Asia has become a new focus of global medical device growth

Business News Agency July 1st As Asian countries such as China, Japan and South Korea quickly enter an aging society and diseases have changed from infectious diseases to cardiovascular diseases, the structure of the Asian medical device market will also follow. Produce profound changes.

There are agencies predicting that in 2011, global sales of minimally invasive surgical instruments such as implantable stents, vascular surgical catheters, heart valves, and artificial blood vessels for cardiovascular or cardiac surgery will reach an astonishing 19.5 billion. ~20 billion U.S. dollars, of which Asia holds a 15% share, ranking third behind the United States and Europe. The rapid growth of the Asian market has therefore attracted the attention of Western economic analysts.

Electronic Diagnostic Imager into the Hospital's General Configuration

Thirty years ago, in addition to advanced diagnostic imaging equipment such as CT in hospitals in highly developed countries and regions such as Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, most doctors in Asian countries still do not know what a CT machine is. Today, Asia has become the world's third largest CT, MRI, high-definition X-ray machines and other large diagnostic imaging market.

It is understood that in Asia, a total of tens of thousands of high-level electronic diagnostic equipment such as black and white or color B-mode ultrasound, thousands of ordinary CT scanners, and hundreds of nuclear magnetic resonance imagers were sold in the past year. Even rural hospitals in some wealthy Asian countries are now equipped with CT scanners, not to mention the relatively cheap B-type ultrasound.

The rapid spread of personal diagnostics for small electronic devices

Another new situation in the Asian medical device market is the rapid spread of small electronic device products for personal diagnostics in many Asian countries.

With the changes in dietary structure in Asian countries, hypertension and hyperglycemia are now becoming a new type of Asian general disease. Therefore, small products such as electronic sphygmomanometers and electronic glucometers that are convenient to carry and use are very popular in Asian countries. Last year, a total of 26 million electronic blood pressure monitors and more than 18 million electronic glucometer products were sold throughout Asia. With the economic development of many countries in Asia and the improvement of people’s living standards, the market size of small electronic diagnostic instruments in Asian countries will continue to expand.

Orthopedic instruments form a big market just around the corner

The number of elderly people in Asia accounts for about half of the world's elderly population. Older people are prone to various bone and joint diseases. Therefore, it is predicted that artificial bone joints, bone cement, artificial bone and other orthopaedic devices will become the Asian medical device market. New hot items.

At present, in addition to economic developed countries such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, the artificial bone joint market in Asia has not yet been truly formed. In the United States and other developed Western countries, millions of artificial bone joints and other orthopaedic appliances and orthopaedic appliances are consumed each year. It is believed that with the economic development of Asian countries, the East Asian region and some of the wealthy Southeast Asian countries are expected to become new sources of growth for the international artificial joints and orthopaedic devices market.

Western economic analysts are optimistic about the prospects for the development of the Asian medical device market. There is another basis, namely, Vietnam and Indonesia, both formerly perceived by the West as a new rise of the underdeveloped countries. The total population of the two countries is close to 300 million, and the GDP growth of both countries has been faster in the past few years. This laid the foundation for the two governments to increase their national health expenditures. At present, regardless of Indonesia or Vietnam, the configuration of medical equipment in township hospitals is not satisfactory. If the rural hospitals in these two Southeast Asian countries with large populations can deploy advanced medical equipment such as B-mode ultrasound, CT or high-definition X-ray machines, the Asian medical device market will increase sales by at least 15% per year.