As the saying goes, "Hundreds of good filial piety is the first". The older a person is, the more medical care is needed. As the world's population ages, people's awareness of health care is rising, the demand for healthcare infrastructure is growing, and more and more people need quality health care. This is true in most parts of the world and is particularly important in China, which provides a broader market for a wide range of medical devices .

According to IHSiSuppli's prediction, China's medical electronics will be expanded year by year under the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and other policies. China's population aging process is also accelerating. According to the results of the sixth national census in 2010, more than 13% of the population is currently over 60 years old. This has led to higher and higher requirements for medical care, health, quality of life, and disease care. The medical and health fields are gradually shifting from focusing on disease treatment to health care. These will bring a very broad growth space for medical electronics. By 2016, China's medical electronics market will reach 7.4 billion US dollars, with an average annual compound ratio of 13%. In the field of portable medical electronics, there is data showing that the growth of China's portable medical electronics market is very rapid, and the compound annual growth rate of the Chinese market has been growing at 20-30% for five consecutive years.

China's medical equipment market development trend

Portable medical devices are continually improving the health care conditions of millions of patients. Wu Xiang, manager of market development for Texas Instruments MCU, said: “Many devices such as blood glucose monitors, heart rate monitors, swallowable gastrointestinal (GI) tract detectors, and analgesic implants are constantly improving the quality of life of patients with chronic or acute illnesses. For example, a portable automatic defibrillator can save the lives of emergency patients. The sports watch can not only record the user's heart rate wirelessly, measure the distance, perform step counting, but also realize other functions that can maximize the advantages of aerobic training. In the next few years, there will be more innovative medical applications that significantly improve medical implementation and its effectiveness.

Among the e-health equipment market in China, the most promising areas are various household equipment, including diagnostic equipment, drug delivery equipment and health management equipment. Portable devices that support home healthcare are especially important because older people and patients can use these devices to monitor and manage their health. This reduces the workload of health care professionals, giving them time to focus on the more serious medical problems that may be encountered in community health centers. The main diagnostic equipment for the elderly includes blood glucose meters, blood pressure monitors, digital thermometers and weight scales.

Home administration has a wide range of applications. Simply put, the drug delivery device can remind people to take the medicine on time. More sophisticated drug delivery systems, such as automatic insulin infusion pumps, ensure that doses throughout the day are controlled. The health management system can be any system from a smartphone based application to a dedicated home health terminal. With these systems, people can monitor and track many health parameters to alert to any changes that might indicate a problem.

“One of the most important requirements for any medical device is to make it safe and convenient for the elderly,” said Marten L. Smith, technical marketing manager for Microchip Medical Products . “For example, improving many portable medical devices for the elderly, A more user-friendly interface. Displaceable touch buttons, proximity detectors and touch screens make medical devices more accessible to older people while reducing the possibility of user error and security issues, which can be achieved with Microchip's mTouch technology. As these advantages become more widely known, medical device designers are increasingly concerned with the engineering design of such human factors.

Although engineering design is nothing more than a trade-off between opposing functions, specifications, and space constraints, this balance of trade is often tricky in the portable medical arena and challenges traditional semiconductor companies.

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