The Health Planning Commission is now focusing on promoting the use of domestic medical equipment in tertiary hospitals.What kind of changes will the implementation of this policy bring to the device industry?
The National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly held a meeting to promote the development and application of domestic medical equipment.
Li Bin, director of the National Health Planning Commission, said it would focus on promoting the application of domestic medical equipment in tertiary hospitals. We should speed up the development of domestic medical equipment, promote the popularization and application, give full play to the comparative advantages of domestic enterprises, reduce medical costs, effectively curb the unreasonable growth of medical expenses, and effectively reduce the burden on patients.Li Bin, director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, pointed out that promoting the development and application of domestic medical equipment is an urgent requirement for deepening the reform of the medical and health system and reducing medical costs. We should speed up the development of domestic medical equipment, promote the popularization and application, give full play to the comparative advantages of domestic enterprises, reduce medical costs, effectively curb the unreasonable growth of medical expenses, and effectively reduce the burden on patients.Li Bin said that the National Health and Family Planning Commission has always taken the promotion and application of domestic medical equipment and the reduction of medical costs as a key task to grasp the reality. The health and family planning department works closely with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to speed up the cracking of obstacles restricting the development and application of domestic medical equipment and create a good social and policy environment.Li Bin said that it is necessary to vigorously advocate the use of domestic medical equipment in health and family planning institutions, and focus on promoting the application of domestic medical equipment in tertiary hospitals. It is necessary to give full play to the market competition mechanism to promote the overall improvement of the level of domestic medical equipment and continuously improve its performance.Miao Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that my country's medical equipment industry has continued to develop rapidly in recent years, and the scale of the industry has continued to expand. It has initially formed an industrial system with complete professional categories, complete industrial chains, and continuous optimization of product structure. By the end of 2013, the total sales revenue of enterprises above designated size reached 328.7 billion yuan, an annual increase of 27% since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan.Miao Wei said that regular medical equipment with a wide range of clinical applications and a large amount of use has been localized, and breakthroughs have been made in the R & D and production of some high-end medical equipment.Miao Wei said that in order to promote the development of the domestic medical equipment industry, an incentive mechanism for the active use of domestic medical equipment will be established.Miao Wei revealed that for large-scale equipment independently developed in my country, not only medical equipment, it is exploring the establishment of a liability insurance system to support the localization of the first set of major equipment.Miao Wei said that the CIRC will set up a type of insurance, and the participating enterprises will only need to bear a small part of the burden, while the central finance will bear the vast majority, which is expected to be more than 2/3, so as to promote the promotion and application of the first set and the first batch of domestic large-scale equipment.In May of this year, the National Health and Family Planning Commission issued a notice entrusting the China Medical Equipment Association to start the selection of the first batch of outstanding domestic medical equipment products. The selection scope includes three categories of equipment, equipment, and consumables. Zhu Qingsheng, chairman of the China Medical Equipment Association, introduced the list of the first batch of excellent domestic equipment to be released in the near future. The second half of the year will also carry out the second batch of excellent domestic equipment selection.
