The National Health Commission issued a document of encouragement. Can "cloud film" further cover the medical film market?
On December 31, 2020, the National Health Commission issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Standardizing Medical Behavior and Promoting Reasonable Medical Examinations", which aims to further standardize medical behavior and promote reasonable examinations. At the level of mechanism innovation, medical institutions are required to promote the sharing of examination data by establishing examination data databases or "cloud films".
Image data accounts for about 90% of medical information. For a long time, after patients have completed imaging examinations in hospitals, it has become "standard" for them to carry a large plastic bag containing medical films.
However, due to the lack of mutual recognition of information between medical institutions, patients are often required to take repeated film examinations, which is a waste of patients' expenses and medical resources. After the National Health Commission issued a document, can "cloud film" deeply replace the medical film market? In promoting the sharing of examination data between medical institutions, what role can "cloud film" play?
The "zero-sum game" between electronic film and traditional medical film
The original medical film was X-ray film, that is, blue-sensitive and green-sensitive film. The second is the wet laser film produced by CT and other equipment. The image is first stored in the disk space and printed out on demand. Now, with the development of hospital digitization, only some small and grassroots hospitals are still using blue-green film. Digital medical film has become the first choice for hospitals. Currently, the commonly used "digital medical films" include medical dry laser film, thermal film, and medical printing film. Among them, medical dry laser film consists of a polyester (PET) film base coated with silver salt and a protective layer. The imaging is clear, the film output speed is fast, and the image quality is high. It is used for recording CT, MRI, CR, DR, etc. It is a medical film with a wide range of clinical applications and can be used as a basis for diagnosis. According to the "2019 China Medical Film Industry Status Survey and Development Opportunity Analysis Report", the market size of my country's medical film industry reached 23.087 billion yuan in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 4.97%. Lucky Film's net profit in 2019 increased by 20.12% year-on-year.