with the integration of two in-depth, networking, cloud computing, the rapid development of mobile Internet, and began the outbreak of …
Into health care with the development trend of intelligent
Internet of Things technology will be widely used in surgical equipment, ICU, hospital and convalescent home care, the smart combination of wireless medical technology, barcode RFID, Internet of Things technology, mobile computing, data fusion technology, will further enhance the medical treatment process efficiency and service quality, enhance the level of integrated management of the hospital, monitoring the work of wireless technology to achieve comprehensive solutions to change and modern digital medical model, intelligent medical and health management, hospital information systems, problems and difficulties, and provide substantially reflect high degree of sharing of medical resources, reduce public health costs.
Through electronic medical and RFID technology can make things a lot of work to implement a wireless health monitoring technology, and telemedicine and self-care, timely collection and a high degree of information sharing can alleviate the shortage of resources, the dilemma of unequal distribution of resources, reduce the public health costs.
Things to rely on technology, the hospital assets, blood, medical waste, hospitals sterile and other management, pharmaceutical production, through the implementation of networking technology for the production process, market liquidity and the patient\\ s full range of drug testing.
Things to rely on communication and application platform technologies, including real-time pay and on-line diagnostics, online pathology analysis, exchange of equipment, etc.; to implement home security monitoring, patients received a variety of real-time information.
Through the Internet of Things technology to implement a disaster site medical data collection, including the interconnection of various medical devices, especially because of secondary disasters caused by the disaster, through the unity of things to achieve on-site resource scheduling.
Intelligent networking technology based on the medical doctor to make it easy, give a simple example: The patient to the hospital, just swipe the card on the self-service machine, you can complete the registration; to any hospital, doctors enter the patient ID number, and immediately see all the health information before, check data; with sensors on the body, doctors will be able to keep abreast of the patient\\ s heartbeat, pulse, temperature and other vital signs, if abnormal, with intelligent medical system will be connected warning to alert patients with timely medical treatment, treatment methods and other information will be sent to help patients with treatment time for the gold …
Development of intelligent medical
The development of intelligent medical divided into seven levels: first, business management systems, including hospital charges and drug management systems; second electronic medical records system, including patient information, image information; Third, clinical applications, including computer physician order entry system ( CPOE), etc.; Fourth, chronic disease management system; five regional health information exchange system; six clinical decision support systems; seven public health and hygiene systems. Overall, China is in the first and second stage to the third stage of the development stage, has not established a true sense of the CPOE, mainly the lack of valid data, data standards are not unified, the lack of clinical background with suppliers, from standards to practical applications is also a lack of standard guidelines. China wants from the second stage to the fifth stage, involving many industry standards and data exchange standard form, which is in need of improvement in the future.
In the remote intelligent health care, domestic development faster, more advanced hospitals in the application of mobile information technology in fact has come to the front. For example, medical information can be achieved, the patient information, disease information and other real-time recording, transmission and processing use, making within the hospital and between hospitals, through networking, real-time, effective sharing of relevant information, which is for remote medical experts consultation, referral hospitals, etc. can play a good supporting role, mainly due to the advance of the policy level and technical level of support. But the lack of long-term operation, the lack of scale, cluster-based industrial development, in addition to facing high costs, safety and privacy issues, this is also to stimulate future intelligent medical
The future direction of intelligent medical
Internet of Things technology for the medical field, through the digital, visual mode, limited health care resources to enable more people to share. From the current perspective of the development of medical information, with community-based health care, health-oriented development is increasingly evident, through radio frequency equipment and other related terminal equipment in the home for signs of the real-time tracking and monitoring of information, through effective things, can achieve sub-health hospital patients or the patient\\ s real-time diagnosis and health alert, which effectively reduce and control the occurrence and development of disease. In addition, the complex networking technology in the pharmaceutical and medication management aspects of the application process will also play a significant role.
With the development of mobile Internet, the future of health care to the individual, moving in the direction of development, by 2015 more than 50% of mobile phone users use mobile medical applications, such as smart capsules, smart wrist, intelligent health monitoring products will be widely used, with smart handheld devices and sensors to effectively measure and transmit health data.
Next few years, China will surpass the size of the smart medical market of $ 10 billion and involve a wide range of peripheral industries, equipment and product variety. Real start of this market, its impact will not be limited to the medical services industry itself, will directly touch including network providers, system integrators, wireless equipment vendors, telecommunications carriers, including the interests of the chain, thus affecting the telecommunications industry are a layout.
The outbreak of medical information meet
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It is reported that major national special \"regional collaborative care demonstration project\" is expected in October this year after promotion, the development of mobile health care will become the focus of the object.
According to the Ministry of Information, Deputy Director Dong Baoqing advance, the \"e\" second five \"plan\" specifically deployed on the mobile health care project, from telemedicine, community health, rural health information technology to enhance several aspects of pilot demonstration projects and mobile health promotion efforts. Dong Baoqing mobile health care known as the \"crown jewel.\"
Operators began to layout
Chinese Academy of Engineering Wu He Quan said the U.S. FDA was July 21, 2011 issued draft principles of mobile medical applications. FDA thus inform manufacturers, distributors and other bodies on how FDA intends to use its authority to select software applications on mobile platforms, specifically FDA intends to use the mobile application types.
Wu He Quan is expected in 2015 the world will have at least 500 million smart phone users to use health care applications. China Telecom (quotes, information, comments) Chief Engineer, Ministry of hosts, government and enterprise customers to provide the data show that in 2011 the global mobile market will reach $ 60 billion health care, the size of the domestic market during the year is expected to nearly $ 2 billion yuan.
Insiders said that with the aging trend of increasing domestic, medical care is difficult to alleviate the short period of time. And with 3G communications technology maturity and popularity of mobile medical focus will be the Ministry of Health project. The U.S. FDA has activities for the national health information technology movement direction.
China Mobile (quotes, information, comments), China Unicom (600050), China Telecom has all the relevant high-level health care industry at the First Conference of China Mobile, said in the \"second five\" focus on the development of mobile medical career. According to reports, mobile health in the country at the initial stage, beginning in 2010 ushered in the outbreak period.
General Manager of China Mobile Group\\ s customers, said Dai Zhong, China Mobile has been carried out jointly with the University of Cambridge Research mobile medical information, and released in May 2011 White Paper, the Telecommunications Research Institute set up a dedicated mobile medical project team is currently In more than 20 provinces through 12580, phone WAP, portals and other cities to carry out unlimited appointment register. Provinces under the branches to try to 3G technology, networking technology to provide users with real-time inquiry, health monitoring, medical advice and so on.
In addition, China Unicom set up a \"cloud storage\" service platform for medical and health data collection, transmission and retrieval, as well as mobile medical aid positioning, real-time vital signs signal transmission; China Telecom in China launched more than 200 mobile medical hospital pilot and medium-sized hospitals get high marks.
Ministry of Health Informatization Leading Group Office of the Deputy Director, National Science and Technology major projects team of experts Gao Jie said the mobile medical rapid development to meet the current China\\ s medical industry trends and health reform direction, to facilitate medical information on scheduling and tracking, to address the medical treatment is difficult and unexpected provide an effective means of disease control.
Chain far-reaching benefits
Large mobile medical purposes, Wu He Quan said, the First Hospital of Zhejiang Province, in the province with the help of mobile medical achieve more than 14,000 cases of expert consultation, the ICU mortality decreased an average of 11.6%. Mobile medical outlook is good.
Experts point out that the mobile medical market launch, will drive the network providers, system integrators, telecom operators, suppliers of medical equipment to upgrade the common interest of the chain.
According to reports, the U.S. draft guidelines for mobile medical applications for mobile platforms is referred to with or without commercial wireless handheld computing platform, such as the iPhone and other smart phone or PDA. In the more mature UK mobile medical, patients can use Vodafone\\ s 3G mobile video consulting a doctor. In Japan, the telecom operators to provide users and medical institutions to establish a common platform for collection and distribution of life parameters. Mobile health care has now become a key entry point of things.
Hong Yuan Securities (000,562) software and computer industry researcher Hu Ying believes that the medical information technology is still in the hospital information management phase, the level of investment there is a big gap with the developed countries, policies to promote the new round, the next few years, health care IT total investment of 26.4% compound annual growth rate.
A mobile medical service involving shares of listed companies are the Silver River shares (300,020), iFLYTEK (002 230), Neusoft Group (600 718) and UF Software (600588) and other companies.
Shanghai Jiaotong University School of remote ECG monitoring center academic leaders Guju Kang has revealed, Shanghai, Shenyang, Jinan, Taiyuan, Chongqing, Wuhan and Datong, the city has taken the lead in Sanya eight pilot remote ECG monitoring. Local governments have given financial support. In addition to building software systems, hardware purchase, the mobile medical service fee may be mobile operators, hospitals, software business interests into focus.
Snatch a mobile medical services
Guju Kang introduced mobile phone services with similar medical services, the user is equipped with hardware and software can be achieved after ECG, respiration, blood pressure signal acquisition, the key step is the physiological signal into a digital hardware signal, after which or by phone computer transmits the signal. Call charges are the same as phone, mobile medical services in the glycemic index may have delivery fees, transfer fees, blood pressure index, mobile communications, software and other operators may be divided into fees from the model.
Remote sensing detection is the more mature mobile medical form, can be detected on a screen more than the patient\\ s ECG. A wireless detection software can detect ultra-Central 100 dynamic disease. Equipment with a 24-hour care for patients. Family or individual can purchase hardware. According to reports from Taiwan for personal sales price of the remote heart monitoring equipment set up to 60,000 yuan. Qinhuangdao Conde medical equipment provided by the domestic price of about 6000 per set.
According to Shanghai in 2011 for the 1350 mobile home community physicians with remote sensing equipment, Qinhuangdao community to achieve more than 60 mobile medical services for families, Huzhou City, related companies began mass production for mobile medical with the detection of watches.
Insiders pointed out that the brightest mobile medical services in the capital, will bring new medical services of benefit distribution.
Cardiovascular disease is the key
National Cardiovascular Center Expert Committee, Vice Chairman Wang Wen introduced Chinese Hypertension League, the incidence of cardiovascular disease from China in 2006 rose rapidly, becoming the biggest killer, if you take strong control measures, 2020 it may decrease the turning point. Currently there are 350 million people a year die of cardiovascular disease, more than 50 million people died of sudden cardiac death, the treatment situation is grim, but the relative lack of treatment intensity.
Ministry of Health, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Office of the Deputy Director, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Fuwai Hospital, chief physician Fletch said mobile medical services in communities, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease is significant.
Remote medical care now more mature technologies in remote blood pressure, oxygen, sleep disorders, breathing, blood sugar, such as EEG monitoring, through dynamic, real-time tracking, so that monitoring results more reliable. Department of Cardiology, Peking University People\\ s Hospital, Dr. Xu, director of electrophysiology original that ECG wireless central monitoring software for real-time, dynamic monitoring, about 40% of the number of inter-provincial subjects, the most long-distance up to 1800km, the longest time monitoring 8 months, cardiovascular disease prevention, disaster relief, military promising medical applications.
Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, deputy director of Luxi Lie that the mobile medical development is huge. Increased domestic aging, promote cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease increased investment at the same time, a variety of sleep disorders, the increasing number of mental disorders, but also will promote the promotion of mobile medical applications. It is reported that in 2011, the Government per capita grants for prevention and treatment of hypertension will increase to $ 25.
Wang predicts that China in 2011 on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, approximately $ 20 billion direct investment and indirect investment of approximately $ 50 billion and U.S. $ 286.6 billion over the same period compared to the input, there is still great room for improvement. Mobile medical development will be promoted.
Following the Neusoft Group (600,718) year to 114.1 million yuan to complete the largest amount of medical information in the field after the merger, Kingdee International (quotes, information, reviews) (00268.HK)\\ s Shanghai Kingdee health software in August 1 to around 1.2 billion acquisition of Guangzhou Hui signed a 75% stake through the computer. After the acquisition, Kingdee International will continue to increase to 81.48% holding in Guangzhou Hui Tong stake. Insiders pointed out that the medical information market mergers and acquisitions heating up.
Previously, Kingdee health through the acquisition of Shanghai Branch of China Qi-efficient access to the healthcare industry, and this acquisition, Guangzhou Hui Tong has a digital hospital and electronic medical records, mobile medical, digital chronic disease, rural health information technology, and medical treatments regulatory solutions.
Chang, general manager of Kingdee medical column, said the new medical reform started in 2009, the Chinese medical and health information technology industry needs and development potential. With the health care IT information increasingly competitive market, market integration also will be strengthened. Accelerating health information technology business, roots health care industry, an industry focus.
Insiders said Neusoft Group, Kingdee through mergers and acquisitions, will enable customers and business resources to further integrate and expand the development space for their own medical information.
It is reported that Neusoft Group acquired the letter in addition to looking Haikang nearly 20 years of medical experience in the design, but also has the country\\ s 500 or so hospital customers, including nearly 200 top three hospitals, Neusoft Group to be competitive with foreign manufacturers such as IBM . At present, Neusoft Group and UF Software (600588), Kingdee two major international software companies in the medical information management services, the formation of intense competition.
Hong Yuan Securities (000,562) studies suggest that the domestic production of medical information technology and software vendors about 500, as yet formed a unified industry standard and region segmentation, large, medium, small enterprises accounted for 15%, respectively, 60%, 25% , market concentration is low. Financial strength, expand market share through mergers and acquisitions of companies in the healthcare information technology market is expected to obtain a larger space for development.
China s total imports and exports in 2011 will exceed 150 billion yuan Yi Xie
First half of 2011, the average monthly export volume of China\\ s medical equipment was 11.89 billion U.S. dollars, the highest monthly value of exports in June reached $ 1.351 billion, growth of 4.41%. From the trade point of view, accounting for 56.59% of general trade, processing trade accounted for 38.12%, compared with little change in 2010.
In addition, according to informed medical network statistics, first half of 2011, China\\ s medical equipment amounted to $ 12.051 billion imports and exports, up 58.15 percent, of which exports $ 7.134 billion, an increase of 57.34%; imports amounted to 4.917 billion U.S. dollars, up 59.34%.
It is not difficult to see the first half of China\\ s medical equipment to maintain a larger surplus in foreign trade, export growth was slightly lower than import growth by 2 percentage points, the yuan continues to appreciate the impact of export profits more and more obvious.
And the whole first half of 2011 China\\ s medical equipment to maintain a larger surplus in foreign trade, export growth was slightly lower than import growth by 2 percentage points, the cumulative trade surplus amounted to $ 2.217 billion, but the trade surplus compared with the same period in 2010 reducing the $ 841 million.
Merchants who have predicted the medical equipment, medical devices in China in 2011 if the product can maintain existing market share and expanded internationally, then, is expected to achieve 15% annual export growth, import growth will be higher than exports, the trade surplus is expected to narrowing. Then in 2011 China\\ s total import and export of medical devices will exceed $ 25 billion.
Looking second half of 2011, the scarcity of resources in the world and domestic economic inflation, grain, cotton, chemical products, water, electricity, gas and other raw materials and power prices showed a rising trend will result in some disruption of production activities, not timely delivered to foreign customers. Some companies now general increase in labor costs by 10% to 20%, which is also part of the international order will result in lower labor costs to ASEAN and other countries and regions. Generally denominated in U.S. dollars for China\\ s medical device companies, since the difference depends on the exchange rate has long been a larger profit margin is generally small, RMB appreciation will undoubtedly bring more of their losses, the future of competition in the industry and the export price risk will be higher. At the same time, imports will expand import and export of China\\ s medical device industry, the second half of 2011, balance of trade priorities.
Domestic medical device companies force high-end market
China\\ s medical device market in recent years rapid development, the scale has reached 100 billion yuan, however, the global medical device market has already exceeded $ 300 billion for the domestic market of more than 20 times. The next few years, the global medical device market will be 4% to 6% growth rate.
Menacing giant beachhead overseas to the domestic market, \"going out\" cross-border business wins food has become an inevitable choice. However, in the \"going out\" process, the structure of the low-end products exposed China\\ s inadequate investment in research and innovation, low-tech, low value-added short board. \"Second five\" plan proposed emphasis on structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of enterprises will be able to ensure that the main form of higher profits.
Better opportunities than the export of agents
Overall demand for the international market in good condition, nearly two years, China\\ s exports of medical equipment in the global financial crisis and adverse economic catastrophe, and still maintain high growth.
Health Insurance Association last month, China announced the first half of 2011, China\\ s medical equipment import and export statistics show that exports of medical devices for the first half of $ 7.134 billion, surged 57.34% year on year, slightly less than 2 percent of imports continued to maintain large surplus. \"China\\ s medical device product quality and cheap, in great demand on the international market, continued to drive strong growth in exports of medical equipment.\" China Health Insurance Association Medical Director Cai Tianzhi the case said.
From the export structure, the low-end products still account for the vast majority of color ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, X-ray tomography instrument and other high-end varieties accounted for only 7.49%. In the top 10 export enterprises, foreign investment and joint ventures accounted for 7.
Faced with a huge global market, \"cake\", as the main force of domestic exports of medical devices in the low-end products to compete in the international market in a passive weak position, and its innovation is weak, low export prices, profits vulnerable to raw material prices, exchange rates fluctuations, competitive concern.
\"We have the traditional advantages of medical dressings, etc., are constantly improved in recent years, toward the high-tech direction. Although Mindray, higher-dimensional aspects of domestic enterprises in the export competitiveness of slightly stronger, but on the whole, the domestic shortage of local R & D however, in the future \\ second five\\ during the nation will be more emphasis on R & D enterprise in the development of previous years has accumulated a certain basis, the ability to increase investment in research and development. \"Caitian Zhi said.
In the long term, China\\ s huge potential for development of medical device companies. Analysis of gold that the current integration of the medical device industry is in the development of critical points. Research data show that the global medical device industry growth than the pharmaceutical market, the future will remain 10% to 15% compound growth rate. While the developed countries accounted for 78% of the market, however, developing countries represented by China\\ s rapidly growing market, relying on the accumulation of cost advantage and R & D to enhance the status of the industry chain.
Monita analysis, and market high hopes for the export of pharmaceutical preparations compared to high-end medical equipment export outlook is more optimistic. \"China\\ s high-end medical equipment manufacturers are likely to use low-cost and price advantage, accounting for some of the overseas sales of regulating the market share, and a breakthrough in overseas markets than expected after the results of the contribution.\"
However, the \"accelerated appreciation of the renminbi\\ s impact on export profits more and more obvious, imported inflation to a certain extent, plagued the export of medical devices. Local enterprises should strive to reduce costs, and constantly develop new products, improve the technological content of products to seeking to break through. \"Caitian Zhi said.
Monita analysis also believes that China is still export-oriented, labor supply shortages in the increasingly obvious premise, the inevitable trend of rising labor costs, which means that Chinese industrial enterprises to upgrade and enhance labor productivity and additional value is the only way out.
Force high initial success
Strong enemy arrives, the domestic enterprises poised to break through the sea. The face of foreign investment, \"go down\" to seize the low-end market, the domestic local businesses are also actively \"go to\", \"go.\"
All along, our low-end products because of the high cost of medical equipment in the international market sells. In the low-end exports of medical equipment to maintain the same benefits, while high value-added and high-end medical equipment exports has been growing steadily in the international market has room for development. China Health Insurance Association released data show that in the first half, color ultrasound diagnostic apparatus exports $ 162 million, an increase of 28.03%; X-ray tomography instrument exports $ 158 million, an increase of 23.24%; B-type ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus exports 0.81 billion, an increase of 15.96%.
Neusoft Medical, Wandong Medical, financial and medical Dunlop stronger medical device companies export performance in recent years is remarkable, they have begun to change the situation in the low-end products to high-end market forward to establish overseas marketing channels, open the European market, while continuing to explore emerging markets.
As the leading enterprises of Wandong Medical Devices has begun to dabble in high-end varieties. Previously based on primary health care institutions in low-end products, due to trapped in the government tendering and procurement costs caused by price pressure, significantly lower gross margins. Domestic market share of the first medical X-ray was the main source of profit is Wandong, but the foreign medical equipment giants continue to penetrate eroded gross margins dropped significantly.
Since 2009, Wandong embarked on structural adjustment, in the high-end products continued to increase. In its product mix in 2009, government bidding still half the product has been reduced to less than 1 / 10, the end product and the proportion of high-end products, respectively, about 1 / 3. Wandong Medical increased the DR? P digital gastrointestinal? P for Cardiovascular Angiography and MRI and other high-end large-scale equipment development and sales efforts, 30 million to 60 million in the end product revenue accounted for nearly 40%, large support equipment has become the core of the company\\ s future growth.
After adjusting to the high-end, product gross margin increased dramatically. Medical equipment gross margin from 31.16% in 2009 increased significantly to 37.08% in 2010. 2011 Daily News revealed that the first half of medical products sales income 290.9792 million yuan, profits 10,411.04 million, gross profit margin 35.78%. Among them, export revenue 15,677,600 yuan, accounting for the main business income of 5.17%. However, Wandong Medical species adjust to high-end is still the main face of the domestic market, expansion into international markets is insufficient.
Domestic open MRI and CT Neusoft also being the leading high-end market force. Neusoft also had major medical business based on the national primary health care sector, introduced from CT, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging to the X-ray, ultrasound machine, instrument and electrical products and other suitable areas, county and township primary health care sector of economical low-end medical equipment. In recent years, Neusoft actively pursued high-end medical equipment, new product development.
In April 2009, Neusoft successfully developed China\\ s independent intellectual property rights of PET to obtain market access for U.S. FDA. Last July, PET to obtain a one-time six orders for the U.S. market, Neusoft Medical Equipment to test the water the United States made important breakthroughs in high-end market, but also to break the monopoly of foreign companies in PET. In the same year, Neusoft\\ s NeuViz 16 FDA-registered multi-slice CT, to become another access to the global high-end medical products.
Neusoft Medical 2010 annual report, Neusoft Medical Systems business revenue 794 million yuan, an increase of 25.3%, 37.66% gross margin. Among them, the medical equipment export earnings $ 26,030,000, an increase of 38%, mainly due to the rapid growth of exports CT machine.
Neusoft Medical Disclosure in 2011, the company medical systems business revenue 40,169 million, up 27.90% over the previous year, accounting for 17.35% in operating income. Meanwhile, exports revenue of $ 14,820,000, an increase of 86.42%. Outside the company grew revenues 33.36% over the previous year, mainly due to the company\\ s international business and medical software export growth contribution of high-end medical products to gain market approval of medical devices to achieve rapid growth in overseas sales.
Although China\\ s high-end medical equipment varieties in the international market share of a gradual increase, but the overall level of technology and brand products and a far cry from the developed countries, therefore, high-end medical equipment is a fashion trend of foreign monopoly is difficult to change, Chinese enterprises break through the road is still a long way to go.
Doctors will be electronic health product substitution?
Chronic diseases \"tracking device\"
From the 1980s, our country has gradually become a chronic disease spectrum shows residents leading cause of death. The third cause of death nationwide sample survey to cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases has been ranked as the representative of our national cause of death in the first place.
However, due to the complexity of the human body, the same as Zhao Feng cases doctors often give out the problem.
In this context, the field of electronic health-related products for the prevention of chronic diseases has opened up a new path. Professor of Computer Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dr. Zhang Qian told the \"Science Times\" reporter: \"These devices are in many chronic disease prevention and treatment play an active role in recovery.\"
Zhao Feng used the \"small tin\" and the hospital\\ s data platform combined can form a set of remote ECG system, which is currently the most widely used electronic health equipment. Traditional ECG examination process is only a short few minutes, record the cardiac and only dozens of times, not easy to find patients with arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia and other diseases. In addition, subjects recorded only when the ECG static information, but also limits the accuracy of diagnosis.
In 2004, Fu Wai Hospital, the technology from abroad. Doctors use the remote ECG system for patients during sleep, sports, work fatigue, and emotional state of a variety of specific ECG changes appear to record, analyze, and timely capture of the cardiovascular system abnormalities. \"It\\ s like a tracker, tracking of chronic diseases, help us to find traces of the disease.\" Fang Pi-hua.
Promote new technologies
Although Pi-Hua Fang used the \"small tin\" is a new thing, but through information technology-assisted medical diagnostic concept, as early as 100 years ago, was born.
As early as 1903, the famous Dutch physician in Al Ain Te Huofen experiments obtained through telephone lines for transmission Modern ECG records with similar ECG. In the first manned U.S. space program, \"Project Mercury\", in order to get the astronauts in weightlessness, health, bio-sensors on the suit by also received a number of physiological parameters.
In recent years, increasingly sophisticated computer technology will accelerate the development of electronic health equipment.
Northeastern University professor Heather Clark and his team developed a new iPhone shell. To address patient needs to get a finger prick blood sample to check the correlation of blood glucose, serum sodium level of the problem, the team used new technology materials science, formulation of a specific compound with the body mass combined with nanoparticles solution. Because these particles have fluorescence properties, in actual use, simply turn on the LED light source, the iPhone close to the injection solution of nanoparticles on the skin, specially designed software, the iPhone will be able to identify the results displayed.
U.S. Nyx Instruments has developed a product called \"Hypnos\" pajamas. Mounted on a small chip pocket pajamas by processing the collected data such as respiratory rate, rapid eye movement can be identified, light sleep and deep sleep characteristics in different stages of sleep.
\"Hypnos\" is the inventor of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a sleep neurologist. \"The purpose of the invention this is pajamas at home for a long time to allow people to repeated measurements.\" He said, \"Users can record their sleep quality in coffee, alcohol, exercise, or how the changes under the influence of pressure.\"
In China, there are many companies turning to the emerging field of medical technology. Medical technology as a new element of Shenzhen Development Co., Ltd. Chief Technical Advisor, Zhang Qian to the \"Science Times\" reporter introduced the company\\ s products voiding diary remote monitoring system.
\"The traditional approach is measured by the patients themselves, and fill in a paper form, in the process, often there will be wrong note, omission, etc.. The system can help patients live at home, measure urine output, urine flow rate data, and timely upload to help physicians diagnose disease and the cause. \"Zhang Qian said.
Or will lead to \"excessive treatment\"
The emerging electronic health equipment, medical diagnosis and treatment for the supporting role is obvious. However, expect that these devices can replace the doctor, in the foreseeable future is still a dream.
Called a \"skin scan\" of the recent Apple iPhone application store shelves. Taken within a period of time the user a number of sheets moles photos, enter age and sex uploaded to the database, click the Analyze button, the program will be handled through a dedicated software analysis of these mole pictures, to determine whether the normal growth of mole , and thus look for signs of melanoma.
In this regard, as a professional doctor\\ s side Pi Hua believes that factors affecting the skin is very complex. \"Biopsy diagnosis of melanoma is the way.\" Fang Pi Hua said, \"only through a few photos, the disease is difficult to obtain accurate results even if the remote is now widely used ECG detection system, still need to meet the comprehensive examination in order to diagnose a disease. \"
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Beijing Union Medical College Professor, Dongfeng Gu said: \"If these products are used improperly, it is likely to mislead the public, resulting in psychological panic, triggering a series of\" over-treatment \", resulting in waste of medical resources. \"
Pi-Hua Fang believes that the long term, do not ignore the e-health products in the field of public health role. However, before these products enter the market, we must consider the application requirements, \"can not blindly through advanced technology to attract the eye.\"
“Mobile Health” has become a strategic level “cross” industry
Asymptotic in the information society gradually Pro today, information technology will give us what surprise? "Mobile Health" may be one of them.
Recently, the reporter from Cambridge, England s "mobile health: current and future mobile medical applications network seminar was informed that" mobile health "has become the world s many efforts to develop national strategic level" cross "industry, is expected to change the traditional medical industry development.
"Mobile Health" change traditional medical industry
At present, the traditional medical industry in the world is facing increasing pressure even difficult to reverse, on the one hand, in developed countries, health care spending in the government s financial burden is increasing, such as the UK s welfare expenditures have accounted for 25.9% of GDP , which became one of the most important part of medical expenses; the other hand, due to the shortage of medical resources, imbalance, the public "difficult and expensive," hit the developing world has become a chronic illness. How to solve the problems of government, medical institutions, public problems, the medical industry to achieve sustainable development, global health care industry, a topic of common concern.
It is understood that this "mobile health" seminar was held in this context. In addition to the organizers to move outside of Cambridge and Oxford, Harvard and other universities as well as the world s leading GSM Association, the World Health Organization, British Telecom and other institutions, organizations and enterprises through the network connection to send experts to participate in the discussions, the study by the Sino-British "Mobile medical" research projects worldwide attention.
Reporters learned that the project was launched in October 2010, a comprehensive perspective to the global "mobile health" status and potential for application development, and on the "mobile health" of the future development of regulatory bodies, operators, medical institutions and other relevant actors make strategic recommendations. Former vice president of the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, led by Professor Ian Leslie, which lasted more than four months to carry out a special research work, the interdisciplinary combination of expert resources University of Cambridge and China Mobile "mobile health" latest practice field, the final completion of the research report.
"Mobile Health" mainly refers to the use of mobile communication networks to enhance health care. In the application, the report combing the world s 128 most recent "mobile health" applications, covering primary care, public health research, emergency care, chronic disease management, self care, and improve the overall efficiency of the health system and other fields.
For example, through the smart phone to collect, store, analyze and upload vital signs, location, mood, environmental data such as temperature and pollution levels, doctors can be more convenient and timely manner to carry out medical research and disease surveillance; the use of sophisticated mobile network coverage in remote areas of health workers, professional training through the phone and remote support to improve the level of health care; wireless fall prevention devices to speed up the filter and gravity sensors connected with the mobile phone network to monitor the running status of the elderly, prevent, predict their The "fall"; even "mobile health" is also able to develop a specialized communication system for major natural disasters, disaster suffered by interactive communication, and enhance restore confidence, and so on.
In Tasmania, the Australian telecommunications to provide women with a breast cancer screening services through mobile broadband network to transfer the image file assessment center, so that women in remote areas can not travel long distances to get expert diagnosis.
In the UK, patients can use Vodafone s 3G mobile video consulting a doctor, by calling 3G video calls to your doctor, consulting fees pay only ￡ 35, you can enjoy the professional advisory services provided by physicians.
There for iPhone and iPod Touch fitness program designed to provide the software for different exercise methods, exercise different muscle groups, but also the development of health and fitness goals in the process of supervision. Another software designed specifically for the iPhone, you can use a variety of ways for smoking cessation.
The report also for policy makers recommendations, such as through financial incentives to promote "mobile health" applications of innovation, the "mobile health" application project assessment guidance, an appropriate balance between specific "mobile health" risks and benefits of the project application , and with the "mobile health"-related financial transactions and other small to take a more relaxed regulatory policies, and so on.
"Mobile Health" strategic opportunities emerging China
On Chinese society, the "mobile health" has a more realistic social significance – for the government, can enhance the social quality of the population, to strengthen public service capacity, reduce the "old before getting rich" of the stress; For the public You can get cheaper, more convenient primary care, enjoy better health care services; for hospitals, can ease the "doctor-patient conflicts" to reduce patient stress; for the information industry, you can broaden the range of applications, more better serve the community, achieve sustainable development.
It should be noted, "mobile medicine" is based on mobile communications, that "almost everywhere, to locate, connect with the user interface devices, personal, and provide low-cost computing power, sensors and integrated support for a range of mobility." . After years of rapid development, China s mobile network coverage level and the United States and Europe were flat or even slightly ahead, can the "mobile health" of seizing the strategic opportunity to promote its rapid development.
Currently, the domestic telecom companies have begun to "mobile health" field layout, and generate a lot of lack of good economic and social benefits of a typical application.
In Guizhou, Guizhou Province, with China Mobile to build the new rural cooperative medical information management system, covering the province s 42 counties, 371 towns and 1,428 medical institutions, the province s 10 million farmers do not realize the mountains to the reimbursement , "you can swipe the door to see a doctor." In this regard, the World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan commented: "This innovative tools that can build a rural health information development Guizhou mode in the country and around the world to promote the greater benefit of the people."
In Inner Mongolia, 12580 health navigation services, provides medical information and medical electronic check services; in Guangdong, make an appointment phone 12 580 registered customers, the phone can be used to pay registration fees, the receipt of two-dimensional code, self-service terminal brush to the hospital code to print registration certificates treatment; in Tianjin, Jiangsu and other places, the local hospital and mobile build a "patient communication" platform, integrated call centers, video visitation, mobile clinic and other functions; in Shanghai, patients with mobile phone call 120 for help, calling 120 phone system can be addressed immediately in 5 seconds to complete orientation, to the rescue of more timely patient … …
However, we should also clearly see that although China s "mobile medicine" field and achieved encouraging results, some typical applications to promote better, but still in its infancy, with the country s existing health system to further close collaboration combination, but also faces many difficulties. Meanwhile, in the "mobile health" building is still mainly rely on industry, business promotion, not the government, hospitals, mobile operators force , lead to real health care industry, core processes embedded in the application of information less than normal, limiting our "Mobile medical" industry standards.
Former Vice Chancellor University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Professor Ian Leslie seminar with special emphasis on the network: " mobile medical most likely to usher in rapid development of emerging economies, and in the" mobile health "industry development, the mobile operators to provide universal service platform will play a crucial role. "
China s mobile medical prospects, worth the wait.