The product line is rich, and the home medical device industry is full of vitality

In recent years, with the increasing awareness of people's health care and the continuous emergence of various new technologies, more and more medical device products have begun to enter the family, and the home medical device market has formed and developed rapidly, becoming a new growth point in the medical device indust.
Defining yet to be clarified Category involves a wide range At present, in China's current effective laws and regulations, there is no clear regulation on how to classify household medical devic.
The industry generally believes that household medical devices refer to medical devices such as general diagnosis, physical therapy, and hygiene materials that can be judged, purchased and used by consume.
By referring to the "Guidelines for Technical Review of Home In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Registration" published on the website of the State Food and Drug Administration in December 2020, the author believes that home medical devices can be defined as medical devices that can be used by non-professionals in non-medical environmen.
This description contains 3 elements: non-medical environment, which refers to uncontrolled general use environments outside of medical institutions, such as home, school, office, outdoor (non-wild, relatively stable environment), public places, e.
; non-professionals, refers to Ordinary users who have not been trained or certified, such as consumers who directly use the device, patients, patient family members, and general nursing staff (non-professional nurses); use is a general concept that does not only refer to active interactive behaviors (such as installation, setup, operation, e.

, storage, carrying, cleaning, disinfection, replacement of accessories, troubleshooting, discarding, e.
), as well as passive interactive behaviors such as understanding display information and receiving reminde.
According to relevant regulations and market conditions, the author divides household medical devices into the following categories: detection category, including blood pressure meters, blood glucose meters, electronic thermometers, e.
; treatment category, including household atomizers, magnetic therapy instruments, lumbar spine therapy instruments, e.
; Rehabilitation categories, including home oxygen concentrators, nursing beds, wheelchairs, e.
; health care categories, including massage pillows, massagers, nasal washes, e.
; in addition, infection control products (such as masks) that have been used on a large scale since the outbreak of COVID-19 , protective gloves, protective clothing, protective glasses, e.
), as well as physiological data collection wearable equipment, portable early screening equipment, portable dialysis equipment, blood glucose monitoring equipment, medical beauty products, e.

Rapid market growth and active domestic brands With the aging of the population, the improvement of testing and diagnosis and treatment technologies, and the development of data collection and chronic disease management services, the global home medical device market has shown a momentum of rapid developme.
According to data from Insight Partners, an American venture capital and private equity firm, in 2020, the global home medical device market will reach $3635 billion; it is expected that by 2028, the market will reach $5103 billi.
China's domestic medical device industry is also ushering in a period of rapid developme.
Data from the China Business Industry Research Institute shows that in 2020, the market size in China will reach 133 billion yuan; in 2021, the market size is expected to be 156 billion yu.
In the past two years, the overall sales revenue and net profit of listed household medical device companies have been in a state of rapid grow.
It is worth noting that the performance of various companies is quite differentiat.
Some companies have experienced a decline in performance to varying degrees due to various factors such as the epidemic and increased costs; while masks, infrared thermometers and new crown virus detection products and other epidemic prevention materials production The company performed outstanding.
At present, in China's home medical device market, foreign brands mainly include Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, Bayer, e.
There are many domestic home medical device manufacturers, and listed companies include Yuyue Medical, Kefu Medical, Sannuo Bio, Lude Medical, e.

It should be noted that, from the perspective of the main business composition, the business composition of many domestic medical device companies is diversified, such as including both household and non-household medical device business segmen.
At this stage, the common domestic medical devices with large sales in the market mainly include blood glucose meters, blood pressure meters, oximeters, thermometers, household atomizers, household oxygen generators, physiotherapy instruments, insulin injection supplies, nursing beds, wheelchairs, e.

The market competition of different categories of household medical devices is relatively fierce, and the brand pattern has been initially form.
For example, in the blood glucose meter market, brands such as Sino Bio, Yuyue Medical, and Yicheng Bio have emerged; the thermometer market is divided into traditional thermometers and electronic thermometers, involving many brands, including Kefu Medical, Beercom e.
; in the household atomizer market, more than ten brands such as Oxygen, Jiaruikang and Aihujia occupy most of the market share; some leading brands have also appeared in the household oxygen concentrator market, such as Haier, Jumao, Deere.
In addition, in the past two years, the household medical device market has been active in funds, and corporate mergers and acquisitions have been freque.

For example, Yuyue Medical received a 5993% stake in Zhejiang Kailit Medical Equipment .

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, focusing on continuous blood glucose monitoring, blood gas and electrolytes, point-of-care testing (POCT), diabetes management and other fiel.

Lude Medical subscribed 22% of the shares of Shanghai Berry Electronic Technology .

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, focused on blood oxygen and monitoring products and other fields, and increased its chronic disease management product li.

Kefu Medical acquired about 54% of the equity of Jirui Medical Equipment (Shanghai) .

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, focusing on rehabilitation aids such as electric wheelchairs and manual wheelchairs; in addition, Kefu Medical acquired Acorn Trading (Shanghai) .

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100 for 177 million yuan % of the equity, focusing on posture correction, shaping, massage, physiotherapy equipment produc.

Based on the overall analysis of the home medical device market, the author believes that the home medical device industry will continue to maintain a growth trend in the future, and will present three development directions as follo.

Data-based and networked core monitoring indicators Household medical devices have the characteristics of being used in non-medical environments and by non-professiona.

From the perspective of disease types, many products are related to hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, sports injuries,e.

Such chronic diseases generally require long-term medication or physiotherapy, and relevant health data such as blood pressure, heart rate, ECG, and blood sugar are important basis for medication or physiothera.

This type of data has been accumulated to form real-world data, which has important reference value for the maintenance of family members' physical heal.

Taking blood glucose monitoring as an example, a continuous blood glucose monitoring system (CGM) can continuously monitor the blood glucose level of patients 24 hours a day, and issue a low-level or high-level alarm through a user-defined threshold to remind the monitored person of low blood sugar or high blood sug.

Hyperglycemia is helpful for timely treatme.

In addition, CGM can act as an artificial pancreas in combination with an insulin pump, enabling automated monitoring and treatment with little or no manual interventi.

Home use of POCT products In recent years, more and more POCT products have gradually entered the home market, and many normalized chronic disease management and testing products will be gradually transferred from the hospital to the outsi.

Since urine, saliva, feces and other samples can be obtained at any time in the home environment, if patients need to seek medical treatment, they can conduct preliminary tests on such samples at home and obtain test results; if remote medical treatment is realized through Internet hospitals, It can better improve the patient's treatment experien.

At present, the global new crown pneumonia epidemic continues to spre.

In order to avoid mass gatherings, telecommuting and telemedicine have gradually become new tren.

Under the normalization of new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control, home self-testing is expected to become a popular diagnostic method, especially as more and more new coronavirus antigen detection products are approved for marketing, which can greatly reduce the number of hospitals or centralized testing places while increasing convenien.

The probability of infection will also help reduce the pressure on large-scale testing in medical institutio.

Product miniaturization With the development of miniaturization of electronic components and the continuous improvement of processing accuracy, various household medical devices are gradually developing in the direction of miniaturization and portabili.

At present, in addition to common small household ventilators, defibrillators, nebulizers and other medical devices, portable ventilators, portable insulin pumps, household hemodialysis equipment and other small devices are also emergi.

At present, although the above-mentioned miniaturized products have not been widely popularized due to factors such as core components, supply chain, and price, it is believed that with the advancement of research and development technology, the expansion of production scale, the reduction of various costs, and the accompanying patient recognition With the continuous improvement of the degree of care and the growing demand for home-based care, such small household medical devices will gradually be widely promoted to further meet the health needs of the peop.