Release date: 2015-09-11 If you are listed for the name of the medical device company you know, which names will appear first in your mind? Is GE? Siemens? Or Philips? With the continuous deepening of medical improvement, China's investment in medical care has also increased dramatically. In 2012, the total output value of medical equipment in China exceeded 157 billion yuan. However, if we look closely at the market distribution behind the numbers, we will find that high-value-added large-scale equipment such as magnetic resonance and CT is almost monopolized by foreign companies such as GE, Siemens and Philips. As in your mind, the high-end medical devices used in hospitals are almost all foreign goods. Faced with this problem, on June 25, Hou Yan, Director of the Planning and Information Department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “Guardian Committeeâ€, clearly stated that the government procurement law will be strictly enforced in the future to ensure that financial funds are preferentially procured domestically. Medical equipment. In fact, apart from the fact that Chinese-funded enterprises are surrounded by “foreign brandsâ€, the more serious problem facing China's medical device industry is that while the medical service resources are scarce, the equipment use efficiency is seriously low. During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the central government has allocated more than 20 billion yuan for the purchase of medical equipment. However, the introduction of medical equipment, in exchange for a large number of medical equipment idle. Insiders revealed to China Economic Weekly that the use rate of medical devices in Chinese primary hospitals is less than 40%. Top three VS grassroots: ice and fire two days When talking about the problem of equipment usage, Bai Zhipeng, secretary-general of China Medical Equipment Association, gave a set of data to China Economic Weekly through his personal visit: "In China's first-tier cities, such as Beijing, a CT machine has a day. For 70--80 passengers; however, in county-level hospitals in Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other provinces, a hospital will only have 7-15 patients at a time to take CT." “The state stipulates that county-level hospitals can also be equipped with CT machines. However, due to factors such as the number of patients and the affordability of patients, county-level hospitals simply cannot have so many patients, which will result in a large number of devices being idle.†Bai Zhipeng Say. Compared with the basic hospitals, the large medical equipment in the top three cities of the first-tier cities can be much more busy. "My biggest concern is the use rate of medical equipment." The president of a top-three hospital in Beijing told reporters that "there are too many patients waiting to see a doctor every day. Sometimes it takes weeks or even a month to make an appointment." In this case, once the equipment has problems and needs to be repaired, it will have a very bad impact on our hospital and even the entire doctor-patient relationship." So what does boot usage mean? Gary H. Bobb, general manager of GE Healthcare's Greater China customer service department, explained: “In simple terms, the higher the boot usage, the more the machine can be used anytime, anywhere.†Bao Gerui told China Economic Weekly, the equipment used by medical equipment companies for hospitals is about 93%. "This number means that a machine can't be used for about 25 days in 365 days a year. We can now increase this number from the current 93% to 98%, which means that in a year. Only six or seven days the hospital can't use this machine." Assuming that a CT machine provides services for 80 patients a day, for the top three hospitals in the first-tier cities, a 5 percentage point increase in the use rate of the machine means that one machine can see more than 1,400 patients a year. However, no matter how the equipment is used up, the large-scale hospitals in first-tier cities are under great pressure due to the large concentration of patients. Bai Zhipeng said that 98% of the patients who queued to Peking Union Medical College Hospital every day were from outsiders: "After all, everyone is sick and wants to come to a big hospital for more assured treatment." It is worth mentioning that how to stimulate the medical resources of idle primary hospitals, some medical device companies have targeted the business opportunities here. GE Healthcare has developed the Industrial Internet to allow primary hospitals to complete diagnostics through mobile healthcare. Duan Xiaoyu, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Greater China, said: "With interconnected devices, grassroots hospitals can remotely connect ultrasound imaging diagnostics to large hospitals in real time to help township hospitals diagnose." However, Bai Zhipeng believes that the number of equipment purchases and procurement specifications of county-level hospitals should be properly controlled. Bai Zhipeng revealed that the China Medical Equipment Association had suggested to the Health Planning Commission that the medical equipment procurement of a hospital should be decided according to the function of the medical institution and the tasks it undertakes. "Since the number of patients is small, the machine is enough." The start of the evening, the domestic medical machinery enterprises are "congenitally insufficient" In such an important field, Chinese-funded medical equipment companies are in a state of paralysis. "In the domestic medical device market, foreign capital and joint ventures have become the main force, and imported products have formed a sales monopoly in China." Qiu Guixing, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Department of Orthopaedics of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, is outspoken. According to the data, China spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to import large quantities of large value-added medical equipment from abroad. According to reports, in China's medical electronic products field, 90% of the ECG machine market, 80% of the high-end monitor market, 90% of the high-end multi-channel physiological recorder market are occupied by foreign brands, domestic products are mainly concentrated in massage appliances Low-value-added types such as blood pressure measuring instruments. Facing the situation that the large medical equipment market is monopolized by foreign capital, Hou Yan said that the medical equipment industry has become an important driving force for the development of the national science and technology, leading the development of multidisciplinary technology and driving economic growth. He made it clear that China will vigorously develop domestic medical equipment in the future, reduce medical costs, and ensure that fiscal funds give priority to purchasing domestic medical equipment by strictly implementing the government procurement law. Although the government department has clearly stated that it will support the development of domestic medical equipment, why do our hospitals prefer to purchase foreign brands? Is it because the technical level of Chinese-funded equipment is not enough? In Bai Zhipeng's view, domestic medical device products can't get rid of the "low-end" title because China's medical device industry started late, resulting in insufficient technology precipitation and accumulation. "As early as the 1960s and 1970s, magnetic resonance and CT machines have made great progress in the field of technology research and development abroad. However, our country introduced these advanced machines after the reform and opening up, because it started late, so We definitely need a process of digestion and accumulation." However, he also pointed out that the situation in which foreign goods dominated the world is also a deviation of some people's understanding. "In the minds of some large hospital administrators, it seems that there is such an inherent cognition that the quality of domestically produced goods is not good. For the sake of insurance, everyone would rather buy foreign-funded equipment." Of course, Chinese-funded equipment is not completely sold. Some grassroots hospitals also choose low-cost domestic equipment because of limited funding. "Some foreign-invested large-scale medical equipment after-sales warranty costs millions of dollars a year, these hospitals can afford to afford even if they can afford it." Bai Zhipeng said. However, in Bai Zhipeng's view, in fact, domestic low-end medical equipment (including some large-scale equipment) can meet the basic medical needs of China. If the big hospitals can reduce the number of comparisons, and the support policies can be truly in place, and the technical level of China continues to improve, the development prospects of Chinese medical equipment are still relatively optimistic. 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