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The domestic market or are in the low-end high-growth health care
Global pharmaceutical consulting firm IMS stakeholders of the China Securities, told reporters that the next few years, the domestic low-end medical market is expected to achieve 30 percent growth rate. Low-end medical market, the local medical devices industry is expected to lead to benefit, to achieve high growth opportunities.
Among them, the grass roots of the two, one, county hospitals and township health care needs of growth potential, low-end medical market expansion will be followed to find high-growth investment opportunities in the medical industry will continue to sink.
Primary health care space opens
According to IMS analysis, with the domestic health insurance coverage for primary health care and policy support, China\\ s \"top-heavy\" three-tier medical system in the next few years to reverse, in the \"inverted pyramid\" share of the top three hospital clinics expected to decrease, while at the bottom of the share of primary health care sector clinics will grow rapidly. Which is converted to \"first light foot heavy\" and \"are pyramid\" structure, to accommodate our large group of primary care conditions.
The end of 2011, the national basic medical insurance coverage will reach 90%, a substantial increase over 2005. Ministry of Health data provided by mid-October, the current network of rural health service system to further build a strong, 11 provinces had village health clinics included in the new rural cooperative co-ordination. The next step will be the year to ensure the village health system to achieve full coverage of essential drugs, the establishment of new mechanisms to promote grass-roots level.
New medical reform program that the central government in 2009-2011 three-year period to fund the build 2000 county-level hospitals and 29,000 township hospitals, township hospitals and upgrade 5000 3700 community health care institutions, the new 11000 community health care institutions. The goal is to achieve the current node.
Research institutions so that the new medical reform and health insurance coverage for primary care market to accelerate this year to promote the effect will appear.
First to benefit from medical device industry
At present, China\\ s low-end medical equipment procurement, local enterprises topped the list. IMS Management Consulting Principal Consultant Meng Jinli believe that this is due to the government in the primary care market, the strong support of local businesses. In addition, the medical equipment is updated once every 8-12 years, will also be a huge market space. It is understood that \"five,\" China will increase support for the development of domestic medical equipment, the implementation of centralized bidding and procurement, preferential purchasing domestic medical equipment.
Ministry of Health, who describes that from 2012 to 2015, central government will consider supporting primary health care institutions with basic equipment, provincial and county levels to enhance CDC test capacity building, institution-building in public health prevention and control of occupational health institution-building , and equipped with necessary equipment. In addition, the system will continue to improve rural emergency, ambulance and first aid equipment will be necessary to gradually increase. Emergency system in rural areas in 2011 will reach 720 million yuan investment, other medical devices will continue to increase investment.
A medical device company shares in 2011 to keep the good performance confirms this trend. In the context of rising costs, Xinhua medical announcements, company January-September net profit growth of 50% -100%, and because \"the domestic medical equipment market demand\", pulling orders, sales expansion and net profit growth. The diving medical, music medicine, yet the medical wing, red medicine and other medical device companies also have good performance during the performance.
Medical equipment market within the next five years to double growth
25-27 September 2011, China Instrument Association laboratory equipment unit in Chongqing Branch of the Organization\\ s governing annual meeting of the year\\ s work is summarized, the meeting called attention to the localization of primary health care unit equipment.
Guo Xiaowei, Deputy Secretary-General in the instrument Association attended the meeting, the Federation of the Association on behalf of member services for the issue of communication with participants.
Branch General Meeting by the laboratory instrument Wen-sheng presided over branch chairman Liu Longguan work report. Over the past year, laboratory equipment branch of the few people under the conditions of shortage of funds, dedicated to member service, a lot of work: Organization edited the \"Handbook of primary health care unit of equipment,\" and actively participate in member self-development and scientific instruments Innovation Award of the declaration, always prepared to help \"instrumentation industry,\" second Five-Year \"development plan\" to provide the material to complete the eight national standards balance the draft report, the organization of the 11 industry papers in the \"primary health care unit equipment manuals \"published.
Subsequently, the conference delegates on the work report were discussed. According to statistics, in 2009 the publication of the new medical reform program implementation, creating a huge demand for medical equipment product, market size in 2010 will reach 120 billion yuan, double the next five years; primary health care units, a total of 138 major equipment items, instrumentation equipment, including 81 conventional, 59%. Foreign companies a monopoly not only in the high-end instrumentation, and began to focus on low-end medical equipment, have the layout of the low-end products and sales. Therefore, the delegates called on relevant government departments, trade organizations and manufacturers, should pay attention to the needs of primary care equipment; domestic enterprises should strengthen scientific research and development for primary health care units to provide much-needed equipment.
Global medical device market in 2011 will reach $ 312 billion
KaloramaInformation healthcare market research report recently released a new version of \"global medical device market.\" It is predicted that global medical device market in 2011 will reach $ 312 billion, MRI instrument, laparoscopic surgical equipment and medical gloves will be the next few years, global medical device market faster-growing product categories. KaloramaInformation The report is based on industry conferences, medical equipment market and the main company\\ s annual report completed.
KaloramaInformation issuer BruceCarlson said: \"The increased demand in emerging markets, reducing the need for hospitalization and the arrival of aging society, these are the medical device market growth potential power and some medical devices are routine-oriented, and competition more intense, so prices will be relatively stagnant, while others can reduce hospitalization time, or at home can be easy to use device products, such as patient monitors, oxygen systems, and home analyzer, is expected to be rapid growth. \"
The report also predicted that the next few years, global medical device market will be 4% to 6% growth rate (global medical device market in 2009 to reach 29 billion U.S. dollars). As the global recession, the medical device market growth over the past few years has slowed, but with the economic recovery and the level of middle-income emerging market consumers demand health care services, medical equipment market will continue to grow . However, while hundreds of companies in the global medical device market to compete with Taiwan, but the main beneficiaries may be only the top 30 sales companies.
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.
National health information application development
At present, the hospital began to focus on information technology from a cost-based hospital information management of the initial stage of a gradual transition to hospital-based advanced stage of clinical information. Hospital information systems development and applications are the depth, starting from the earlier focus on the economic operation and management, and gradually to the clinical application of management decision-making application extension, the progressive realization of the \"charge center\" to \"patient-centered\" digital hospital change, while the rational use of medical resources, medical business process optimization to improve hospital management decision-making play an increasingly important role.
Currently almost all tertiary hospitals carried out information technology, and the following two levels of the hospital has carried out more than 80% of information technology, most of the main HIS system. HIS systems mature and gradually expand the application of basic applications, doctors and nurses workstation workstations growing popularity, Vaccine Immunol system more perfect; the rapid development of wireless application technology, handheld terminal applications gradually expanded. CIS system is gradually in-depth, PACS, RIS and other systems applications mature, EMR (electronic medical records) are being more and more trial and the use of hospital, surgical anesthesia, intensive care and other system applications have been promoted. Beginning in 2007, the number of hospital integration platform steady development, but integration is difficult, the current development is slower.
Major disasters, the 2003 SARS epidemic broke out, exposed to public health emergencies in China for the emergency mechanism is not perfect, is seriously lagging behind the development of public health problems. Government began to increase regional public health and other medical and health information technology research and investment, and promote, including outbreaks and public health emergency surveillance system, public health emergencies and the emergency command center decision-making system, medical treatment information systems and health supervision and law enforcement information systems, including national public health information system. Meanwhile, health care reform also contributed to urban residents for community health service system for rural residents and rural medical insurance information system and other medical products, the rapid development of information technology has greatly extended and improved our product line medical information; around health authorities have also set up immunization information systems, maternal and child health information system, blood management information systems, information sharing and integration of future resources to build a foundation.
Currently, disease control, maternal and child health, community health and the new rural cooperative medical and other information technology gradually in all regions start the less developed regions begin construction related systems, but the application of information technology is relatively simple. Centers for Disease Control, the new rural cooperative applications such as information technology has been launched in the country, but the focus is currently building the provincial platform. Resident file system-building and regional health care data center as a public health focus of information technology in 2008 began to develop. Health of residents is to achieve regional medical file basis, but also to achieve the key objectives of health care reform means more than the provincial government began to establish the provincial health administration platform. Regional Medical Center for data integration in the region over the hospital\\ s medical information storage and exchange, is the basis for the future of regional health care.
Of health care information technology industry, the development of a late start on the overall IT investment, domestic investment in the medical industry, the actual annual income of the hospital only 0.3-0.5% and 3-5% in developed countries and regions, both there is 10-fold difference. Because of economic conditions, national health information technology industry is one of the few large general hospitals began to develop, and gradually spread to small and medium hospital market. Level from the hospital point of view, investment in tertiary hospitals was significantly higher than three the following hospitals, township hospitals and rural health systems, information technology is relatively backward; terms of geographical distribution, economically developed areas of information technology investment in the hospital was significantly higher than medium-developed economies and less developed regions. Differences in the degree of information on the nationwide health care reform, the new rural cooperative implementation of such policies and raise the level of universal health care has brought some difficulties.
Years, with the building of a harmonious society in China, the new rural construction, healthcare reform and a series of new policies will be implemented in our hospital information and promote public health, the rapid development of information technology in construction.
The first three quarters this year, the pharmaceutical business continued to grow steadily
1 to 3 quarters of this year, China s pharmaceutical business maintained steady growth. This is November 5 Reporters growth from the Sixth China Development Forum and pharmaceutical drug development company International Symposium received the news.
Ministry of Commerce of the market order temperature Zaixing Division inspectors said at the forum, the first three quarters, China s consumer demand for active pharmaceutical distribution market, the industry maintained a steady growth: the pharmaceutical industry supply growth steady. Seven major types of pharmaceutical products in China amounted to 590 billion yuan, representing an increase of 17 percent over the same period last year, up 14 percent, total sales of 620 billion yuan, the growth rate increased by 3 percentage points; pharmaceutical business efficiency levels rose steadily, profits 9.05 billion yuan, the average profit margin of 2.1%, gross margin was 8.5%; focus on profitability of the business growing, boosting the efficiency of the sector level of steady growth.
According to the Ministry of Commerce statistics, in 2010 total sales of China s pharmaceutical distribution industry to 708.4 billion yuan, up 24.6 percent over the previous year, including drug sales reached 127.5 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 20%.
Wen Zaixing that the medical reason to obtain such a rapid growth in circulation, one national economy in general release to the good and the medical needs of medical reform, the pharmaceutical industry provides a good external environment. May this year in particular, the Ministry of Commerce issued a "second five" pharmaceutical distribution industry development program, the reform of the pharmaceutical distribution play a role in promoting development; Second, corporate mergers and acquisitions to promote the restructuring of the pharmaceutical distribution. Sinopharm, China Resources Group and other large enterprises to accelerate the large-scale, intensive development, has become an important force in circulation. Data show that three years before the 100 pharmaceutical distribution companies growth rate than the industry growth rate; modern medicine has become a pharmaceutical logistics distribution companies to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency is the key factor.
The medical information in 2011 will reach 13 billion yuan investment
Medical information on the process at the macro by national health policies. Market-oriented reforms in recent years, the medical business was driven by investment in information technology, and reform policy changes, but also for some small hospitals are no more ability to invest. The recent reform of public service-oriented tendency, beneficial changes in the pattern of past investment.
In today\\ s rapid development of information technology, medical industry, information technology investment year on year. Medical and health services related to people\\ s livelihood, and medical information is medical and health services in the information age can better serve patients, an important support service to the community, is being more and more government departments and relevant enterprises and organizations concerned.
Healthcare information technology investment growth slowed, increasing year by year
Medical information on the process at the macro by national health policies. Market-oriented reforms in recent years, the medical business was driven by investment in information technology, and reform policy changes, but also for some small hospitals are no more ability to invest. The recent reform of public service-oriented tendency, beneficial changes in the pattern of past investment.
Application of information technology from the hospital perspective, a different scale the level of hospital IT applications is still evident. Overall, the high level of IT application level higher than the average hospital lower level hospitals.
Most tertiary hospitals and some of the first of the two hospitals, has been basically completed the construction of the first round of the HIS system, part of the advanced tertiary hospital HIS system has entered a consolidation phase; and most of a hospital and part of the following two hospitals are HIS system in the building of the first round of the process.
PACS / RIS system at all levels of the distribution of the hospital basically similar, but the number of hospitals in the application of the system in general less certain. In some advanced hospitals, including PACS / RIS, LIS, including the integration of hospital information system (or integrated HIS system) applications are relatively mature. Meanwhile, the mobile information technology and other new technology is entering the hospital information technology applications.
The rapid development of public health information. After 2003, public health information technology and application quick start in 2006, into a more substantial construction phase, and achieved initial results. Integrated emergency health system planning, but also into the work of the Ministry of Health.
Administrative systems at all levels of health, disease prevention and control system, an integrated collection of health information resources platform system, health inspection information systems, disease early warning and monitoring systems, medical treatment information system, based on geographic information system (GIS) of the Command and Control information systems, public health information service system, has a few advanced cities in the country began construction.
From the medical point of view the structure of investment in IT applications, information technology investment each year toward a more optimal structure changes. 2002 to 2006, an increasing proportion of low hardware products, software and services, the proportion is increasing. More new applications emerge, the development and outsourcing services, IT services market, compared with the growth of health care provided a new impetus.
Telemedicine and regional health information technology applications, is the redistribution of medical resources to play a more active role. The one hand, doctors and medical equipment on the allocation of resources, so that benefit economically backward regions; the other hand, the allocation of resources in the patient, such as the realization of two-way referral, but also help alleviate the large hospital resource constraints, make full use of small the hospital\\ s medical resources.
Healthcare information technology market demand outlook
According to the analysis of CMP Consulting and forecasts, 2007 to 2011, China\\ s medical industry information technology investment is expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of 17.7%. Investment in 2007 is expected to reach 6.839 billion yuan in 2011 will reach 13 billion yuan.
From the investment structure, the next five years, IT hardware investment proportion will decline further, the proportion of investment in software and services will be increased year by year.
The next five years, China\\ s medical information market will have the following trends:
① the medical industry for more companies to join the ranks of the IT market competition. Throughout China\\ s medical information market, starting from 1993 has gone through three stages of development. The first stage is to do HIS, a large number of independent software vendor (ISV) flock there; second stage is the price war and immature market, a large number of ISV drained; third phase is the involvement of foreign companies.
The future of China\\ s medical industry, the rapid growth of IT market, more manufacturers will be concerned about. International companies, in addition to Intel\\ s digital health care to single out, as with the Digital Enterprise, tied for the mobile market, the industry market, others such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco and so established a professional medical industry sectors.
The country, some manufacturers see this huge market, is involved, such as Founder acquisition program in the medical industry in order to provide five of the ISV Zhongbang. The most noteworthy is that the entry of foreign companies, they will undoubtedly medical information market becomes more competitive situation in full swing.
② IT and gradually expand the scope of application, and more new applications to enter the eye. HIS pattern of world domination will eventually be broken, it is being broken. Following the PACS (medical imaging information system) after the rapid development, USIS (ultrasound information system), PIS (pathology information system), CMS (cost accounting system), PEIS (Medical Information System) is also developing the future of electronic medical records, community a wider range of medical and health management, this also creates more applications.
In application, the process will continue a trilogy. The first step, billing systems and clinical systems; the second step, electronic medical records, structured system, more conducive to inquiry; the third step, the workflow engine, the main software development, SOA architecture, more flexible, you can re-process.
③ integrated healthcare IT products and services while to get people\\ s attention. ISV in many medical industry seems to integrate products and services, is to solve the original the best way to market with low profit margins, but also more in line with the Chinese people\\ s habits. While medical information is not related to service the main source of corporate profits, but began to rely more and more ISV services, the market to do the fine deep.
④ competitive pressures will lead to the medical products industry information integration between enterprises and service providers. Early appearance of ISV domestic enterprises to survive mostly through the introduction of strategic investment, etc., grow bigger, more survival and development opportunities. The next step will grow up ISV through acquisitions, integrate the region\\ s small ISV, customers get more resources, improve the product line, expand the battlefield, in response to competition from domestic and foreign firms.
⑤ integrated industrial chain to promote the integration of applications will become the future mainstream of development. For most of the main ISV, technology increasingly can not be the threshold of its development, and integration will become a focus of future competition. Cooperation with advanced manufacturers in its platform for development, will help domestic manufacturers stand to the global healthcare information technology applications in the forefront. Integration of industrial chain, integrating medical IT resources, applications will become the mainstream of medical information.
⑥ As the market matures, user needs become more rational. If the health care industry, users of IT procurement is divided into impulsive type, image type, rational three, then after several years of application and development of related processes and applications will become the core of user attention. And because users of business processes and applications to consider more and more users demand will become more rational.
⑦ medical information outsourcing, cross-enterprise integration of IT resources. From the development of advanced foreign experience, medical IT system outsourcing has been a certain degree of application, while the domestic market into the warm-up period. Medical IT outsourcing, IT resources to some extent may promote faster integration, to promote IT applications. For example, to implement telemedicine systems, government, hospitals, research institutions, telecommunications infrastructure operators, large-scale professional IT outsourcing service provider, the medical industry ISV, etc., may be integrated into a network, to jointly promote the development of medical and health services.
⑧ public health information will be rapid development in the country. After 2003, public health information technology to accelerate the pace of development; after 2005, public demand for health information technology to accelerate the release of evidence; expected starting in 2007 for the next five years, different areas of China\\ s public health information development will be further accelerated.
⑨ integrated regional health information to more demand for the release. The end of 2006, the Ministry of Science published \"regional collaborative care demonstration project,\" a list of major projects, assume the subject, has been clearly stated to be brought together multi-power, to \"the sharing of resources, long-term service, low cost, low risk\" building concept, building covering health, education, industry management, disease reporting and public health services, information services platform.
Reform process in the medical industry, how to integrate medical resources, to achieve better patient care institutions in the community between the referral and large hospitals as a key, and regional health information technology integration solutions to support its development as a key .
The medical information market will maintain rapid growth in the next three years
Medical information effectively to enhance the level of medical services. Medical information through electronic medical records, electronic registration, telemedicine and other technical means, can effectively alleviate the shortage of medical resources, uneven distribution of inefficiency caused by factors such as a doctor "difficult" and "your" problem.
Hospitals and regional information sharing is the key to health information. Hospital to hospital from the information technology business for the financial and medical center transformed into a patient-centered, the establishment and improvement of electronic medical records will become the core to accommodate. The regional health information in electronic health records within the region as the core, the effective interface with the hospital electronic medical records, eliminating the independent development of various hospitals due to "islands of information." Therefore, the electronic medical records and health records as the core of information-sharing mechanism will be the key medical information.
The medical information is still the initial stage of development space. Medical information from the application of depth, and regional differences in the amount of investment in three areas, the domestic health care information technology is still in its infancy, the future development of larger space. We expect the medical IT market in 2013 will exceed $ 16 billion over the next three years CAGR of over 26%; and regional health information technology investment to reach 3-year CAGR is 45%.
Market competition is relatively intense concentration will gradually increase. At present, medical information relative to the fierce market competition, industry concentration is low, the total market share of top five less than 30%. Leading companies are expected to use the brand, marketing, technology and capital and improve enhance market share; whether future comprehensive IT solutions and extensive industry knowledge will be the key to competition among the leading companies.
Catalyst and risk factors: industry, including medical information catalyst scale pilot cities, the Ministry of Health to further promote the introduction of the timetable and dividend policy; risk factors, including health information technology to promote the progress and scale of investment is lower than expected, bringing the project to increase the size of the tender risk of increased price competition.
Investment advice: benefit from the "second five" plan to improve people s livelihood, health care information technology inflection point has occurred, the next three years will be expected to maintain rapid growth, we are optimistic about a comprehensive solution with rich industry knowledge and a better ability to integrate acquired companies. Recommend UF software industry leader, the group software, Neusoft Group, the proposed attention from the regional markets into the national market shares of the Silver River and Wanda information.
PwC: Chinese medical innovation to catch up with Europe in 2020
\"China, India, Brazil, led by emerging markets innovative medical technology is constantly improved. The next 10 years, innovation in the medical field in emerging markets may be more than developed countries.\" World-renowned accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has released the latest report on \"Medical Technology Innovation Scorecard: competition for the world\\ s leading competition,\" said the emerging markets with their own development, is attracting a growing number of innovative resources and activities in an effort pioneered the development of a new generation of small, efficient and more expensive medical equipment.
Advantage of weakening the United States
PricewaterhouseCoopers in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Britain, the United States and other nine countries had the ability to adapt to changes of an innovative new, multi-faceted assessment.
According to reports, a large number of case studies that, in the leading position of the United States is losing its global innovation center.
PwC report that: medical technology innovation, the United States is still the world leader status. The next 10 years, the United States will continue to show their strongest ability to lead innovation in medical technology innovation, but the leadership will be weakened.
Over the past few decades, the United States to become a leader in medical technology innovation, there are five pillars of this report the five pillars of the nine countries were evaluated. These five pillars are: a strong economic power, such as new technology applications for compensation; innovative resources, such as academic medical centers; supporting regulatory system; demand and price-insensitive patients; by the venture capitalists and other investors constitute a secondary investment groups.
The report notes that with the innovative features of the change, the ideal innovation system itself is also changing. Some of these changes by the United States itself factors, such as new medical technologies in order to certification by regulatory agencies, the cost is getting higher and higher, the results are more difficult to predict; the medical field more and more emphasis on low cost, high value solution programs; R & D investment is becoming more international. Another change will depend on changes in the market outside the United States, for example: the market for investment in local academic medical centers increased; for research projects; many foreign educated scientists and doctors to return to work; mobile medical technology continues to develop , medical channels to increase; these markets are more focused on providing fast, quality, affordable, effective health care solutions.
Attractive emerging markets
Given these factors, medical technology companies increasingly turn to outside the United States to collect clinical data, registration of new products, new markets, those markets have become more attractive and more conducive to innovation. For example, a great number of innovative products into the U.S. before, first select European markets, 2020 may be selected emerging market countries.
PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. pharmaceutical and medical device industry executives Maike Si Wan Nick (Mike Swanick) said: \"social, demographic, economic, technological and other changes in the combined effects of medical technology is changing the pattern of the world in many countries around the established to encourage innovation in the system – with reasonable financing channels, the necessary scientific knowledge and the interaction with the patient as long as able to adapt to this rapidly evolving environment, the changes to the company or the entire country will be able to create opportunities. \"
The report predicts, Japan, Israel, France, Britain, Germany\\ s innovation capacity will be reduced, while China, India, Brazil, innovation may be enhanced. Over the past five years, China\\ s fastest growing innovation capability, the future will continue to maintain the momentum of rapid development is expected in 2020 than other developing countries and developed countries in Europe to catch up with the level of innovation.
However, according to the forecast: China, India, Brazil and other markets although large, but not necessarily to become the leading force of innovation in medical technology. Because inadequate intellectual property protection, foreign-funded enterprises operating difficulties in some countries, coupled with factors such as underdevelopment of local supply networks, making these markets less attractive, in its efforts to become a global leader in innovative power of the process will also be affected.
\"At present, China\\ s research output in second place, the university leadership, ranked fifth, with Germany, Japan, Britain and other less.\"
PricewaterhouseCoopers director Christopher Westin medical industry (Christopher L. Wasden) pointed out: the difficulty of entering the Chinese market is still relatively high, approved a long time, only Japan is more difficult than China, which to some extent hindered the new technology market.
Medical device industry, venture capital investment in gold will never fade
Venture capital in some developed areas, and the medical profession is IT, telecommunications and other industries as the preferred high-tech venture capital industries. China\\ s venture capital industry over the last few in the medical profession to do a further breakdown, so a talk about health care, many people may immediately think of biopharmaceuticals, gene technology, in fact, the medical industry have a considerable number of people may be but also very neglected area of ??investment value – medical equipment. Because medical products related to human life and health, the medical device industry average profit margin is higher than many other high-tech industries, and therefore in the U.S. and Europe, many venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are an active part in the cause of the risk of the medical device industry.
First, the medical device industry is characterized by
1, the medical device industry is a multi-disciplinary integration of high-tech intensive industries
medical devices industry, supporting technology from biomedical engineering. The biomedical engineering is the integration of engineering, medicine and biological sciences, clinical practice, from the engineering point of view in a multi-level system to recognize the human organism, especially the structure, function and other biological phenomena, research for disease prevention, treatment the human body functions and health care auxiliary artificial materials, products, devices and systems technology in general. Biomedical engineering and life sciences in today\\ s electronics, machinery, information, materials, and chemical cross-disciplinary and highly integrated product, is used in clinical research other subjects, body and life to the diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and other devices as a system, and fully consider the interaction of a class of highly knowledge-intensive technology.
2, the medical device industry with the essential features of the product
Medical equipment to serve the human disease diagnosis, prevention, treatment, care, protection of human health as the main purpose. As an organic living body, he (she) will inevitably suffer from a disease, it is bound to seek diagnosis and treatment plan. Therefore, as with pharmaceuticals, medical equipment related diseases has become a necessary consumption, because it is not consumption, may affect the health and even life-threatening. Thus, overall, demand for medical devices is the lack of price elasticity and income elasticity of demand. That regardless of the price level, regardless of patient income, demand and market medical equipment is always there, and relatively stable. No wonder people say: medical equipment is always a sunrise industry!
3, the medical device industry, mergers and acquisitions are more frequent
Medical device industry is currently dominated by small and medium composition, showing a very diverse characteristics, but also has some large enterprises, but also the number and size in the pharmaceutical industry can not be compared to the situation. The medical device industry in Europe and developed countries, large medical device companies due to the size, capital, manpower, particularly in the marketing advantages, often acquired technologies or products that have innovative small and medium sized companies. In China, because the entire medical device industry is not mature, mergers and acquisitions phenomenon is not obvious.
4, the medical device industry is subject to government regulation of specific industries
Medical devices used in human disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and rehabilitation process, and human health and life safety are closely related. Especially those with prolonged exposure to the human body, or into the human body, long-term use of medical devices, in its diagnosis and treatment of disease, while there may be a potential security risk. Therefore, governments have set up special institutions for medical equipment access, production, management, sales and after-sales service for strict control. Such as the U.S. FDA, on its on drugs, medical devices and other products, stringent and effective regulation and world-famous.