{"id":9663,"date":"2019-08-08T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/?p=9663"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:19:26","slug":"asia-pacific-healthcare-market-outlook-for-2020-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/ghi-analysis\/asia-pacific-healthcare-market-outlook-for-2020-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific Healthcare Market Outlook for 2020 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everywhere you look, the Asian Pacific (APAC) healthcare market is showing steady growth with no signs of stopping. The <em>Economic Times<\/em> projects that the Asian healthcare market will grow by almost $200 billion between 2016 and 2020, to a total value of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"$2,660 billion (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/miscellaneous\/asian-healthcare-market-to-grow-over-2660-billion-by-2020\/articleshow\/61036651.cms\" target=\"_blank\">$2,660 billion<\/a>. In 2019 alone, growth in the Asian healthcare market is projected to be 7.2% due to major <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"increases in hospitals, home care and medical tourism (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/86e2347eb12b494a9fb8557808022fcb\" target=\"_blank\">increases in hospitals, home care and medical tourism<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One big factor fueling all of this growth, of course, is a rising elderly population. In Southeast Asia alone, the rate of those over the age of 65 is projected to triple <a href=\"https:\/\/theaseanpost.com\/article\/aseans-growing-demand-medical-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"between 2016 and 2050 (opens in a new tab)\">between 2016 and 2050<\/a>. Other factors that are contributing to the growth of the healthcare market in Asia are ever-advancing technologies that are changing the face of hospitals and medical devices. Technology is also leading to advances elsewhere, such as electronic medical records, telemedicine and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, of course, has spurred an explosion in <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/ghi-analysis\/6-asia-pacific-growth-markets-for-medical-equipment-and-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"medical device sales throughout the Asia-Pacific region (opens in a new tab)\">medical device sales throughout the Asia-Pacific region<\/a>, but that\u2019s far from the only growth sector. In this article, we\u2019ll focus on the many areas in which the Asia Pacific health market is growing aside from medical devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#1) Hospitals, Hospitals, Hospitals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One surefire sign that the growth in the Asia Pacific healthcare market is real and long-lasting is this one: Existing hospitals are continuing to grow and expand, and new hospitals are still being built at a rapid rate. Of course, growth of this nature is occurring everywhere, but one great barometer for Asia is the largest market of all, China. Between 2010 and 2016, total hospitals in China increased by 7,666 to total 28,584. In addition, revenue in Chinese hospitals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtechintelligence.com\/feature_article\/expanding-hospital-markets-in-asia-provides-opportunities-for-medtech-manufacturers-the-hospital-market-in-china-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"increased by 163% (opens in a new tab)\">increased by 163%<\/a> between 2010 and 2016 to a total of $430 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#2) Electronic Medical Records<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/ghi-analysis\/electronic-medical-records-growing-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Electronic medical records (opens in a new tab)\">Electronic medical records<\/a> are gradually gaining widespread adoption around the world, and the APAC market is certainly no exception to this rule. Overall, the electronic medical records market in the Asia Pacific region is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"forecast to grow (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/press-release\/183-billion-hospital-emr-systems-market-2018---global-forecast-to-2023-2018-11-21\" target=\"_blank\">forecast to grow<\/a> at a rate of 8.8% between 2018 and 2023 (from $12 billion to $18.3 billion). Specifically, the Asia Pacific region is projected to outpace that global growth trend and be the fastest-growing region in the world in terms of electronic medical records.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#3) Telemedicine<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Telemedicine, which puts the latest technologies to work to provide medical advice and care to people in rural or remote areas, is on the rise all over the world. We\u2019ve already documented its growth in Latin America. Global Market Insights projects that the telemedicine market will grow 19.2% worldwide (or $38.3 billion) in Asia Pacific to reach a total value of $130.5 billion by 2025. In India and China, that projected growth rate for the telemedicine market is even higher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobihealthnews.com\/content\/report-global-telemedicine-market-will-hit-130b-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"22.4% and 23%, respectively (opens in a new tab)\">22.4% and 23%, respectively<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#4) Digital Imaging Systems<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of technology, China has two medical imaging solutions that are on the rise, as well. One is known as the China Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), and the second one is the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). Between them, they are expected to grow and expand at a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"14.2% rate between 2018 and 2023 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/chinese-vna--pacs-market-to-grow-at-a-cagr-of-14-2-during-2018-2023---rapidly-growing-field-of-telehealth-presents-lucrative-opportunities-300851741.html\" target=\"_blank\">14.2% rate between 2018 and 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>#5) Medical Tourism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another big area of medical growth in many regions of the world is medical tourism, or the idea of traveling to another area of the world to receive medical care that is too expensive or simply not available at home. Not surprisingly, the Asia Pacific region is a major market for medical tourism. Globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/ghi-analysis\/latin-americas-top-4-medical-tourism-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"medical tourism (opens in a new tab)\">medical tourism<\/a> is expected to grow from $53 billion in 2017 to $143 billion in 2025, or an annual growth rate of 12.9%. And the Asia Pacific region is expected to contribute to this total with 8.1% annual growth in medical tourism between 2017 and 2025. This is largely due to inexpensive treatments and less stringent rules about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2019\/05\/09\/1820849\/0\/en\/Medical-Tourism-Market-is-Expected-to-Grow-at-a-CAGR-of-12-9-through-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cosmetic procedures in Asia Pacific nations<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Explore More<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Contact us (opens in a new tab)\">Contact us<\/a><\/strong> if your company has specific needs in terms of market research and intelligence for the Asia Pacific medical devices, medical equipment, pharmaceutical and healthcare markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robust market sectors that companies should explore ASAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3639,3641,3644,3645,3647,3650,3651,3654,122,3656,3657,3659,3661,3663,3665,3667,3670,3672,3674,3675,3677],"class_list":{"0":"post-9663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ghi-analysis","7":"tag-apac-medical-device-market","8":"tag-asia-market-research-medical-devices","9":"tag-asia-pacific-healthcare-industry-outlook","10":"tag-asia-pacific-medical-device-market-research","11":"tag-asia-pacific-medical-tourism","12":"tag-asian-healthcare-market-grow-by-almost-200-billion-between-2016-and-2020","13":"tag-digital-imaging-systems-market-asia-pacific","14":"tag-electronic-medical-records-market-asia-pacific","15":"tag-global-health-intelligence-ghi","16":"tag-growth-asia-pacific-healthcare-market","17":"tag-hospital-growth-asia-pacific-healthcare-market","18":"tag-market-data-asia-pacific-healthcare","19":"tag-market-data-asia-pacific-medical-devices","20":"tag-market-data-asia-pacific-medical-equipment","21":"tag-market-intelligence-asia-pacific-medical-devices","22":"tag-market-research-asia-pacific-medical-device-market","23":"tag-market-size-of-the-medical-devices-market-in-the-asia-pacific-region","24":"tag-medical-device-market-asian-hospital","25":"tag-medical-tourism-market-asia-pacific","26":"tag-medtech-market-asia","27":"tag-telemedicine-market-asia-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29872,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions\/29872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}