From January 11 to 12, 2024, the National Health Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting summarized the work in 2023, arranged and deployed the key work in 2024, and pointed out that 2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a key year for the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and an important year for the reform and innovation of the health industry, strengthening the foundation and improving the overall improvement. The national health system has given more prominence to the connotative development of medical and health institutions, the systematic continuity of health services, better coordinated development and safety, and continuously enhanced the people's sense of health.
Continuity, high quality, strong grassroots, and heavy supervision will remain the core of national health work in 2024.
In 2024, the national health work will focus on the following aspects:
The construction of medical consortium is an important starting point for hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. The medical alliance is conducive to adjusting and optimizing the structural layout of medical resources, promoting the downward shift of the focus of medical and health work and the sinking of resources, improving the ability of grassroots services, and facilitating the integration of medical resources.
At the end of 2023, 10 departments including the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Close-knit County-level Medical and Health Community", which means that the construction of a close-knit county-level medical community has been fully rolled out in China. From the initial exploration and pilot, to today's comprehensive promotion, the medical community has left a long footprint in the journey of the new era, and the medical alliance has gradually changed from horizontal, regional and loose to vertical, professional and close.
The meeting focused on "deepening the construction of medical alliances (communities) with personnel sinking as the core", which means that the construction of medical alliances will be accelerated in 2024, and doctors will be encouraged to practice in more places and high-quality doctors will be encouraged to sink to the grassroots level as an important starting point, which is expected to further promote the integration of high-quality medical resources, better implement hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, and improve the accessibility and medical experience of national medical services.
The key to promoting the extension of high-quality medical resources to cities and counties, improving the ability of disease prevention and treatment at the grassroots level, and developing primary medical services is to improve the service capacity of clinicians and "meet" the needs of grassroots patients. Through the cooperation of Cooper Intelligent Robot and Ultrasound Expert Group, it will help the grassroots to solve many problems such as the shortage of ultrasound physician resources and low professional level, the consultation of incurable diseases, and the improvement of the professionalism and diagnosis and treatment ability of grassroots ultrasound talents, and promote the grassroots to carry out ultrasound scanning, diagnosis, teaching, guidance, consultation, quality control, standard and specification construction, etc., gradually improve the level and efficiency of ultrasound diagnosis and treatment services in the whole region, and continue to enhance the sense of health of grassroots residents.
"Three transformations and three improvements", namely: the development mode has shifted from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement to improve quality; The operation mode has shifted from extensive management to refined management to improve efficiency; The allocation of resources has shifted from focusing on material elements to paying more attention to the technical elements of talents and improving treatment.
Making full use of new technologies, new models and new means will effectively promote high-quality innovation in public hospitals. The Notice on Printing and Distributing Evaluation Indicators for the High-quality Development of Public Hospitals (Trial) issued in July 2022 directly regards "the effectiveness of smart hospital construction" as a key indicator in the dimension of "innovation and efficiency". The construction and development of smart hospitals will effectively promote hospitals to achieve the goal of improving quality and efficiency.
As the core construction plan of hospital intelligent integration, Cooper smart pharmacy takes the information system as the link, the pharmacy robot as the product starting point, and relies on the software and hardware equipment covering the outpatient and emergency pharmacy, fever outpatient pharmacy, inpatient pharmacy, ward, static distribution center and other medication units, so as to realize the full-cycle automation, intelligence, traceability and integrated management of drug consumables from storage, allocation, review, distribution to use, and meet the various application scenarios of the drug unit. While strengthening the pharmaceutical management of medical institutions, it has added a new service connotation to hospital pharmacies.
Improving the medical level at the county level has become one of the important measures to deepen the reform of the medical system in China. The "Thousand Counties Project" requires improving the comprehensive capacity of county hospitals, promoting the sinking of provincial and municipal medical resources, the integration and sharing of county medical resources, building a bridge between urban and rural medical services, and giving full play to the role of county hospitals as "gatekeepers" and "leaders". The proposal of the "Thousand Counties Project" has become another major opportunity for county hospitals to promote their own digital transformation and development.
Based on the specific scenarios of the hospital, we will create a one-stop smart hospital-wide drug circulation scenario that integrates smart hospital-wide logistics, smart outpatient pharmacy, smart inpatient pharmacy, smart static distribution center, smart high-value consumables management, and smart ward drug management, and create a one-stop warehouse replenishment innovation model of "storage, distribution, transportation, distribution, and management", which can fully meet the needs of the medical industry, especially county-level hospitals, for digital transformation and the construction of smart hospitals, and help quickly improve the medical level of the county.
Strengthen the capacity building of primary medical institutions, improve the capacity standards of township health centers and community health service centers, and improve medical service capabilities and management capabilities by strengthening the setting of departments and improving equipment allocation.
At the same time, we will promote medical talents to sink to the grassroots, remote areas, areas with scarce medical resources and other medical institutions in need. On the one hand, experts do not need to go to the grassroots level, inspection and diagnosis "to" the grassroots level, and on the other hand, through "synchronous" clinical teaching and ultrasound operation method training, to cultivate grassroots talents and improve their level.