The potential of the huge demand of cochlear domestic research and development strength gradually converge (1)

Business Club April 8 rising this year March 11th National "ear care" missionary activity themes identified as "cochlear-rebuild to hope".

To this end, the central financial contribution support poor families of deaf children to wear hearing aids, cochlear implants. This is the Central Finance first funded cochlear rehabilitation projects for aid for persons with disabilities to aid the maximum single time standard. Cochlear implantation is recognized as the international medical community is now able to make the deaf to restore hearing, thereby restoring the only means of linguistic competence, including hearing aids, hearing devices may not be as useful as cochlear can completely solve the problem. The survey due to the low national income, yet most hearing disabled persons unable to use cochlear implants. Coupled with domestic cochlear implantation of mass production is not yet implemented, hence, low-cost domestic on cochlear implantation there is a huge potential demand. Currently, the major cochlear market is Australia Cochlear (earliest development and production of cochlear), the United States Advanced Bionics and Austria MED-EL these three companies held by the product. Japan manufacturers in recent years is also actively developing new electronic cochlea products, but its products are for domestic patients use and not to export. It is understood that the company's Japan Rion cochlear implant has nearly 100 patients, it is said that the effect is pretty good. Clinical application of far behind abroad pursuant to the second national survey data projections for persons with disabilities, persons with disabilities in our existing hearing 2780 million annually in newborn hearing handicapped children 2.3 million. In addition, the drug causing hearing loss situation in our country's children are not unusual. Global vision, deaf and mute is disabled in the largest groups. Both for deaf children, or adults who acquired deafness, a cochlear implant is a good idea to restore hearing in electronic medical device products. Cochlear, also known as "electronic cochlea", although its size so small, it contains an extremely complex electronic circuits and language processor, implanted electrodes and language (digital) encoder, and other components. As early as the 1970s that has been in Australia, Norway, Finland and other countries for the clinic. 1984 United States FDA approval of cochlear implants as an import three types of medical devices in the market. To date, at least 12 million deaf (half-deaf children) installed a cochlear implant. Cochlear's prices are very expensive. In the United States, the implantation of a cochlear implant, the total cost of an average of 4 million 1.5 million ~. Ten years ago, my install a set of imported cochlear total cost to $ 2, although the price several times, but so far the total cost is 18 million, non-ordinary wage-earners who can bear. It is because of the low purchasing power, domestic enterprises to develop cochlear's power is insufficient, resulting in a long time my main source of cochlear implant are dependent on imports. Near that CDPF has launched over the next three years to 500 free installation of poor families of deaf children with cochlear's plan, by the State Treasury direct funding. But this "1500" on a large number of deaf children crowd simply difficult to solve the problem, or the need for domestic enterprises to increase the intensity of research and development of cochlear, launched for the domestic consumption of the product to fill that gap. Domestic medical profession that is best able to cochlear price drops to 3 million or less in order to improve the accessibility of this product.

The gradual convergence of domestic research and development strength