Established in 2013, Tianjin Aooman Technology Co., Ltd. is China’s first-ever state-level high-tech enterprise specialized in the research and development of intelligent rehab series products. Aooman has proposed and realized the application of multi-media technology in the field of health for the first time in China, successfully developed the first set of smart rehab training system in the field, effectively boosted the combination of health industry and cultural industry and thus won praise and recognition from several authoritative institutions and users such as China Rehabilitation Research Center.
Established in 1993, Ottobock (China) Industry Co., Ltd. is a solely-funded company of Germany Ottobock Health and Rehab Group, which mainly offers products include prosthesis, orthotics, neural implants and rehab products and provides customers with professional technical consulting and complete before-sale and after-sale services. To date, Ottobock has opened branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu, intending to provide most convenient and efficient services to its customers.
Continuous emergence of intelligent technologies keeps catalyzing a new round of scientific and technological as well as industrial revolution centering on intelligence. Recent years have seen intelligent assistive devices becoming the vital area of competition with the vigorous growth of global intelligent assistive device technology facilitating the fusion of advanced technological innovations in the field of information, internet, micro-electronics and precision machining etc. and intelligent assistive device industry.
It is reported that the morbidity of congenital hearing impairment in Chinese newborns is 1‰ to 3‰. As they grow older, chances of getting permanent hearing impairment are even larger with the incidence rate growing up to 2.7 ‰ before five years old and to 3.5 ‰ in adolescence. The morbidity in the aged is as high as 73.58%. At present, there are 137,000 children from 0 to 6 years old suffering from hearing impairment and every year sees more than 30,000 new cases added to the group. Rehabilitation for deaf children has been included to the national rescue work plan. As revealed by statistics of the WHO, over 60% of children hearing impairment can be avoided. Thus, diagnosis, intervention, and rehabilitation at an early stage appear fairly important.
It’s been five years since med-tech company Ottobock provided technical support for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London with a team of 80 technicians. Over 22 days, the team completed 2,062 repairs for athletes from 123 countries. Ottobock is now set to return to London as the official technical support partner for the World Para Athletics Championships, the eight time the company has done so.
Sonova, the biggest hearing aid maker globally by revenue, said that it is aiming to drive up sales in China, whose population suffers the world's highest levels of hearing loss, with the help of its newly-opened international training institute in Jiangsu province.
