On April 30, at the emergency entrance of Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, an infrared thermal imager was conducting contactless temperature measurement for people in and out.

At the emergency entrance of the hospital of Xi'an International Medical Center, an infrared thermal imager stands quietly in the corner. People passing in front of it have passed the temperature detection unconsciously. Once a fever patient is found, it will send out an alarm immediately. Since the beginning of February, with three sets of infrared intelligent remote temperature detection systems "coming" to Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, the hospital has added three pairs of special "eyes".

This is the epitome of intelligent medical devices helping epidemic prevention and control. The epidemic is promoting the development of the domestic public health system and becoming a catalyst and accelerator for the long-term development of the medical device industry. Medical device enterprises are promoting medical services to become smarter and more accurate through technological and digital innovation to protect people's health.

As some insiders said, under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, we need such medical devices wrapped with "non-contact", "intelligent", "digital automation" and other elements more than ever. Similarly, they will have great potential in helping the intelligent management of the public health system and form a strong market demand.

1. The epidemic highlights the shortage of intelligent medical devices

Novel coronavirus pneumonia novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work was held in forenoon on March 9th morning in Shaanxi province. The news conference said that since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, our province has actively utilized the technology accumulation and leading edge in the fields of artificial intelligence, thermal imaging, face recognition, robotics and so on. In view of the epidemic prevention and control, the human body temperature screening infrared thermal imager has been actively researched and developed in Shaanxi. Non contact medical stethoscope, epidemic prevention patrol robot, unmanned killing inspection robot, epidemic prevention and killing service UAV and other products have successively built a safety barrier for the flow and gathering of personnel brought by the resumption of work and production in railway stations, bus stations, airports, hospitals and other densely populated places in many provinces.

Since the outbreak, a series of products such as temperature screening inspection robot and unmanned killing inspection robot developed by Mei Xuesong team of Xi'an Jiaotong University have been applied in the third people's Hospital of Hubei Province and other environments.

Coincidentally, at the beginning of February, Zhuoer Public Welfare Foundation donated 6 sets of infrared intelligent remote temperature detection systems, including 3 sets in Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, 2 sets in international medical high-tech hospital and 1 set in international medical Shangluo hospital. Pedestrians pass quickly within 8 meters of infrared lens detection. The infrared intelligent remote body temperature detection system can display the human body thermal image and the maximum body surface temperature in only 1 second. The operator can obtain accurate data with a resolution of 0.05 degrees Celsius, which solves the problem that traditional temperature measurement requires close contact of personnel, and can effectively, quickly and non-contact measure pedestrian body temperature, It not only avoids personnel aggregation and cross infection, but also greatly reduces the workload of medical workers and effectively constructs an "intelligent defense line" for epidemic prevention and control.

The medical device industry involves many fields. After the epidemic, some market segments are ushering in explosive growth, including medical robots with disinfection, protection and other functions. The popularization and application of intelligent medical devices such as wearable health monitoring equipment and artificial intelligence assisted diagnosis system have accelerated, changed the traditional disease prevention, detection and treatment mode, and provided a new way to improve the quality of health services.

According to the latest research report of professional institutions, nearly 1 million robots will be used in the commercial field in 2020, of which more than half are professional service robots, which will create an operating revenue of more than US $16 billion, an increase of 30% over 2019.

2 the domestic substitution of intelligent medical devices is accelerating

With the revision and improvement of industry standards, the domestic medical device industry will be more conducive to the development of standardization, standardization and high quality. After the "big test" of the epidemic, the domestic substitution of the device industry has been accelerated.

The development of intelligent medical devices is supported by "hard technology". At the beginning of February, the cross information core hospital located in Xi'an high tech Zone was incubated by the Xi'an Intelligent Diagnostic Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "intelligent diagnosis system of New Coronavirus pneumonia"). Novel coronavirus pneumonia expert assistant Wang Bo said that New Coronavirus pneumonia intelligent auxiliary diagnostic system can complete a large number of suspected cases of chest CT screening in a short time, significantly improve the diagnostic efficiency of new crown pneumonia, greatly alleviate the clinical diagnosis and treatment pressure, so that patients can get early accurate diagnosis and timely treatment, to achieve the purpose of improving the prognosis and reducing the mortality of patients.

In mid February, novel coronavirus pneumonia, a research front-line of Xi'an Electronic and Science University and the first line of disease prevention at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiao Tong University, carried out scientific research on the basis of previous medical imaging research through remote network meetings. The discussion plan and design model were based on the new crown pneumonia suspected by Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, Xi'an Jiao Tong University Second Affiliated Hospital and so on. The novel coronavirus pneumonia CT imaging was diagnosed. By analyzing the CT image characteristics of the patients with new crown pneumonia, a model of early detection and screening of New Coronavirus based on deep learning was designed and developed. The data of novel coronavirus pneumonia patients can be reduced by nearly 80% of the workload. The recall rate of new crown pneumonia patients is over 95%.

The reporter learned from several hospitals in Xi'an that at present, some intelligent medical devices, including infrared intelligent remote temperature detection system and distribution robot, have appeared in the front line of epidemic prevention. The domestic proportion of these devices is gradually increasing.

Industry insiders said that only through the competition between high-quality domestic independent brand products and imported products, the market price of intelligent medical devices will decline and people can really benefit. If we can make up for the shortcomings of domestic intelligent medical devices, many diseases can be prevented, early diagnosis, early intervention and reasonable treatment, and the overall medical expenses will decline, which will be more conducive to the health of the people.

In April 2019, the State Food and Drug Administration launched the scientific action plan for China's drug supervision. In order to speed up the research on Key Technologies of safety supervision of artificial intelligence medical devices, the State Food and drug administration included the research on safety and effectiveness evaluation of artificial intelligence medical devices in the first batch of scientific key research projects of drug supervision. With the enhancement of people's pursuit of health and protection awareness, the state's attention to the medical device industry and the promotion of supporting policies, domestic substitution is expected to become the main melody of the device industry in the future.

3. Great market potential of intelligent medical devices

Nowadays, all kinds of intelligent medical robots have only opened the tip of the iceberg of the medical device industry. The novel coronavirus pneumonia brought about the "big exam" to promote industrial development, and many medical device industries entered the fast lane of development.

In this epidemic, many medical imaging AI companies chose to give up the Spring Festival break for the first time, communicate with doctors on the front line, conduct on-site testing, carry out product R & D and improvement, and actively make their own contributions.

Novel coronavirus pneumonia hospital, from Wuhan's Mount God hill hospital to the more than 20 medical institutions in all provinces and municipalities, talent shows itself in the "epidemic eye" of CT, cloud platform and artificial intelligence new intelligent pneumonia analysis system. In particular, the demand for joint shadow "intelligent sky eye CT" with AI technology and joint shadow X-ray equipment equipped with visual exposure technology has increased greatly.

Not only that, there is also strong demand in the overseas market. Relevant data show that since early March, Mindray medical has received the demand for anti epidemic equipment from many countries in Europe, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and other regions, and many equipment have been sent overseas, including ventilator, monitor and other equipment; Lianying CT also drove into New York, the "hardest hit area" in the United States, giving full play to the power of Chinese medical equipment; Intelligent Dr navigator Shentu has also sent nearly 100 sets of Dr overseas to help countries fight the epidemic.

China is the second largest medical device market in the world after the United States, and the medical device industry is an emerging industry supported by China. After the "big test" of the epidemic, the field of medical devices will attract more new investors. In the future, the demand for intelligent medical products, emergency protective products and in vitro diagnostic products will gradually increase. High end medical devices are expected to become the next hot spot, and the development of telemedicine and intelligent medicine will gradually solve the problem of insufficient medical resources.

Next, in the medical device industry with technology as the core and products as the trump card, whoever can truly and efficiently solve practical clinical problems will win the market. Therefore, medical devices should ensure product quality and strict testing in all links, so as to win trust and market.