The National Health and Health Commission requires that information such as consumables prices, equipment procurement and other information be fully disclosed

The lack of openness and transparency of information is often the most likely to breed corruption and various problems
.
In the past, in the procurement of medical equipment and consumables, there were occasional non-compliant transactions, which violated the principle of fair market competition

Executed from 1st February

On January 4, the National Health and Health Commission issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the Measures for the Administration of Information Disclosure in Medical and Health Institutions" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which clarified the scope, methods, responsibilities and supervision of information disclosure in medical and health institutions
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The "Measures" stipulate that medical and health institutions should take the initiative to disclose the following information according to their own characteristics and their actual service conditions:

1.
Basic profile of the institution and public service functions;

2.
The distribution of institutional departments, personnel identification, and identification guidance;

3.
The service content of the institution, key disciplines and medical technology access, service procedures and instructions, etc.
;

4.
Information on service procedures related to public health and disease emergency response;

5.
Service information such as medical insurance, price, and charges;

6.
Information related to health science publicity and education;

7.
Bidding and procurement information;

8.
The construction of a clean and honest government;

9.
Ways of consultation and complaints;

10.
Contents that should be actively disclosed as stipulated by other laws, regulations and rules
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Medical and health institutions shall, according to the actual situation, disclose the information voluntarily disclosed in one or more of the following ways:

1.
Public columns, bulletin boards, electronic display screens and touch screens in office and service places;

2.
Information desk, service desk;

3.
Personnel position identification;

4.
Government portals at all levels or portals of the institution;

5.
Internet communication platform, official account, mobile client terminal;

6.
Service manual, convenience card, information notice;

7.
Consulting service telephone;

8.
Other methods that are convenient for the public to know
.

The "Measures" also stipulate that if the content of voluntary disclosure of information changes, the medical and health institution shall make adjustments within 20 working days from the date of the formation or change of the information
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Where laws, regulations and rules have other provisions on the renewal period, such provisions shall prevail

The "Measures" are applicable to medical and health institutions, including primary medical and health institutions, hospitals and professional public health institutions, and will be implemented on February 1, 2022
.

Consumables price one-click query?

Recently, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pharmaceutical Joint Purchasing Platform announced the selection results of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei "3+N" alliance intraocular lens medical consumables with volume linkage procurement.
The registered person and the selected price are all made public
.

At present, the procurement of medical consumables by volume is rapidly advancing across the country, and the exploration of volume procurement of test reagents and medical equipment has also made preliminary progress
.
However, judging from the recent centralized procurement of alliances or individual organizations in various places, it is not a normal operation to fully announce the winning price to the whole society

In terms of medical service institutions, according to the "Administrative Measures for Information Disclosure of Medical and Health Institutions", service information such as medical insurance, prices, and charges are information that medical and health institutions need to actively disclose
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And in what form and way to make it public, it has also become a part of the industry that is more concerned

In the future, will the public be able to use the Internet information platform to query the price information of all consumables and medicines with one click?

According to the "Administrative Measures for Information Disclosure of Medical and Health Service Units (Trial)" issued by the former Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, the name, quantity, unit price, amount and medical treatment of drugs, blood and its products, medical consumables used by patients in medical services and medical services received The total cost, etc.
, will be informed to the patient in the form of providing an inquiry service or providing a list of expenses
.

In the Catalogue of Information Disclosure of Nine Types of Medical and Health Institutions including Hospitals and Family Planning Technical Service Institutions issued by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission in 2015, hospital information disclosure is divided into information disclosed to the public and information disclosed to patients
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Among them, the specifications, models, manufacturers and prices of major medical consumables are information disclosed to patients, which can be disclosed on bulletin boards, electronic screens, and hospital websites

On January 4, the National Health and Medical Commission issued the "Policy Interpretation of Information Disclosure Management Measures for Medical and Health Institutions"
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Among them, it is pointed out that the "Catalogue of Information Disclosure of 9 Types of Medical and Health Institutions including Hospitals and Family Planning Technical Service Institutions" puts forward requirements for the information disclosure content of medical and health institutions in the form of a catalogue

In addition, according to the "Administrative Measures for Information Disclosure of Medical and Health Institutions", medical and health institutions can, in combination with existing conditions, take on-site consultation, website communication platform, hotline, mobile client and other convenient communication channels to provide timely humanized consultation services to meet the needs of public information needs
.

It is understood that the above public methods are the public methods commonly used by medical and health institutions at present
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In order to adhere to the principle of being pragmatic and effective, and adapting measures to local conditions, and to prevent "one size fits all", medical and health institutions can refer to and select them according to the actual situation

Equipment procurement dilemma will be improved

According to the "Administrative Measures for Information Disclosure of Medical and Health Institutions", bidding and procurement information is also included in the list of information that hospitals and other medical and health institutions need to actively disclose
.

You know, the procurement of medical equipment has always been the hardest hit by medical corruption
.

A few days ago, Li Yuanfeng, the former secretary of the party committee and president of the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, was sentenced in Zigong for the crime of bribery and corruption
.
It is understood that Li Yuanfeng took advantage of the convenience and influence of his position to accept bribes in the procurement of medical equipment and drugs, equivalent to a total of more than 21.

In November last year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued an article titled "The Chief of the Hospital Equipment Section Lost in Greed", which directly pointed out the medical corruption and problems existing in the hospital equipment section chief in the procurement of hospital medicines, health consumables, and medical equipment
.

In June last year, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued a document revealing that Gu Yunqi, the former president of Aba Prefecture People’s Hospital, sought illegitimate benefits and accepted huge amounts of property for others in the procurement of medical drugs, consumables and equipment during his tenure as vice president and president of Aba Prefecture People’s Hospital.
, the amount of violations of discipline and law is as high as more than 26 million yuan
.

In the past, the opacity and asymmetry of hospital recruitment information provided room for medical corruption to grow
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In addition, the medical industry is highly professional, and the transmission method of relevant illegal benefits is relatively concealed
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Under the double attack of open and transparent information and strong supervision measures, the corruption of hospital recruitment will be further solved
.

In addition, the disclosure of bidding information, especially the selection price of equipment, will help the promotion of bidding and purchasing in various places to centralized purchasing, and the price difference of equipment purchasing in various places may be further narrowed
.
Cyberlane will continue to pay attention to the scope and channels of recruitment information disclosure
.