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Medical attention to four major trends in the market

In 2007~2010, the annual average growth rate of global medical device sales was over 12%, and the annual growth rate of global drug market sales was around 5% in the same period.

In 2006, the sales of the global medical device market was only 43% of the sales of the drug market; in 2010, the sales ratio of the two major markets was close to 1 to 1.

Over the past 5 years, there have been some significant changes in the global medical devices Market: first, the medical device market growth rate was significantly higher than that of drug market; second, the dominance of the oligarch medical equipment market is more and more obvious; third, medical devices and drugs are integrated more closely; Fourth, to promote the application of digital technology in medical equipment the rapid development of.

Equipment and drug """

According to foreign statistics, in 2007, the sales volume of global medical device market exceeded 300 billion dollars, and in 2008, it was 336 billion US dollars; in 2010, this figure increased to 398 billion US dollars. In the past 4 years, the annual growth rate of global medical device sales reached 12%~13%, while the annual growth rate of global drug market sales was only around 5%. In 2006, the global medical device market sales equivalent to the pharmaceutical market sales of 43%; and in 2010, the two largest market sales is almost on an equal footing".

The dominance of oligarchy is becoming more and more obvious

Different from the "multi, small and scattered" situation of China's medical device industry, the medical device industry in developed countries has formed an obvious "oligarchy" situation, and the global medical device market is showing a similar pattern.

According to the European Medical Device Industry Association, the sales volume of 25 medical device companies (70% of them are headquartered in the US) account for more than 60% of the total sales of the global medical device market. The 25 medical device companies according to the sales order is: 1. Johnson company; 2. general medical; SIEMENS 3.; 4. Medtronic Inc; 5. Baxter instruments company; 6.Covidien, 7.; PHILPS 8.; Boston Scientic Corporation; 9. Roche 10.Box; 11. Albert company; 12.Stryker company; 13.Cardinal health, 14.; Olympus Corporation; 15. 3M company; 16.Zimmer Holdings; 17. St.Jude; 18.SNN, 19.; Backman; 20.Synthes; 21.Terumo; 22.Fresenius; 23.Alcon; 24.Carestream; 25.CR Bard.

The main products of these companies cover cardiovascular diseases, such as stent, pacemaker, imaging diagnostic equipment, orthopedic and orthopedic devices, surgical instruments, in vitro diagnostic products and health materials.

The application of digital technology is unstoppable

In recent years, the spread and application of digital technology in medical device products is very rapid. Some researchers use Bluetooth technology to transform existing medical devices and upgrade them to become intelligent products.

For example, in the Bluetooth technology as a platform, researchers developed the patient's respiratory, pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood glucose index of vital signs data via a portable digital monitoring system of a special mobile phone sent to a remote doctor computer terminal. This monitoring system is like a mobile hospital, which has changed the traditional medical model, the doctor never released "can understand the patient's condition changes, but also eliminates the need for patients to the hospital for examination of the trouble, and this system is also the family bed type disease management mode provides the premise. At present, a new portable digital monitor based on Bluetooth technology has been listed in developed countries such as the United States.

The American medical device manufacturer also combines the implanted insulin pump with the automatic blood sugar analysis sensor and introduces the "intelligent insulin pump". This kind of medical device can judge whether insulin pump is needed and calculate infusion dose according to the blood glucose of patients, so as to avoid hypoglycemia and other critical conditions in diabetic patients, so that the treatment is more timely and reasonable. The implanted insulin pumps sold on the market had been able to deliver the drugs at a constant rate at the rate set by the doctor.

Experts believe that the most important technology in intelligent medical devices is embedded software. In the future, the "fate" of many medical devices in the market will depend on the performance of their medical software. And software medical devices such as electronic medical records based on digital technology such as Bluetooth are expected to completely change the existing medical model.

The market for the combination of drugs and weapons will speed up

Another mainstream trend in medical device products is the closer ties between medical devices and drugs. In the last century, medical devices and drugs are basically "prevails".

According to the European Association for medical devices industry statistics, at present, the more popular on the global medical device market of drug combination products: 1. pre filled syringes, liquid prior in the syringe filled with a certain amount of (such as insulin, human growth hormone, vaccine), because the prefilled syringe is extremely easy to use therefore, it is welcomed by the medical staff of 2.; drug eluting stent; 3. implantable insulin pump; sustained-release implantation of 4. IUD (carrying estrogenic drugs); 5. implant materials such as Department of orthopedics, promoting bone cell growth factor containing artificial bone joint, bone cement and other products; 6. with stem cell biology engineering products implanted nano devices.

Experts predict that in the next few years, the combination of medicine and machinery will become a very important product category in the global medical device industry, and its market annual growth rate will exceed 20%.