China healthcare industry information technology market trends

From the investment structure, it is expected that the next five years, the proportion of IT hardware investment will further decline, software and services of the investment proportion will be increased each year.

The next five years, China medical information market development trends will appear as follows:

1, more companies join the medical professions IT market competition.

Panoramic view of the China medical information market, starting from 1993 till now, has undergone three phases of development. The first stage is a large number of doing HIS independent software vendor (ISV) flocked there; the second stage is in a price war and immature market, a large ISV out; in the third stage is the involvement of foreign companies.

Future China healthcare industry IT market growth, will be more vendor attention.

International manufacturers, in addition to Intel to digital medical single out, as with digital enterprise, mobile market-by-side of the market, such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco, have set up a professional medical industry sector.

But there are also domestic manufacturers saw this huge market, is founder of intervention, such as the acquisition in the medical industry programmes in five major ISV zbon arranged.

Most notable is the entry of foreign companies, they will undoubtedly make medical information market competition become more well underway.

2, IT gradually expanding the scope of application, more emerging application enters the eye.

HIS unified pattern will be broken, it is broken. Further to the PACS (medical imaging information system) and rapid development, USIS (ultrasound information system), PIS (Pathology information system), CMS (cost accounting system), PEIS (medical information system), also in development, future in electronic medical records, community health and greater health management, also promotes more application.

In the application, will continue to be one of the three steps of the process.

A first step, the billing system and clinical systems; the second step, electronic medical records, structured system, and more conducive to the query; the third step, the workflow engine, master parts development, SOA architecture, more flexible, you can redesign process.

3, medical products and integration at the same time IT got people's attention.

In many medical industry ISV integration products and services, it seems, is to solve the original market low profit margin in the best way is relatively consistent with the Chinese people's habits. While medical information related services are not the main source of profit, but a growing number of ISV start services, do the market do fine.

4, competitive pressure will lead to medical industry information products and services provider enterprise integration between.

Domestic early coming out of the ISV business, survived largely through the introduction of strategic investment to grow bigger, more chances of survival and development. They grow up ISV next is bound through the acquisition of consolidated regional small ISV, get more customers, improve product line, multiplier, to respond to domestic and foreign manufacturers of competition.

5. integration of industrial chain forward consolidation will become mainstream in the future.

For most major ISV, technology is becoming more and more become the threshold of its development, and integration of applications will become the focus of the future competition. Through cooperation with advanced manufacturers, in its platform development, will help domestic manufacturers station to global medical information technology applications. Integration of industry chain, consolidated medical resources, IT will be the application of medical information.

6, as the market matures, the user needs more more rational.

If the medical industry users of it purchase into your rendezvous, impression, rationalization of three, then after several years of application development, and related processes and the application will become the core of the user concerned. And since users on business process and application of more and more, the user needs more tends to rational.

7. medical information technology outsourcing, integration across enterprise IT resources.

From foreign advanced development experience, medical IT systems outsourcing has been a degree of application, but the domestic market also entered the warm-up period. Medical IT outsourcing, to some extent may promote IT resources faster application integration, and promote IT. For example, in order to implement remote medical system, Government, hospitals, research institutions, telecommunications infrastructure operators and large scale IT outsourcing service providers, medical industry, has the potential to ISV integration into a network to promote the development of health care.

8. public health information development in the country.

After 2003, public health information development pace; in 2005, the public health field information requirements have accelerated release of signs; expected from 2007 for the next five years, in different areas of China in the field of public health information development will further accelerate.

9, regional medical information integration requirements will be more releases.

The end of 2006, the Ministry announced the "regional collaborative care demonstration project" major project bear units list, points out the necessity to bring together all our strength to "resource sharing, long service, low cost, low risk," the construction of the building concept, covering health, education, business management, disease reporting and public health services of the information service platform.

In the medical industry reform process, how to fully integrate medical resources to better achieve the patients in the community sector and large referral hospitals, and as a key regional medical information integration solutions will be supporting the development of a key.