Emerging Internet giants frequently cross-border into the medical field, this time aiming at medical devices!

After getting involved in the field of AI pharmacy, recently the emerging Internet giant ByteDance has made new moves
.
According to Tianyan Check, on November 8, Xiaohe Medical Devices (Hainan) Co.
, Ltd.
was established with a registered capital of 1 million RMB.
Its business scope includes the production of the first type of medical devices; the sales of the second type of medical devices; the sales of special chemical products; and artificial intelligence.
application software development
.
Equity penetration information shows that the company is indirectly wholly-owned by ByteDance
.
In recent years, with the intensification of aging and the rise of online medical care, medical devices seem to have become a new trend, and the number of industry companies is increasing
.
Data shows that from 2015 to 2019, domestic medical device companies have increased year after year, and by 2019 they have reached 18,000
.
In addition to ByteDance, Internet giants such as Huawei, Tencent, Baidu and JD.
com have already deployed the medical device field
.
For example, in October this year, Huawei’s wrist single-lead ECG collector was officially approved for production (Class II medical equipment).
This also means that Huawei has officially entered the medical device industry and its business scope has expanded to medical device development, production and sales.
; Tencent established Tencent Healthcare in 2016 to provide a variety of solutions such as smart medical cloud and brain tumor assistants, aiming at "Internet + medical health"; In addition, Baidu strategically invested in medical equipment provider Neusoft Medical in 2019, while JD There is JD Health
.
Behind the frequent involvement of major giants, what is undoubtedly their fancy is the considerable market prospects of the medical device market
.
According to relevant statistics, the scale of China's medical device market has been growing in recent years, and it is expected that the market size will reach 768.
4 billion in 2021
.
The industry predicts that with the technological advancement of China's medical device companies and the maturity of the supporting industrial chain, as well as the promotion of national policies such as medical reform and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, China's medical device industry is expected to usher in a golden decade of rapid development
.
It is worth mentioning that although the current domestic medical device research and development has entered a period of rapid development, due to professional technology and conceptual reasons, the domestic high-end medical device market has been monopolized by imported products for a long time. .
According to the analysis of the Industrial Securities Research Report, China's medical device market accounts for 21% of the world's scale, while the domestic market only accounts for less than 4%, that is, nearly 80% of the domestic market share is occupied by foreign brands
.
In order to speed up the substitution of localization, the national policy clearly puts forward requirements for increasing the proportion of domestic medical devices in hospitals
.
Since then, various localities have successively introduced a number of encouraging policies to increase the proportion of domestic equipment purchases
.
Under the influence of favorable policies, as domestic machinery companies continue to make breakthroughs, it is expected that the market share of domestic high-end products will increase, breaking the status quo of imported products monopoly
.
In addition, in recent years, the centralized procurement policy has been extended from the field of medicines to consumables and equipment.
With the normalization of large-scale medical equipment procurement, the industry expects that domestic medical equipment will accelerate the import substitution, and the cost of high-end medical equipment testing will also plummet, which will help patients Bring the gospel
.