Foresight Industry Research Institute relevant statistics show that China's current stage of mobile medical APP has reached more than 2000. The so-called mobile medical APP refers to medical applications based on Android, Apple and other mobile terminal operating systems, which are mainly divided into five types: pharmaceutical product e-commerce applications, such as the "palm pharmacy" that provides drug introduction and drug purchasing services; applications to meet the needs of professionals to understand professional information and query the medical reference materials, such as the "apricot tree forest"; and applications to meet the needs of professionals to understand professional information and query the medical reference materials, such as the "apricot tree forest". "Apricot Grove"; applications that meet the needs of medical search and consultation, such as "Chunyu Palm Doctor"; platforms for booking appointments and guiding, consulting and reviewing medical services, such as "Medical 160"; and segmentation and functionality products, such as recording women's physiological cycles. Functional products, such as "Auntie", which records women's physiological cycle, and "Chunyu Heart Mirror", which measures heart rate, are also available.
Data from the 2014-2018 Analysis Report on Typical Business Models and Construction Design Strategies of China's Mobile Medical Industry released by the Prospect Industry Research Institute shows that the size of China's mobile medical market reached 1.86 billion yuan in 2012, an increase of 17.7% over the previous year. The explosive growth in the number of mobile medical APPs is inseparable from the development of mobile Internet technology and China's medical environment. From the point of view of the scale of the number of mobile medical APP, China's residents to realize the cell phone to see a doctor is not far away.
In 2012, the rapid popularization of smartphones in China, with a user base of 380 million, allowed users to integrate medical services into their daily lives anytime, anywhere: more medical information could be stored in their phones. Location-based services (LBS) can recommend nearby medical locations. Cell phone sensor technology, which can collect physiological parameters, provides new solutions for medical and health services. At the same time, at this stage, China's doctor-patient relationship is more tense, community health care and no shortage of large, specialized hospitals lack of reception capacity, mobile health care to a certain extent to help balance the medical resources around the different places can enjoy the same level of medical services.
Mobile phone medical care is so convenient, but there are still many obstacles to development. The first is the regulation of the industry, the regulation of the mobile medical field is almost blank at this stage, including the accreditation of mobile medical qualifications and services, if diagnosed through the mobile medical APP, once medical accidents and disputes, it will be very tricky, and the relevant legal documents have not yet reference cases. Second is the user's cognition, the survey shows that only 8.6% of users understand mHealth, and 77.1% of users have never heard of mHealth at all. With the development of the domestic mobile Internet, the public's attention to health care, mobile health care will get some growth, but many medical institutions and the government of mobile applications, cloud computing and other concepts need to guide and educate, is expected to enter the rapid development track in 2015. Prospective Industry Research Institute analysis predicts that by 2017 China's mobile medical market size will reach 12.53 billion yuan.