LED light source application of medical lighting prospects

Hospital lighting is mainly to meet the needs of the diagnosis and treatment and the patient's daily life. It has bright and comfortable features. It has specific requirements for the light source and the surrounding colors in order to achieve the purpose of correct observation and treatment of the disease. The ideal medical lighting source should be capable of continuously adjusting the color temperature, illuminance, and light density as needed. Compared to conventional light sources, LEDs can easily achieve these requirements. According to statistics, by the end of 2010, the total number of medical and health institutions in China reached 937 thousand, and hospital lighting has formed a huge commercial market. LED industry began to lock this new blue ocean market, LED light source began to be gradually applied to medical equipment. The 2012 “Top 10 Best Practices for High-efficiency Lighting Power-Saving Technology” released by the National Energy Conservation Center included a case in which the LED integrated lighting scheme was applied to hospitals.

In the past two years, LED special lighting has made great breakthroughs in the application of medical equipment. According to sales statistics of medical lighting, last year, the proportion of LED products in all areas of hospitals has been rising, including the application of LED inspection lamps in the national treatment room. Accounting for 10%, LED headlamps in the national operating room, emergency room applications accounted for 10%, LED film viewers in the country's X-ray equipment applications accounted for 25% of the market share. The LED surgical shadowless lamp is recognized by the medical community as a new generation of surgical equipment. Last year, the LED surgical shadowless lamp accounted for 20% of the market share in the operating room in the country. Surgery shadowless lamps are very expensive indoor lighting products, but the market is very large, an average of 250,000/set, the annual demand of 14,000 units, the output value of about 3.5 billion, equivalent to 3.5 billion 100-watt incandescent lamp output value. With the implementation of policies such as New Rural Cooperatives and New Medical Reform, the hospital will be relocated and relocated at a rate of 15% each year. The market capacity is about RMB 7.5 billion. The construction of green hospitals for energy saving and emission reduction is particularly important. It can be seen that the opportunity for LED lighting to fully enter various fields in hospitals is maturing.

And the hospital is a big electricity consumer of Xu Liangliang 24 hours a day. If all the lights are replaced with LED lights, the hospital can save a lot of electricity bills, and it is also a response to the national energy-saving emission reduction call. It is also possible to introduce the EMC model into the hospital and help the hospital to popularize the LED on a large scale. Hospitals consume large amounts of electricity and can earn profits for enterprises through EMC.

Although it is advantageous to be unprecedented, in China, the lighting products used in the medical field, besides the indoor and outdoor functional lighting fixtures, belong to the category of medical devices, and the entry threshold is relatively high. The products of manufacturers must be subject to the State Drug and Food Supervision Bureau. license. General LED lighting companies do not belong to the medical industry, supporting difficulties. However, enterprises with medical equipment qualifications do not understand the characteristics of LED lighting and thus form a blind spot, allowing foreign products to enter the market.

The application of LED light sources in medical devices can not only save energy, but also bring health care to health care workers and patients. Therefore, the development of LED medical lighting and phototherapy equipment is an inevitable development of science and technology, but also an urgent need for medical lighting in China.