At the beginning of the new year of 2024, the National Health Conference, the National Primary Health Conference, and the National Conference on Disease Control and Prevention. and other health related work meetings have been held one after another, respectively to summarize the work of all parties in 2023 and deploy key tasks in 2024. What's happening in the health surveillance industry in 2023? What policies are worth paying attention to? Let's take a closer look.
In the last issue, we have taken stock of "epidemic opening", "artificial intelligence", "extreme weather", and "international cooperation", and this issue will continue to take stock of hot words such as "pharmaceutical anti-corruption", "restructuring and listing", "informatization construction", and "standardized law enforcement", and review the health supervision industry in 2023.
"Pharmaceutical anti-corruption": carry out anti-corruption storm in the pharmaceutical field nationwide
On July 21, 2023, 10 departments including the National Health Commission jointly held a meeting to deploy a one-year centralized rectification of corruption in the pharmaceutical field across the country, and the nationwide anti-corruption storm in the pharmaceutical field officially kicked off. The action aims to rectify the unhealthy trends in the field of pharmaceutical purchase and sales and medical services, focusing on cracking down on outstanding corruption in the field of medicine, not only involving hospital presidents, secretaries and other senior managers, but also covering pharmaceutical enterprises, medical device manufacturers and other links, which can be called the whole field, the whole chain, the full coverage of the anti-corruption storm. In the same year, the National Health Commission promulgated the "Nine Guidelines for the Honest Practice of Medical Institution Staff" and issued the "Code of Professional Conduct for Medical Institution Staff (Trial)", etc., to support the supervision of the medical service field from the policy perspective.
Summary: In the context of high-pressure anti-corruption, medical institutions have begun to self-examine and self-correct, actively rectify, strengthen internal management, and improve the transparency and credibility of medical services. The regulatory authorities have also strengthened the supervision and inspection of medical institutions, and many regions have successively introduced relevant credit supervision policies, using the supervision model of "wisdom + credit" and "high pressure + zero tolerance" to severely crack down on various medical corruption.
Race to the top has something to say:
The practice of medical institutions and medical personnel in accordance with the law is the due meaning of the high-quality development of hospitals at all levels, the guarantee of continuous improvement of medical service capacity and medical quality, the inevitable requirement for the operation mode to shift from extensive management to fine management, and the minimum requirement of social and legal medical needs. Strive for the self-inspection system of medical institutions in accordance with the law, solve the problem of low efficiency of self-examination in medical and health institutions according to law by means of information technology, consolidate the main responsibility of medical institutions, change the passive self-inspection method of medical institutions to active self-examination of institutions, promote the self-discipline practice of medical institutions, and establish a good atmosphere in the industry.
"Restructuring and listing": local centers for disease control and prevention have re-established and listed to pilot the disease control supervisor system
On July 18, 2023, the National Health Commission issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of the Health Supervision System", proposing that by 2035, the organization will be complete and the powers and responsibilities will be unified.
1. A health supervision system that operates efficiently and is guaranteed by the rule of law.
On December 25, 2023, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued guidance on promoting the high-quality development of disease prevention and control, and disease control institutions at all levels have a clear direction and goal of "reform", such as the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and provincial centers for disease control and prevention to add the brand of the Academy of Preventive Medicine, and the municipal and county-level centers for disease control and prevention to integrate with health supervision institutions at the same level, and explore the establishment of a disease control and health supervisor system for medical and health institutions.
Summary: The promulgation of the two opinions means that for a long time to come, China's disease control and health undertakings will be the "top priority", more resources will be tilted to this side, and social participation will be higher. In this context, local municipal and county-level centers for disease control and prevention and health supervision agencies have actively responded to the policy call, explored the direction of cooperation, strengthened scientific and technological support, improved informatization construction, and better played their respective supervisory functions.
Race to the top has something to say:
The reform of disease control and control has promoted the informatization of the health industry, and under the guidance of the Internet people's livelihood service concept of "taking more of the Internet and less of the road", the people have enjoyed the new smart life brought by informatization. To strengthen the construction of disease control and health supervision systems, it is not only necessary to build a professional and standardized health supervision and law enforcement team and consolidate and establish a sense of serving the people, but also to pay attention to the application of new technologies and improve the level of informatization of health law enforcement. The "Smart Health Supervision" project promotes intelligent online supervision, real-time monitoring, and big data analysis and early warning with artificial intelligence as the main technology to assist regulatory law enforcement, and improve the regulatory efficiency of public health and medical and health services.
"Informatization construction": special funds for health supervision informatization construction are issued
In May this year, the official website of the Ministry of Finance clarified the subsidy budget for the improvement of medical service and security capacity of each province (city) in 2023 in a number of important documents, totaling about 2247.3 billion yuan. In September, the Ministry of Finance issued the "Notice on Issuing the 2023 Budget for Subsidy Funds for the Improvement of Medical Service and Security Capacity (Capacity Building of Medical and Health Institutions and Cultivation of Health Talents)", which issued about 348.9 billion yuan, the capital budget also set up a special fund for the construction of health supervision informatization, through the way of financial support to encourage enterprises, institutions and individuals to participate in the construction of health supervision informatization, to promote the innovation and application of information technology.
Summary: With the rapid development of social and economic development, the public's increasing concern about health issues, and the increasing requirements for health supervision and law enforcement, health supervision agencies need to strengthen their law enforcement and supervision capabilities in the new context to effectively respond to various public health events. This year, with the financial support of the state, the pace of information construction of grass-roots health supervision institutions has gradually accelerated, and all localities have actively introduced advanced scientific and technological means and first-class monitoring equipment, and made full use of information technology to improve the supervision ability and work efficiency of health supervision and law enforcement, and improve the scientificity and accuracy of health supervision and law enforcement.
Race to the top has something to say:
The informatization construction of health supervision institutions is inseparable from the support of information technology, and the "smart health supervision" platform will incorporate air quality, water quality, occupational health, medical waste disposal, radiation health and other health law enforcement matters into comprehensive supervision, realizing the full coverage of the whole system, all business, all processes and all elements in the field of health and health, and is a smart helper for health supervision. At the same time, in order to help law enforcement officers achieve real mobile office and mobile law enforcement, Strive for Upstream Technology has developed a highly digital and information-based product called "Mobile On-site Law Enforcement Package", which has changed the traditional law enforcement methods of health and greatly improved the work efficiency of law enforcement officers.
"Standardize law enforcement": improve the supervision system and balance the development of health supervision in various places
On December 6, 2023, in order to standardize medical supervision and law enforcement, maintain medical order, and protect the health rights and interests of the people, the National Health Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention jointly formulated and issued the "Medical Supervision and Law Enforcement Work Specifications (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Specifications").
In terms of specific content, the "Medical Supervision and Law Enforcement Work Specifications (Trial)" is based on the actual requirements of medical supervision and law enforcement, and also absorbs effective practices and experiences in practice. For example, the "Norms" will apply some new supervision concepts and tools that have emerged in recent years to medical supervision and law enforcement, such as exploring the use of off-site technical means such as AI behavior recognition and monitoring, strengthening credit supervision, and implementing the "comprehensive inspection" system.
Summary: The promulgation of the "Specification" fills the gap in the field of health supervision and law enforcement, and clearly defines the scope and content of medical supervision and law enforcement, which is conducive to strengthening the guidance of local medical supervision and law enforcement and promoting the improvement of the level of primary medical supervision and law enforcement. Front-line health supervision and law enforcement personnel shall take the initiative to learn, master the content, requirements, and methods of medical supervision and law enforcement, improve the level of law enforcement, and improve the efficiency of law enforcement.
Race to the top has something to say:
Health administrative law enforcement involves many professional lines, and grassroots health law enforcement personnel directly face a large number of supervision objects, covering occupational health, medical and health care, school health, public health, etc., and the case is complex, which has caused many difficulties and challenges for law enforcement. The mobile law enforcement package developed by the upstream is the smart law enforcement assistant of health law enforcement personnel, law enforcement officers carry out on-site inspections with mobile on-site law enforcement packages, and only need to check the violation clauses and automatically generate documents through the on-site inspection list of the law enforcement terminal camera and microphone on the spot, and then use a portable Bluetooth printer to print law enforcement documents on the spot, and quickly complete the on-site law enforcement work after being signed by the parties. At the same time, it closely follows the changes in laws, regulations and related policies, and updates and revises the corresponding policies, regulations and document templates in the law enforcement system in a timely manner, so as to help the grassroots health departments quickly grasp the policy changes and optimize law enforcement behaviors.
Review Summary:
In 2023, the eight hot words of the health supervision industry, including "epidemic opening", "pharmaceutical anti-corruption", "restructuring and listing", "informatization construction", "standardized law enforcement", "artificial intelligence", "extreme weather" and "international cooperation", have all been inventoried. Looking back on the past, China's health cause has made great progress, and the health supervision work has a relatively complete system and process; Looking forward to the future, there is still a long way to go in the construction of "Healthy China", and there is still a long way to go to comprehensively improve the quality of social life.
Under the new situation, health supervision work is facing new challenges, and it is necessary to constantly study and explore new models, constantly sum up experience, discover existing problems, and solve problems in a timely manner. Health construction information construction is the new goal of health supervision in the new era, but also the development requirements of innovative supervision mode under the wave of science and technology, striving for upstream science and technology will continue to combine the needs of health supervision, for grassroots supervision and law enforcement personnel to provide more advanced and high-quality "smart health supervision" products, improve regulatory efficiency, and better protect the life and health of the people.