GE, Siemens, Philips control 70% Medical Device Market

Drawing: Huang Jing Our country each year to spend hundreds of millions of of dollars of foreign exchange from abroad to import a large number of medical equipment, domestic nearly 70% of high-end medical device market has been divided into developed countries, nuclear magnetic, M R, C T and other medical equipment market is mainly concentrated in G E, Siemens and Philips and other foreign companies. One side is that the patient complains that the diagnosis fee is too high, while the hospital is complaining about the cost.　　This is the Chinese medical profession has many years of vicious circle. Guangzhou a three district courtyard, a common head C T diagnosis to 500 to 800 yuan, high-end some petct diagnosis to thousand yuan. While the patients complained about the high diagnostic fee, the attending physician to the reporter calculate, buy g e Machine spent more than 40 million, not including special operation, the daily depreciation of the machine costs more than 1000 pieces, "If the machine again a point of failure, the multinational companies can be high artificial, more than 100 U.S. dollars per hour,　　So we are keeping the machine. " But the cycle will be broken by China's own technology. May 26, Neusoft Group (600718), a subsidiary of Neusoft Medical System Co., Ltd. self-developed PET (Positron emission tomography) successfully developed in Shenyang, filling a gap in the field of large and sophisticated medical equipment in China, and obtained the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) certification.　　Neusoft has become the first company in China to produce and sell pet to the international market. This is a landmark event that can change the structure of ecological trading in the upper and lower reaches of the entire medical industry. Chinese companies have finally won the world's most difficult to enter the U.S. high-end medical equipment market passport, the East soft as the representative of the "Chinese price" will break the long-standing international monopoly, in health reform brought about 28 billion medical equipment in the big market, no longer hand over to wipe the palm of the multinational companies.　　More importantly, the high cost of medical care will be reduced.　　Is the inspection fee high or is it losing money?　　Both sides have been complaining about the doctor-patient conflict has become China's most bizarre pair of contradictions, among them in the medical diagnosis cost is more hot ——— patients accused of high prices, to the cold for example, drug injections may be dozens of yuan, but various rely on equipment to complete the inspection, the charges may be as high as 1000 yuan. But at the same time, the hospital is complaining, "CT, MRI, such as the diagnosis fee is not a ' profit-making pioneer ', but simply to collect costs."　　It is understood that according to the General Hospital pricing, CT, NMR, such as the value of tens of thousands of yuan of equipment, the recovery period will be about 15 years. Two years ago, in the face of this worsening of the doctor-patient conflict, the state also hoped to use policy to regulate the market, such as restricting the importation of high-end equipment, limit the price of patients to check fees, but these guiding policies have finally been dismissed. "The pricing power of high-end equipment is not in our hands, and these devices are not." "This kind of testing, although people are too expensive, but 40% of people who have been examined have changed the treatment regimen," the medical staff of the Guangzhou Zhongshan Hospital explained to reporters. "The big three dominate the 70% Chinese market for medical inspection fees.Virtual high, is "sky-high" medical equipment costs, and "sky-high price" behind, is the three big giant control of the Chinese market status quo.　　Public information shows that China spends hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars a year on foreign exchange from abroad to import a large number of medical equipment, the domestic nearly 70% of high-end medical device market has been divided into developed countries, nuclear magnetic, M R, CT and other medical equipment market is mainly concentrated in G E, Siemens and Philips and other foreign companies hand. Why not use the homemade C T? When the reporter in the hospital interview, was asked the hospital staff expression surprised, "domestic ct can be used?"　　"Looking at the domestic medical device market, provincial and municipal level three hospitals in addition to some conventional expendable products, the main medical devices are goods rule, even the county level of the level two hospital, but also 2/3 of the medical equipment imported; only in the township, the street level hospital to use made more. Domestic C T has been developed for ten years, why several multinationals in such a large market can still occupy 70% of the share? Last year, a lawsuit from the other side of the ocean, the Siemens "bribery case" exposed again in the public eye. Siemens is black in China's most lucrative healthcare sector, according to a U.S. Department of Justice document.　　This newspaper has also continuously reported the medical device industry bribery shady, including G E, Philips several giants are suspected of commercial bribery, in the medical device industry 20% of the profit is used to commercial bribery is the industry's indisputable potential planning. Jiren hopes to share new health-care reform in the late 80, China's C t all rely on imports, when the third generation of whole body C T machine price of 500,000 to 1 million U.S. dollars, due to financial constraints, China imports more than 3,000 of the whole body C T, 60% is second-hand CT, are abroad should be obsolete machine. 1987, the country spent 1.5 million U.S. dollars imported from abroad three CT, all paralyzed, foreign experts ran, three machines became scrap iron. Subsequently, China has developed its own intellectual property rights of the C T machine idea, the national six Ministry of the joint project to invest 120 million CT machine, but eventually failed.　　1998, Neusoft developed the first C T (c T machine in the highest technology threshold is the software system), breaking the three monopoly market pattern. East Soft originally in selling Chinese goods c T, multinational companies often warned the Dean, "do not become a victim of national products"; the original domestic C T can only take the "rural Siege City" strategy, those underfunded hospitals will find the East soft.　　But in any case, the entry of domestic C T, began to subvert the industry rules, multinational companies have to drastically implement the price reduction, in supplies spare parts, the multinational Company C T Machine Special small computer replacement one to hundreds of thousands of, and neusoft as long as thousands of yuan. PE T C t is the East Soft spent four years time, put in 400 million dollars to build, before only the United States, Japan can produce. Because of the high technical threshold, the market is highly monopolized (a total of 4 companies worldwide production). Nuclear medicine experts, Beijing Fu Wai Hospital Nuclear medicine director Professor He told reporters that PET is the globalThe state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment, which is the best diagnostic device for diagnosing and treating two major diseases that threaten human life ——— cardio-cerebrovascular disease and cancer, "has historically limited the popularity of this equipment at home." Today, high-end domestic medical services began to go abroad, soft East, for example, has been installed in 55 countries all over the World 300 C T and 100 NMR, in the high-end medical fighting the most intense in the United States also has more than 30 units. This July, China's first PE T will be sold in the United States.　　Unfortunately, there is no access card, but the wall outside the flowering wall incense, jiren also hope to rely on internationalization, to share the new health reform feast. Newspaper reporter Gao Lingyun