IDC: China's medical cloud infrastructure service market size will reach RMB 7.01 billion in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 44.6%

Medical cloud vendors have their own advantages and characteristics, competing for the blue ocean market of medical cloud

The rapid development of the medical cloud market has attracted many cloud vendors to enter this field. In order to better support the medical and health management departments and a large number of medical institutions in selecting cloud vendors, IDC has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the major medical cloud infrastructure service vendors in the domestic market and objective interviews with a large number of medical institutions, and summarized and released the "IDC MarketScape: China Medical Cloud Infrastructure Service 2023 Vendor Assessment" report. In this study, a total of nine cloud vendors were finally selected for the report, including (in alphabetical order): Alibaba (Alibaba Cloud), Huawei (Huawei Cloud), Inspur (Inspur Cloud), QingCloud Technology, Sangfor, China Telecom (Tianyi Cloud), China Electronics Cloud, China Unicom (Unicom Cloud) and China Mobile (Mobile Cloud). The vendor evaluation results are displayed in graphical form based on the IDC MarketScape model.

In the construction of medical cloud, these cloud vendors have shown their own characteristics and advantages in cloud computing technology, cloud delivery and operation and maintenance, cloud integration and migration and support services, market development strategies, etc., and the vendors are using their own advantages to actively expand the market. At present, medical cloud is basically a blue ocean market. These cloud vendors selected for evaluation have maintained a rapid development momentum, and have gradually formed mature cloud solutions with medical industry attributes in the practice of medical cloud implementation, forming the advantages of medical cloud, and have established a large number of successful cases, gradually forming brand advantages, laying the foundation for the future development of China's medical cloud market and the comprehensive development of the medical digital transformation service market based on medical cloud infrastructure.

Through this research report, IDC has the following important findings for reference by medical and health institutions and cloud vendors:

• Medical cloud carries the information operation of smart hospitals, medical communities and health clouds. Medical cloud can be in the form of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud composed of public cloud and private cloud. In the medical cloud solutions of cloud vendors, how to organically match public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud and gradually form their own characteristics has become an important direction.
• When adopting medical cloud infrastructure services, medical institutions need to consider not only basic cloud services, namely basic cloud services including computing, storage, networking, security, disaster recovery, etc., but also emerging technology applications such as health and medical big data, medical artificial intelligence including large models, and edge computing. The demand for cloud computing computing power and cloud services. The PaaS layer services in the medical cloud are being explored and are expected to enter a growth period in the next three years.
• With the explosion of demand for medical cloud, the delivery, operation and maintenance of medical cloud infrastructure services will become increasingly busy. Medical institutions have relatively high requirements for delivery and maintenance. While cloud vendors are improving their medical cloud products, they are also strengthening their delivery, operation and maintenance capabilities.
• The construction and operation of the medical cloud cannot be completed independently by cloud vendors alone, and various application systems need to be migrated to the cloud. The migration to the cloud requires cooperation among cloud vendors, application software vendors, and related system integrators. The more tacit the cooperation among these parties, the better the effect of the cloud service.
• Medical cloud has its own industry characteristics, which requires cloud vendors to develop corresponding products and services for medical cloud computing according to the requirements of the medical industry, gradually establish unified industry standards, and support the openness of medical cloud, so that medical cloud can become the hub and cornerstone of medical digital transformation.
• The rapid development of medical cloud infrastructure has played an increasingly important role and influence in the construction of medical informatization. In the future development, medical application systems are also gradually adopting cloud deployment and cloud-native technologies, and the entire medical informatization system will fully adopt cloud computing technology.

Xiao Hongliang, senior research manager of IDC China , said that medical cloud infrastructure services have been recognized by health and medical commissions at all levels and various hospitals, and the construction of medical cloud is accelerating. When selecting cloud vendors, health and medical departments and medical institutions at all levels should choose cloud vendors with corresponding capabilities and strategies based on their own needs for medical cloud infrastructure services. They should not only examine the level of their cloud computing technology, but also comprehensively consider their delivery, operation and maintenance capabilities, as well as their capabilities and development strategies for supporting the full adoption of cloud computing technology in PaaS platforms and medical applications in the future.