"BIT" concept favored: cross-border mergers and acquisitions in medical IT industry

A cross-border wind across the healthcare and IT industry is leading the direction of the global investment community. According to the morning whistle, the bit concept has become a new investment in health care, bit refers to the new model of combining biotechnology (BT) and information Technology (IT), which will have a revolutionary impact on the future medical field, Research driven by information technology is leading to dramatic changes in the field of biotechnology that will radically alter people's perceptions of health and the way they treat disease.

Public data show that, since 2013, more than 3.7 billion dollars in wind investment has been to the mobile data technology related to the modern medical field, only in the first half of 2014, the investment in this area of the venture capital of up to 2.3 billion U.S. dollars.

According to statistics, a fairly high proportion of these investments have entered various areas related to mobile health, for example, turning smartphones into a sphygmomanometer and using mobile phones to shoot medical-quality photos of the inner ear has spurred technology giants, including Apple, Qualcomm and Microsoft, to start developing mobile health products or investing in such projects.

Another part of the money is mainly in the medical data field. According to McKinsey's estimate, the Medical data field contains more than 300 billion to 450 billion dollars a year, which mainly includes the data collection of smartphone research and development applications and super strong data analysis system and other fields.

The new trend in the future of health care will be new models such as bit, triggering changes in medical technology to revolutionize traditional medical devices to treat disease.

"BIT" mergers and acquisitions accelerate

September 11, Google announced the acquisition of biotech company Lift Labs, involved in the field of medical equipment. Lift Labs to develop daily necessities for people with Parkinson's disease and tremors, Google has increased investment in biotechnology and health-related projects in recent years, in addition to the smart contact lenses that helped diabetics to monitor blood sugar, and acquired a number of biotech companies that are actively laying out in the medical field.

In fact, in addition to Google, other technology giants Apple, Intel and Samsung have been acquiring biotech companies to develop wearable devices or personal applications that have spread their tentacles into health care, while biomedical giants have developed new products with information technology, expanded their medical devices and detonated "bt+it" New trends in medical care.

Medical device companies have also acquired information technology companies, and on September 15, cent bought healthcare IT business services provider TriZetto Corp. at $2.7 billion from private-equity firm Apax. This is the biggest merger deal cent has done so far.

Earlier, Thermo Fisher 13.6 billion dollars in May to acquire the genetic test equipment maker life technologiess. The August US CERNER13 billion dollars acquired Siemens ' medical IT business, creating a new era in the use of information in electronic medical records for advanced diagnostics and treatment techniques.

The new model of "BIT" in China

In recent years, domestic biotechnology and information technology combined products are also heating up, one of the most eye-catching bit of the new model of the product is mobile medical equipment.

At present, China has the world's largest and fastest-growing mobile phone users, so the bit of the product model will be favored by the market. According to incomplete statistics, the current mobile medical app has reached Chiyu, mainly in the face of the hospital's business-to-business model and face the patient's mode of the. The face of professional business support applications such as apricot trees, to meet the needs of medical consultation, doctor, spring, health monitoring management such as nine medical, East Soft Hee Kang, three Connaught Biological and so on.

In May this year, Ihealth, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, announced that it was working with medical companies careinnovations to provide the data to insurance companies after collecting health data from the US population aged 65 and over, while Liu, the chairman of the Medical Board, said the name " Ihealth Align "small blood glucose meter next will be sold at the global Apple Store, the product can be connected to the mobile phone, has passed FDA certification.

August, 5U family doctor, Palm Spring doctor, etc. to mobile medical solutions, respectively, received tens of millions of yuan of financing. This shows that the bit new model is favored by investors.

In fact, as the incidence of chronic diseases increases and the population ages, the need for real-time monitoring of health is rising. Wearable devices and app apps can help doctors better master early-stage information, reduce the need for costly and long-term hospitalization, and believe that the new bit model will open the door to three of chronic disease management, aging and Medicare payments.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)