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Medical devices refer to instruments, equipment, appliances, in-vitro diagnostic reagents and calibrations, materials and other similar or related items directly or indirectly used in human body, including required computer software.
Medical instruments include medical equipment and medical consumables.
Utility is mainly obtained by physical means, not by pharmacology, immunology or metabolism, or although these means are involved, they only play an auxiliary role.
The purpose is to diagnose, prevent, monitor, treat or alleviate diseases; Diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, mitigation or functional compensation of injury; Examination, substitution, adjustment or support of physiological structure or process; Support or sustain life; Pregnancy control; By examining human samples, information can be provided for medical or diagnostic purposes.
The medical device industry involves many industries, such as medicine, machinery, electronics, plastics and so on. 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, which is the crystallization of modern high-tech in many disciplines and fields. Its products have high technical content and high profits, and are the commanding heights of competition between major scientific and technological countries and large international companies, with high entry threshold. Even in the sub-sectors with low gross profit margin and low input, high-tech products will continue to emerge, from which some enterprises with strong profitability will be bred. Therefore, the overall trend of the industry is high investment and high income.
Medical imaging equipment is an indispensable part of hospital medical equipment and an important embodiment of hospital comprehensive strength, which not only provides an important guarantee for clinical diagnosis and treatment, but also provides an important platform for clinical scientific research. As a comprehensive platform, imaging equipment plays an important role in promoting the development of hospitals.
With the development of China's medical industry and the upgrading of some hospital equipment, the market demand for medical imaging diagnostic equipment in China has increased rapidly in recent years, which objectively promoted the development of China's medical imaging diagnostic equipment industry. In the process of rapid development, some enterprises have grown and formed certain competitiveness, and the market share of domestic medical imaging diagnostic equipment has increased.
About 15% of medical devices in primary medical and health institutions in China are products around the 1970s, and 60% are products before the mid-1980s. Their upgrading process is also a process of demand release, which ensures the rapid growth of China medical device market in the future 10 or even longer. With the deepening of reform and opening up, the increase of state support and the acceleration of global integration, China's medical device industry has developed by leaps and bounds.