Medical technology not only brings new impetus to Singapore's economic development. With the transformation of the local medical care system and meet the rapid aging demand, the importance of this industry will also increase day by day.
For Sanwa Group, a local company specializing in precision plastic projects, entering the medical technology industry is an exciting business growth opportunity during the company's transformation.Global Ophthalmology Nursing Multinational Enterprise ALcon (ALcon) just set up factories in Singapore in 2004, Shanghua established a partnership with Alikon to provide plastic shells for Elkan -this is to ensure that contact lenses remain unparalleledBacteria and intact key packaging, which is convenient for consumers to carry contact lenses every day.From then on, the cooperation between the two sides has become increasingly closer.
Nowadays, in addition to providing contact lens packaging to the Elkan Singapore factory, Shanghua also provides Erkang's other factories in the region and more types of plastic shells.Shanghua also cooperated with Erkang to develop a water cooling system, shortening the production process of plastic shells, and expanding the production capacity of Elkon Singapore factory.
Provide development opportunities for local enterprises and employees
The cooperative experience of Shanghua Group and Elkon is just one of the examples of local and multinational companies to promote the rapid growth of Singapore's medical technology industry.Therefore, Singapore's medical technology industry also has the trend of product innovation and manufacturing of medical devices, digital health care, life science tools and in vitro diagnostic diagnosis, and bring new opportunities to Singapore employees and local enterprises.
Singapore's medical technology industry has also witnessed the significant increase in local startups, from 59 in 2010 to more than 300 in 2020.In addition, the contribution of the output value of Singapore's medical technology manufacturing industry has also increased from 3 billion yuan in 2008 to 18.7 billion yuan in 2022.These two strong growth momentum has prompted Singapore's medical technology industry to expand significantly.
The booming development of medical technology has also created many employment opportunities. This industry currently provides more than 16,000 high -tech and high -value jobs for the local area, so that skilled employees can make significant major development and innovation of this industrycontribute.Wu Wenbiao, a senior manager of the R & D department of Bidi Medical Equipment (BD), a multinational medical technology company, is a typical representative of this trend.His innovative projects have obtained seven patents, highlighting the potential of local talents and local science and technology -shaped medical technology.
In addition to the positive impact on local enterprises and employees, Singapore's medical technology industry has also made Singapore the world's leading high -value medical technology product production base.For example, Illumina, a US biotechnology company, (Illumina) produced in Singapore (the genetic testing tool of microcomputers), accounts for more than 90%of the company's global micro -array demand.Illumina is also more than 60%of DNA sequencing consumables in local production companies, including reagents and kits.These products exported from Singapore to the medical research centers around the world for diagnosis and research on diseases.
Medical technology not only brings new impetus to Singapore's economic development. With the transformation of the local medical care system and meet the demand for rapid aging population, the importance of this industry will also increase.
Promote prevention of health care and patient care
It is estimated that by 2030, one of the four Singaporeans will be 65 years old and over, and the demand for medical care will increase significantly.Medical technology can play a key role, strengthen prevention and health care to reduce the incidence and burden of disease, while helping healthcare personnel to improve efficiency and productivity.
For the health SG program that focuses on preventive health care, one of the main measures is to improve digital health applications and wearable devices, so that Chinese people can actively monitor their health status and take necessary actions, Improve your health.Among them, Healthy365 mobile app can provide personal dietary recommendations and other functions after the user records daily diet.
Medical Technology can also help nurses and doctors to complete the work that originally needed to mobilize more people.For example, the smart ward of Alexander Hospital installed with sensors and other equipment on the bed, which can monitor the patient's life signs at any time, send a prompt signal to the nurse when the patient tries to get out of bed, and when the patient is not mobile patients does not move patients without mobile patients, Measure them in weight and reduce the risk of falling out of the bed.
With these smart beds and other technologies, a nurse can pass the "virtual care system" and manage multiple wards at the same time so that the number of nurses of the ward can be reduced by about 30%.This may be of changing significance to meet the growing medical needs of Singapore.
Other practitioners in the medical technology industry have continued to excel the quality of life in terms of helping patients improve their quality of life.Aisyah Mazlan, one of the world's leading hearing aid manufacturers WS Audiology, is one of them.Aijia is an important member of the R & D Center of the WS Audiology Singapore.This R & D center has played an important role in helping patients with cutting -edge technologies to help patients in response to hearing losses, but also optimized production costs, allowing more patients with hearing disorders to afford hearing aids.
Promote the continuous development of the medical technology industry
Medical technology has the potential to promote economic development, create more employment opportunities, and strengthen medical care body.Therefore, Singapore is actively expanding this field, especially to build new medical technology equipment and products, clinical experiments and implementable environments.For example, the Singapore Science and Technology Research Bureau (A*STAR) medical device product research and development center (Medech CatApult), which is established by the government, is designed to accelerate the research and development and productization of local medical technology products.
One of the tasks of the Singapore Medical Devices Products R & D Center is to find new high -value medical technology projects, and give the local medical technology ecosystem capabilities to transform intellectual property into commercial products.To achieve this goal, this plan provides specialized internal product development and product management capabilities, as well as multi -disciplinary engineers, as well as support from quality assurance, supervision and clinical affairs experts.
In addition, Singapore's research, innovation and corporate plans have also promoted the continuous progress of key areas of medical technology, such as launching innovative diagnostic tools and improved medical treatment.One example is the development of micro -flow equipment.This device can accurately analyze a small amount of liquid samples so that medical personnel can perform faster and more accurate diagnosis and testing in the patient's bed or clinic.Local start -ups Sunbird BIO has made great progress in this field, developing a blood detection method that can detect protein related to Alzheimer's disease, which is expected to achieve earlier testing and intervention.
In addition, Singapore's research, innovation and corporate plans also attach importance to the impact of sustainable development on the medical technology industry. Especially through the design aimed to achieve sustainable disposal or reuse, it is not the goal of achieving net zero emissions in Singapore.Coincidence.
This joint effort shows the promise of combining innovation with environmental management while promoting the development of the medical technology industry.This approach not only promotes both medical care and economic growth, but also creates a healthier and sustainable future for everyone.
Dr. Jian Enci is the project director of the research and development center of the Singapore Science and Technology Research Bureau of the Science and Technology Research Bureau
Ying Kunlong is the director of the Biomedical Industry Department of the Singapore Economic Development Bureau
Translation of Lin Huihui
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