日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Chinadaily.com.cn
 
Go Adv Search

High-tech devices improve healthcare

Updated: 2012-04-16 09:21

By Liu Jie in Chengdu (China Daily)

  Comments() Print Mail Large Medium  Small 分享按鈕 0

High-tech devices improve healthcare

An image seen through a CT scanner at an international medical equipment exhibition in Beijing. Domestic makers are challenging foreign big names as the Chinese market expands. [Photo / China Daily] 

Domestic startups challenge global giants for a share of vast market

Two-year-old Jiang Jie, who saw his father die of disease and his mother run away from home, lives with his grandparents in Wuyapo village, a mountainous area about a three-hour drive from Chengdu.

The boy is thinner and shorter than other kids of his age and had complained of feeling weak. However, his grandparents were too old and too poor to take him to a hospital in Chengdu, the capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

Luckily, Jiang Jie was examined by a team of doctors who came to his village with high-tech, smartphone-like devices. They diagnosed him as having congenital heart disease.

"The boy can be as healthy as ordinary boys after an operation; otherwise, he may continue to be very weak and die at a young age," said Hu Dayi, the leader of the team and director of the cardiovascular disease department at Peking University People's Hospital.

"Early diagnosis enables patients to get early treatment and may even save their lives," Hu said. "These small, portable, multi-functional devices allow us to better serve remote areas."

The device which may have saved Jiang Jie's life is called Vscan. Priced at $7,999, it was introduced to China last May by GE Healthcare, a medical arm of General Electric Co. It provides ultrasound imaging, measurement and analysis of the human body and clinical detection of various diseases.

"It is like a small mobile scanning room. The compact size, high degree of portability, and simplified user interface make our work easier and more efficient," said Hu.

Vast rural market

In recent years, GE Healthcare has introduced a series of small, portable, and relatively inexpensive devices to China. It is aiming at the nation's vast grassroots market, including hospitals in small and medium-sized cities and counties, as well as clinics in rural areas and urban residential communities.

The US-based medical equipment provider is not alone in China: A group of multinational medical device companies, including Siemens Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, and Toshiba Medical System Co, are developing products tailored to China's grassroots market.

Last June, Philips Healthcare, a subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics Ltd, set up its second Chinese regional headquarters in Chengdu to facilitate a planned expansion in western China.

In October, Siemens Healthcare, the medical arm of Siemens AG, established a research institute, intended to develop high-quality, low-cost imaging equipment to serve China's grassroots communities.

"They are looking at huge market potential here, which is being stimulated by China's new medical reform policies," said Hu Jin, an analyst with Huatai Securities Co Ltd.

In mid-March, the Chinese government issued new medical reform policies, which make infrastructure construction and equipment upgrades at grassroots medical institutions among its top priorities for healthcare in the 2011-2015 period.

According to Guo Fanli, an analyst with China Investment Consulting Co Ltd, medical institutions in China's rural areas account for only 7 percent of the nation's total, while providing service to about 60 percent of China's 1.3 billion people.

"The central government is determined to fundamentally improve grassroots health care services. In 2009, investment in rural medical infrastructure amounted to 2.7 billion yuan ($429 million)," said Guo. He predicted that government funding of this sector will reach dozens of billion yuan by 2015.

Medical equipment sales in China amounted to 135 billion yuan in 2011, about 26.6 percent more than the previous year, according to a report by China Economic Information Network, a domestic information service provider affiliated with the State Information Center. The report predicted that the market will grow rapidly in the next five to 10 years, with a compound annual growth rate of 20 to 30 percent.

Rachel Duan, China president and CEO of GE Healthcare, told China Daily that sales to China's grassroots market will increase to half of the company's business in China within five years, from less than 20 percent at present.

"We will launch 32 new products here over the next three to four years, 70 percent of them tailored to grassroots medical care institutions," she said. "Seven will be launched this year and another 25 are expected in the coming two to three years."

Bernd Montag, CEO of the Imaging and IT Division of Siemens Healthcare, said one of the company's top priorities in the coming years is IT solution development, intended to "cover more patients at less cost". Mobile and wireless technologies, coupled with the Internet, make long-distance diagnosis and data sharing possible. Using portable devices, healthcare personnel can do on-site examinations in inaccessible locations and get professional diagnosis and therapy suggestions from large medical centers, greatly improving grassroots medical services, he said.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

主站蜘蛛池模板: 91国内精品久久久久免费影院 | 国产精品毛片久久久久久 | 中文字幕三区 | 一级毛片视频在线观看 | 国产精品视频一区二区三区 | 久草网站 | 欧美一区二区三区四区视频 | 亚洲欧美天堂综合久久 | 狠狠骚| 欧美日韩高清不卡一区二区三区 | 婷婷丁香综合 | 天天看片天天a免费观看 | 青青草原在线视频免费观看 | 亚洲刺激视频 | 啪一啪日一日 | 亚洲精品视频免费观看 | 涩涩色综合亚洲悠悠色 | 一级片国产片 | 国产色情A片国语露对白 | 夜班护士在线观看 | 日韩中文字幕在线播放 | 精品一卡2卡三卡4卡免费观看 | av网站在线免费观看 | 一级做一级爱a做片性视频视频 | 日本高清成人 | 日韩天天干 | 欧美不卡| 狠狠色噜噜狠狠狠狠97老肥女 | a毛片视频 | 蜜桃视频在线观看www社区 | 91精品观看 | 国产精品免费一区二区三区 | 欧美电影精品久久久久 | 亚洲产国偷V产偷V自拍A片 | 日本在线网站 | 久久久久亚洲精品中文字幕 | 免费国产成人午夜在线观看 | 免费在线观看成人 | 国产成人综合一区二区三区 | 精品久久久久区二区8888 | 中文字幕在线综合 |