Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and 21 other relevant departments released the Outline of Action for Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Health Industry (2019-2022), which has attracted widespread attention. The Outline will implement 10 major projects centered on key areas and key links.
The 10 major projects include:
(i) quality medical and healthcare resources expansion project;
(ii) "Internet + healthcare" enhancement project;
(iii) Chinese medicine health service quality improvement project;
(iv) health service cross-border integration project;
(v) health industry science and technology innovation project;
(vi) health insurance development and deepening of the project;
(vii) health industry agglomeration and development project;
(viii) health industry talent enhancement project;
(ix) optimization of the business environment of the health industry project;
(x) comprehensive supervision of the health industry project.
These projects include the following.
Of these, the "Internet + Healthcare" enhancement project ranks second.
In this regard, Henry Huang, chairman and founder of Good Medical Friend Medical Group, said, "The outline puts 'Internet+Medical Health' in a very important position, which shows the state's support for the telemedicine industry. This undoubtedly gives us a 'piece of mind'. Good Medical Friends will be more determined to develop the international telemedicine business in the future and do our part for 'Healthy China 2030'!"
Internet+Medicine and Healthcare
The "'Internet+Medicine and Healthcare' Enhancement Project" explicitly points out that it is necessary to accelerate the development of "Internet+Medicine". medical". It supports the independent establishment of Internet hospitals based on physical medical institutions, standardizes Internet diagnostic and treatment activities, improves the accessibility of high-quality medical services, actively develops Internet health consultation and health management services, and promotes the integration of online and offline services. Taking high-level hospitals as the core, accelerating the establishment of telemedicine networks and platforms, improving the coverage of remote consultation, remote imaging, and remote pathology for grassroots, remote and underdeveloped areas, and perfecting the relevant payment mechanisms.
Henry Huang pointed out that the scarcity and uneven distribution of high-quality medical resources is the main crux of the problem of "difficult to see a doctor" for the Chinese people, especially at the grassroots level. "There is a huge unmet demand at the grassroots level and in remote areas, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and major diseases such as tumors." He knows this well from his visits to hospitals around the country. Many patients are limited to the local medical level, have no choice but to turn to seek medical treatment, to the provincial capitals and large hospitals in the north to find specialists. Large hospitals are always in a "wartime state", big experts "one hard to find", poor experience, long waiting time, misdiagnosis and misdiagnosis, diagnosis and treatment of irregularities and so on, which cost the patient a lot of time, energy and money.
"'Internet+Medicine' enables quality cancer medical resources to transcend time and space constraints and achieve reasonable and efficient allocation. It can 'send charcoal in snow' for patients in grassroots, remote and underdeveloped areas, and 'add flowers to icing on the cake' for medical resources in big cities." He said that with the help of "Internet+Medicine", H&QM has introduced tens of thousands of U.S. experts, many of whom are the top 1% of the top experts in various specialties in the U.S., so that international advanced diagnosis and treatment programs and standardized diagnosis and treatment concepts have sunk to the grassroots level, and provided effective supplementation of the limited quality medical resources in China. The company has also provided an effective supplement to the limited high-quality medical resources in China.
Henry Huang said that the company has built the first China-US telemedicine consortium with more than 300 large and medium-sized medical institutions across the country, providing one-stop cross-border medical closed-loop services for domestic patients with online teleconsultation and offline treatment and follow-up. Through China-US telemedicine consultation, patients can "face to face" with the top experts of the United States at their doorsteps under the gatekeeping of experts from local tertiary hospitals, and obtain multidisciplinary treatment plans for cash; it also builds an all-round exchange and collaboration platform for Chinese and American medical institutions and doctors, and the two sides can learn from each other in the exchanges and discussions, and make progress together***. and make progress together. At the same time, to help enhance the grassroots health care personnel to improve the level of professionalism, in line with the national hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, to help the implementation of the "Healthy China" strategy.
"Good Medical Friends is willing to hold an open attitude, and domestic and foreign partners together, *** together for the 'Internet + medical health' enhancement project." Henry Huang said.
The Outline also proposes to actively develop "Internet + drug circulation". The establishment of Internet diagnosis and treatment prescription information and drug retail consumption information interconnection, real-time **** enjoyment of the channel, support for online prescription drugs third-party distribution and so on. This will greatly alleviate the problem of accessibility of medicines to the grassroots people and further promote the development of "Internet + Healthcare".
Health insurance + health services
The Outline also points out that the promotion of health insurance and health services integration. It supports health insurance companies to carry out managed care pilots, establishes health management organizations covering health insurance, health management, medical services, long-term care and other service chains, promotes changes in the service model, facilitates the implementation of individual health responsibilities, improves the efficiency of the use of insurance funds, and improves the ability to control and restrain medical costs. To build a docking platform between high-level public hospitals and their specialized medical parts and health insurance companies, and to promote the cooperation between medical treatment and insurance designation.
In this regard, Henry Huang said that the relevant content of the Outline reflects the main trend of health insurance development in line with the current international trend, but also in line with the direction of "value-based health care". "Taking the health insurance company we hold in the United States as an example, it mainly provides Medicare Advantage (MA) plan services for the elderly in the United States, that is, it adopts the model of combining health insurance and health services, which is typical of managed care." He said that through medical big data, artificial intelligence, wearable devices and other health insurance companies to provide technical empowerment for patients to develop personalized health management programs. Timely intervention by doctors within the insurer's healthcare network for early prevention and intervention can further improve service quality and overall patient health, reduce the risk of chronic disease complications, and effectively control medical costs.
Domestically, Good Doctor has also cooperated with Taiping Life to explore and launch an all-round, proactive medical service and health management solution for insurance customers, which is "online + offline, within + outside China". Currently, the product has served millions of users.