Medical devices are instruments, devices, apparatus, in vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrators, materials, and other similar or related items, including the computer software required, directly or indirectly for the human body.

Utility is obtained primarily by physical means, not pharmacologically, immunologically, or metabolically or, while there is such a mode of participation, only serves an auxiliary role.

The purpose is the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or remission of the disease; the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, mitigation or functional compensation of the injury; the examination, substitution, regulation or support of the physiological structure or physiological process; the support or maintenance of life; By examining samples from the human body, it provides information for medical or diagnostic purposes.

Development History

Medical equipment industry involves a variety of industries such as medicine, machinery, electronics and plastics. It is a multi-disciplinary, knowledge-intensive and capital-intensive high-tech industry. The basic characteristics of high-tech medical equipment are digitalization and computerization. It is a multi-disciplinary and cross-field modern high-tech crystallization. Its high-tech products and high profits make it a commanding height for large scientific and technological nations and large international corporations to compete with each other. Higher barriers to entry. Even in the industry as a whole lower gross margin, investment is not high in the sub-sector will continue to have more high-tech products appear and give birth to some of the more profitable businesses. Therefore, the overall industry trend is high investment, high yield.

Medical imaging equipment is an integral part of hospital medical equipment, but also an important manifestation of the comprehensive strength of the hospital. It not only provides an important guarantee for clinical diagnosis and treatment, but also provides an important platform for clinical scientific research. Imaging equipment as a comprehensive platform for the development of the hospital plays an important role in promoting.

With the development of medical cause in our country and the replacement of some hospital equipment, the market demand for medical image diagnostic equipment in our country has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and objectively promoted the development of medical imaging diagnostic equipment industry in our country. In the rapid development, Some companies continue to grow and develop, forming a certain degree of competitiveness, the domestic production of medical imaging diagnostic equipment market share has increased.

About 15% of the medical devices of the national primary health care institutions are products before and after the 1970s, 60% of which were products before the mid-1980s. The process of their renewal is another process of releasing demand, ensuring China's medical device market will grow rapidly in the next 10 years or even longer. With the deepening of reform and opening up, the ever-increasing national support and the acceleration of the process of global integration, the medical equipment industry in China is making rapid progress by leaps and bounds.

Medical Devices As an important part of the pharmaceutical industry, for consumers, the placement of medical devices in medical institutions is second only to the standards that physicians use to judge medical institutions. The state has devoted a great deal of effort to the development of the medical device industry. However, up to now, the competitiveness of the local enterprises in the field of high-end products has remained unbearable in China's medical device industry.