Medical electronics market and continued high ratio of most concern

The next few years, China medical electronics market will continue to grow rapidly, while at the same time products to digital, portable and home trend, high performance-cost ratio products attracted the attention of medical device companies.

Because the "CMS" policy and domestic medical equipment business of export, Chinese medical electronics market in the next few years the CAGR is higher than the global average. At the same time, Chinese medical electronic products are digital, portable and home trend. Domestic medical equipment business to rapid development of the market launch of the tide of innovative equipment, research and development and design process and semiconductor device vendors to develop close cooperation, select the cost, performance, appropriate devices to develop more cost-effective medical equipment.

Policy and export of domestic medical e-market growth

Domestic medical e-market attention, according to China's "11th five-year" plan, 2007 is our health care system reform started in years, "CMS" pilot gradually expand the coverage of the 2008 launched in the country, in 2010 the "CMS" to achieve full coverage in rural areas.

In this policy, it is expected that in 2008 China's rural medical market scale will reach 400 billion. The "CMS" policies to Chinese medical electronic market is definitely a good news.

"China local development and production of medical electronic devices not only can you import substitution of more expensive medical equipment, also is expected to export to other countries.

"By Xilinx Asia Pacific product marketing manager-Jamie told reporters. Thus, together, in the next few years the medical electronics industry rapid development in the greeting, its growth rate is much higher than the average growth rate of the global market.

According to the Shanghai-en-consulting firm data, 2007 electronic medical device market size 243.2 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3% more than the global market growth rate of 13.3%.

According to market research agencies, Espicom 2010 global medical equipment market will exceed $ 200 billion, of which, medical electronic devices will account for 45% to $ 900 billion in size. From the Chinese market, the next few years, China medical electronics market with an average annual compound growth rate of 18.2% by 2011, China medical electronics market size is expected to almost $ 50 billion.

The 2007 China electronic business directory of data and statistics show that in 2007 the total medical electronics exports 11.35 billion, an increase of 25.0%, 2008 14.1 billion, an increase of 24.2%, projected 2004-2008, China's total medical electronics exports CAGR at 29.5%.

At the same time, in 2007 the total imports in China Medical electronic about 9.43 billion, an decrease 4.6%. The report found that starting from the second half of 2007, China medical electronics import and export for the surplus. Therefore, the next few years will pull my medical electronics market development.

Digital portable of household into domestic demand hotspots

For high-growth Chinese medical electronics market overall demand characteristics, yadenuo semiconductor technology (Shanghai) co., Ltd. (ADI) greater China Senior Business Manager Zhou Wen sheng to reporters said: "since the Chinese Government gives the Chinese health care system a new mission, namely to expand medical coverage to as many people can better disease to enable rural and remote areas of the masses can get timely and effective medical treatment.

So we have reasons to believe that digital, portable and home of Chinese medical market growth. ”

And this view is similar to Texas Instruments Asia Pacific high performance analog products market development manager, Byung Chan said that on the reporters in the Chinese market, current medical electronics major or biased to large medical devices, for example, many manufacturers are working on MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computer tomography), and other equipment of production, in these areas, medical device development will be digitized.

In addition, as the electronic product upgrade, these equipment diagnosis results will become more and more precise.

At the same time, some manufacturers have also noted that personal or family medical products, such as the family of blood glucose meter, blood pressure and heart of test instruments, and so is rapidly developing, these instruments can help people instantly know what to their health. Today, personal health and medical supplies is moving in the direction of multifunctional, blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate, body temperature, measurement capabilities in one multifunction products have been put into application, and will surely become the darling of the future market.

NXP semiconductors in multiple markets, greater China, senior product marketing manager, Kim Woo-Kit on the market, said that from the market trends, portable, minicomputer could become the main trends in the enterprise, because these products can meet the rapid growth of the rural health care, community health care and home medical market's strong demand.

When it comes to specific product needs, he went on to say that, like the biochemical Analyzer, blood pressure, blood glucose meter, pulse oximetry meter, wireless ECG machine, remote monitoring, and other portable medical equipment and wireless transmission equipment will be widely applied.

The analysis of a beam of Jamie international enterprises and the development of domestic enterprises.

He said that the internationally renowned medical electronics enterprises still occupy a large market share, at the same time, the local enterprise after years of hard work and accumulation, product performance is increasing, the market potential is gradually released. While some domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises to work together to develop the model, is the medical market of another remarkable feature. From the product's development trend, medical diagnostic products such as CT, MRI, etc. will remain Chinese medical electronics market protagonists, and such product price constantly optimize will become manufacturers compete for the market.

Feizhao semiconductor company field application engineer Eddie Suckow also said: "we think the market's biggest growth

Areas will be the patient monitoring fields, and design firms, manufacturers and insurance companies should maintain close cooperation with the General underwriters terminal product application. ”

High-precision low-cost unit is the key to market development

China medical electronics market is widely, but the Chinese medical market to obtain in the next few years, a smooth development of important factors is the China medical device companies and device vendors work closely to device manufacturers have all started work closely with medical device companies.

In close co-operation, Actel Corporation, Senior Manager of product marketing, said the Hezi Saar in those applications to not allow failure (known as the "key" system) applications of high reliability in the field of programmable logic solutions, Actel throughout the development and design process, in close cooperation with customers.

For example, in 2007, China medical device developers and manufacturers of MINDRAY company has carried out close cooperation, help develop MINDRAY company based on Actel FPGA (field programmable gate array) portable monitor closely, this prompted MINDRAY company plans to continue in the next-generation products using Actel's solutions, including monitor equipment, diagnostic laboratory equipment and ultrasound imaging system. "Medical application equipment designers and semiconductor vendors increasingly close cooperation between the two sides will be extremely close methods boost healthcare industry forward. "He said.

And meet the needs of the equipment on device characteristics, Zhou Wen sheng said China medical device company products according to the different target markets different policies: some medical equipment business strategy is how to improve product performance and quality to create or maintain product leadership; other enterprise strategy is how to increase market demand.

These two major policy requires that semiconductor manufacturers are able to offer higher accuracy of the device, and can provide a cost advantage of programmes, or even both.

And specifically to the performance of new devices, beam Jamie introduces said that at present, China medical device companies to reflect the new requirements of the device in several ways: first, the devices as a system core algorithm part is used to complete the higher performance of the core algorithm and the more complex control; the second is support for new standard interfaces such as PCI Express (a new generation of bus interface), SATA (serial advanced technology attachment), Gigabit Ethernet and USB (universal serial excuse); the third is the overall low power or low power consumption mode; the fourth is a flexible configuration and field upgradeable capacity; five are highly integrated integrated consolidation.