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By the year of 2022, it is predicted that almost one third of employment opportunities will be created by medical health industry
【Date：2015.06.12 Source：】By the year of 2022, it is predicted that almost one third of employment opportunities will be created by medical health industry
Since there are more and more wearable devices with the function of steps-calculating and sleep quality monitoring in the market, the data from the monitor of smart devices will turn out to be one of the most important references for doctors during their diagnosis. This is why the market has drawn the attention of considerable investment fund.
According to the report of TechCrunch, entrepreneurs, in America, undertaking in the fields of personal drug, virtual medical treatment, electronic medical treatment and coordinated nursing, etc. have obtained additional initial fund valued 2.6 billion USD and diagnostic skill has also been offered 2.1 billion USD, which mean that a rapid development period for clinical and customer segmentation tool market, like remote observation, is around the corner.
In fact, the market has been attracting wide attention since last year. It is reported by Reuters that Y Combinatator, a start-up accelerator, has entered health & science and technology industry. As expressed by Sam Altman, the chairman of Y Combinator, both the “cost and circle” of the industry has dramatically lowered recently. Referring to the estimation of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2022, approximately one third of employment growth chances are from medical health and social aid industry.
The medical health market in China keeps expanding. As shown by a group of statistical figures in the 14th China equity investment annual forum, the scale of the health industry in China will reach 8 trillion RMB by 2020 and the investment focus in the future should be on mobile medical treatment and the improvement of medical service.
At present, the BAT giant of Tencent, Baidu and Ali has begun to arrange their medical health business. In September 2014, Tencent invested 70 million USD in DXY, an internet-based medical health company. Afterwards, the Wechat access to the registration in the hospitals of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, etc. was provided by Tencent.
Ali launched “future hospital” program, which applied Alipay to medical institutes so as to improve the operative efficiency of hospitals and optimize their resources allocation. It is learned that Ali has reached cooperation intention with fifty 3A hospitals in the major cities. Baidu released “Beijing healthy could” project, which was one of the key members of Beijing cloud technology project to provide, on the basis of big data analysis, professional healthy service for clients.
From:JIEMIAN News
