The novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in 2020 has directly promoted the digital revolution of China and even the global health care industry. AI, big data, robots, 3D printing, wearable devices, virtual reality and other medical technologies have been combined with each other to promote the whole industry to enter a new pattern.
According to statistics, during the epidemic period, the number of Internet diagnosis and treatment in hospitals under the supervision of the National Health Commission increased 17 times compared with the same period last year, and the consultation volume of some third-party Internet service platforms increased more than 20 times over the same period. Some institutions predict that the scale of China's Internet medical market will reach 200 billion yuan in 2020, with a market growth of 46.7%, which is the highest growth rate since 2015.
"The epidemic has greatly changed the health care service mode. Due to the obstruction of offline treatment, the Internet has become the second battlefield for many hospitals and doctors to fight the epidemic. Internet medicine is a general trend that we could not imagine in the past, but will continue to develop in the future. " Dong Jiahong, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and chairman of the intelligent medical committee of the Chinese Medical Association, said at the 2020 smart medical development forum.
With the continuous popularization and progress of new technologies, the application scenarios of digital health are constantly enriched, and the development space is constantly expanding. Mao Qun'an, director of the planning, development and informatization department of the National Health Commission, said that at present, 30 provinces have established internet medical service related platforms. There are more than 900 Internet hospitals in the country. The telemedicine collaboration network covers all prefecture level cities, and more than 5500 secondary and above hospitals can provide online services.
"It is estimated that by the end of 2019, the number of digital medical users in China has reached 620 million." Chen Baiping, global partner and managing director of Boston Consulting, said that there are more than 1 million doctors who can consult online in China. There are more than 100 third-party medical platforms in China, and the overall user frequency has reached 1 billion times, which is a huge scale.
"At present, the medical and health industry is facing new opportunities for the development of" Internet plus medical health ", especially the arrival of the 5G era, which provides a powerful engine for the development of telemedicine and Internet medicine. Zhou Jun, President of the China Japan Friendship Hospital, said that the construction of smart hospitals has changed the feelings of patients to see a doctor, artificial intelligence has improved the ability of primary medical services, and Internet hospitals are an important way to realize the sinking of high-quality resources. The organic integration of smart hospital, artificial intelligence and Internet hospital is of great significance to promote the implementation of healthy China strategy.
The proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the formulation of the 14th five year plan for national economic and social development and the long-term goals for the year 2035 clearly puts forward the idea of comprehensively promoting the construction of a healthy China. We should give priority to the protection of people's health, adhere to the principle of prevention first, deeply implement the healthy China action, improve the national health promotion policy, and strengthen the national public health protection network to provide people with all-round and full cycle health services.
In this regard, Shen Jianfeng, director of the big data Office of the planning and development and informatization department of the National Health Commission, said that standardization should be used to promote the development of informatization, and informatization should be used to boost the construction of a healthy China. Especially in the current situation of limited supply of high-quality medical resources, emerging technologies can make high-quality resources more widely available to everyone.
The digital revolution has brought unprecedented opportunities for the medical and health industry, but the development of the whole industry is still facing many challenges. Li Qing, vice president of Peking Union Medical College of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, believes that the current data has become an important resource, which makes people reluctant to share their own data, and the phenomenon of data islands is widespread. In particular, medical and health data belongs to personal privacy. How to ensure the safety and ethics in the use of medical data is one of the important challenges faced by Internet medicine.
"Internet plus medical health" needs to increase the coverage of specialist clinics and expand the field of medical services. Dong Jiahong said that the existing internet medical services are mainly limited to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and diabetes, and doctors and patients in many other fields can not better benefit from the current service mode.
"Internet plus medical health" is redistributing traditional medical resources, especially in the pharmaceutical and electronic industry. Li Jianing, head of the medical industry of Houpu investment, said that through the Internet to achieve extensive and low-cost drug distribution, pharmaceutical e-commerce has developed rapidly in the past few years. In terms of figures, the national drug sales volume was nearly 1.8 trillion yuan last year, but the proportion of pharmaceutical e-commerce was very low, the overall scale was still very small, and there was still a lot of room for development.
"Why do we need to develop Internet plus medical health? What? Because this is the trend of the times. " Wang Shirui, founder and CEO of the Federation of Chinese medicine, said, "the traditional allocation of medical resources is hospital-centered. Patients often need to find different doctors, hospitals and places to seek medical advice when they see a doctor. This is not only high cost but also very low efficiency. We hope that through the combination of online and offline, we can maximize the supply efficiency of patient-centered medical services, so that patients can be cured with less running
Source: Chemical Network
