Medical imaging equipment development requires technical updates and discipline integration

Small-to-bedside b-, 64-slice CT, imaging equipment in the hospital medical equipment in occupies almost half of the country.

As the Chinese Hospital Association Dai Jianping, said: "imaging equipment as an integrated platform for hospital development plays an important role in promoting. "The industry generally believe that the Government was firmly push the new health reform process, the Chinese may be in the near future to become the world's largest medical device market and country of manufacture. However, in the face of tremendous potential for development, how to promote the healthy development of the market, improve efficiency in the use of imaging equipment became the focus of attention in the industry. In the recently held sinopharm 2010 China Medical Imaging Strategy Forum, the experts suggested that should the discipline through technology update and promote the medical imaging market integration.

Indispensable to the comprehensive platform

"Medical imaging equipment is the hospital medical equipment is an integral part, is also an important hospital comprehensive strength, demonstrated not only for clinical diagnosis, treatment, and providing important safeguards for clinical science research provides important platform.

"The Second Secretary of the Communist Party of China Medical University Hospital, Chinese Radiology society member Prof Guo Kai told reporters that the current General Hospital each year for imaging equipment purchase amount in the hospital's annual income of around 5%," which, ultrasound and x-ray is basic equipment that must be satisfied, Doppler ultrasound and 3-d/4-d ultrasound is the icing on the cake, sufficient to meet the clinical needs of the whole. At the same time, CT is becoming secondary hospitals than necessary, 64-slice CT has become the third level above the standard equipment in hospitals. "

However, expensive imaging equipment investment can bring to the hospital? reliable receipts at the recently held sinopharm 2010 China Medical Imaging strategy Summit, the participating hospital were unanimously of the view that, in the General Hospital, CT, PET, DSA and other large equipment, input-output ratio is "more effective".

Kim Yong is Guo uses examples to illustrate a tertiary hospital purchases in 2005 were worth $ 3 million in the same year check ultrasonic device for $ 315 million in revenue for the second year income million after few years check revenue growth to $ 7 million per year, 5 year total reached 5 times the amount of input-output ratio. "Even when counting depreciation, imaging equipment still on clinic and hospital management has great contribution. "A family of three hospitals, Dean said that even an ordinary x-ray photographic such routine examination, by increasing the level of the device, increasing digitalization, can greatly enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the inspection, to clinical diagnosis and treatment with better support.

However, some experts said that Beijing development and Reform Commission has research imaging equipment, usage, three hospital equipment usage and good rate is State-of-the-art, equipment every day from morning to night, almost 24 hours operation; however, the same device in some secondary hospital usage is very low, at the same time with the waste of resources, equipment and technology behind the problems.

"Therefore, hospital managers, should focus on the effective use of video equipment. "In China Hospital Association Dai Jianping, accelerating device updates and achieve reasonable configuration more important that hospitals should strive to put the device maximum use, and invest funds to good use.

Promotion of industrial integration technology update

"This is the same as with stethoscope can carry b-equipment, I hope that future clinicians can also be used.

"Dai Jianping on imaging equipment areas of future technology updates full of expectation. Currently, the enterprise production like tape size of wireless digital monitor, in his view, this type of mobile wireless devices can be hospital treatment of boundary greatly expand. "

The "technology development has greatly promoted the clinical efficiency.

Kim Yong "Guo to x-ray photographic equipment for example, digital imaging equipment DR efficiency is probably a CR, can effectively reduce double patient wait times, improve diagnostic efficiency, meet to share clinical data transmission, etc. "Especially in emergency first aid, CT has become an integral part of medical means. Kim Yong think "Guo, large hospital should be equipped with emergency CT, CT quantities can be equipped with 2 units, General Hospital, the main models of the CT should be 64-slice CT, research hospital should be equipped with more than 64-slice CT.

New technology to medical imaging development brought more possibilities.

From Taiwan Province of China-and hospital Charles-Dean, Taipei Medical University currently has seven colleges, three affiliated hospital, all of a piece of image data transfer. "Every physician have their own virtual space that is used to store various imaging of the inspection report. For exception section, the system will automatically send the newsletter to the doctor. Even if he is at home, you can also see through the network, or even participate in emergency cases and consultation. "It is noted that Taiwan Province set up a centralized image Exchange Center, and hospitals can put your own image transfer to Exchange platform that facilitates patient flow and consultation of data transmission. Wu Hung, remote technology perfect for imaging development lead to larger space, "we can immediately assess the need for air referral can even be sent emergency helicopter to Kunshan reception. ”

Experts believe that Imaging will set embedded in hospital management, IT technology and consulting solutions.

"The equipment will be more and more advanced, but how to integrate advanced equipment and information service system together is more important. "Neusoft Group Vice President Lu zhaoxia told reporters that in recent years China's medical industry growth rate is much higher than the GDP growth in 2008 to 2010 large equipment growth 27.8%, and gradually from large cities to rural hospital, customer demand is from a single device needs to service, education, consulting, training, the development of comprehensive needs. Because of this, in Shenyang successfully launched the health management scheme, Neusoft has entered the Tangshan 5140 more village, in each village installed all-in-one million residents, collecting health information. "Next, Neusoft in Hainan, Wuxi, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Anshan, and other cities ' health management, health city ' concept. ”

Application competence

Upgrading critical

Guo Kai Yong said, "Although large-scale equipment configuration is an important part of the core competitiveness, but clinicians for a comprehensive understanding of image diagnosis and raise even more important.

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It is precisely because the new imaging method and device for clinical diagnostics, development and improvement of scientific research has an important role in promoting, Vice President of ginger yuxin Concord hospital and other medical imaging experts suggested that attention should be paid to the position of clinical diagnostic imaging, imaging devices, centralized management, and manpower planning.

Shengjing hospital's Radiology Department since 2002 through PACS for images stored centrally, through fiber-optic cables to two branch areas form a closed ring, completed the data remote transfer. It is understood that, shengjing affiliated hospital and its Union Hospital Center, is the use of electronic signature mode complete electronic report card, and centralized print. The first half of this year, only to focus print this saving films, and other consumables 260 million.

There are experts, medical imaging to come a long way, it is necessary to increase the added value of doctors, and not rely solely on the device.

"Operator and write reports, directly related to the diagnosis and treatment. "People's Liberation Army General Hospital in nuclear medicine department director Mr Jiahe Professor imaging technology development on the doctor put forward higher requirements, only medical diagnosis technology and device update matching, can improve the diagnosis and treatment.

Improving the capacity of the application, requires not only the efforts of the medical profession, for a large number of local hospitals, the device manufacturer's service and support is particularly important that they should be more involved in the construction of basic medical institutions, to physicians with more specialized information.

Dean Professor Wang Shan Beijingdaxuerenminyiyuan believes that the future application of force is also reflected in a hospital outside of the "financial flow, data flow, business flow-in-one", "using the network to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, changes in service mode. ”

In Wang Shan, the future of Imaging must be integrated with other disciplines, the establishment of a "highway" to break a single hospital "invisible barriers", so that each individual's health records to quickly run.

"Previous magnetic resonance imaging to spend $ 2000, has now been reduced to $ 800. "He said, must be brought about by technological progress is reducing the costs of treatment and diagnosis and treatment of efficiency.