Mobile medical apps are getting hot

As the fourth largest medical equipment market in the world, China has a market size of more than RMB 60 billion. With the arrival of the age of urbanization and aging, the medical device industry will emerge with more opportunities. The rapid rise of the mobile Internet, the popularization of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and 3G technologies will make smart medical services that are practical and close to the people's livelihood become a development. Focus, especially in rural areas, the prospects for mobile medical care, telemedicine, etc. are very broad. The medical device industry will gradually enter the real mobile era. Mobile Internet has become the most powerful technical force to promote the industry and even economic and social development.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Qi Hejun, predicts that there will be 500 million mobile medical applications in the world in 2015, and mobile health care will be an important reform measure in China's medical and health care. According to a report from the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) Association, by 2017, mobile healthcare services and applications will generate approximately $11.5 billion in revenue, and equipment vendors, content and application providers, and healthcare service providers will receive 6.6 billion dollars respectively. USD, 2.6 billion U.S. dollars, and 2.4 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.

At the "China Mobile Medical Industry Conference" last year, the leaders of the departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Health all supported mobile medical care. A related person from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology indicated that in the future, it will intensify the exploration of mobile medical service innovation pilots, and further explore the application of information technology such as sensory technology and location services in mobile medical care. The industry believes that with the support of the competent authorities, the average annual growth rate of the medical information industry will reach double digits, and it will drive the rapid growth of network suppliers, system integrators, and equipment manufacturers in the industry chain.