Graded diagnosis and treatment promotes the expansion of the primary medical imaging market (Rencheng Medical)

Along with the social and economic transformation processes such as aging and urbanization, residents' basic health needs have grown rapidly and shown diverse characteristics, posing challenges to the establishment and improvement of the basic medical and health service system. Against this background, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further proposed the requirement of rationally allocating medical resources and building a tiered diagnosis and treatment service system, which pointed out the direction for the reform of the medical and health service system and the basic medical security system. This is an important content of deepening medical reform in the new era, focusing on achieving universal access to basic medical and health services. The establishment of the tiered diagnosis and treatment system aims to reverse the current unreasonable allocation of medical resources, solve the problem of unbalanced resource allocation, build a coordinated urban-rural medical and health service network, rely on a large number of hospitals and primary-level medical and health institutions, and explore a medical and health service system structure that rationally allocates resources, effectively activates existing resources, and improves the efficiency of resource allocation and use.

The tiered diagnosis and treatment policy opens up the blue ocean of the primary-level market and increases the demand-side growth of imaging equipment. Tiered diagnosis and treatment is one of the important directions of medical reform, aiming to rationally guide and redistribute medical resources, promote the sinking of medical resources, and thus improve the diagnostic and treatment capabilities of primary-level medical institutions. The tiered diagnosis and treatment policy includes four aspects: primary-level first visit, two-way referral, treatment of acute and chronic diseases separately, and vertical and horizontal linkage. Its essence is to conduct tiered diagnosis and treatment according to the severity and urgency of diseases and the difficulty of treatment. Medical institutions of different levels undertake the treatment of patients with different diseases and different conditions, realizing primary-level first visit and two-way referral. The tiered diagnosis and treatment policy has been implemented since 2009, and the reform is continuously deepening. According to the national goals, by 2020, the tiered diagnosis and treatment model will gradually take shape. The primary-level medical market will benefit from the tiered diagnosis and treatment policy, and its diagnostic and treatment technologies and patient capacity will be improved. As necessary hardware for diagnosis and treatment, the demand for medical imaging equipment will also increase simultaneously.

Main Content of Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment

There are numerous primary-level medical institutions in China, and there is great room for increasing the penetration rate of imaging equipment. At present, primary-level medical institutions account for a large proportion of medical institutions in China. According to the statistics of the Health Commission's bulletin, in 2017, the total number of medical and health institutions nationwide reached 987,000, including 31,000 hospitals (tertiary level: 2,340, tertiary Grade A: 1,360, secondary level: 8,422, primary level: 10,050), 933,000 primary-level medical and health institutions, and 20,000 professional public health institutions. Among primary-level medical and health institutions, there are 35,000 Community Health Service Centers (Stations) and 37,000 township hospitals. With the promotion of the tiered diagnosis and treatment policy, in 2017, the number of diagnoses and treatments in primary-level medical and health institutions reached 44.3 billion person-times, among which outpatient visits in township hospitals and Community Health Service Centers (Stations) accounted for 23.0% of the total outpatient visits, and 44.5 million person-times were hospitalized in primary-level medical and health institutions. However, at present, the penetration rate of imaging equipment in the primary-level medical market is relatively low. In the future, with the advancement of policies, it is expected to open up the primary-level market.
Tiered diagnosis and treatment will bring incremental growth to some medical imaging equipment markets. Taking color ultrasound as an example, the incremental growth in the primary-level market is expected to reach 30,000 units, and the total amount may exceed 70 billion yuan.

China's medical environment is constantly improving, in line with national conditions and serving the people. With more and more advanced medical equipment, among which medical imaging workstations have facilitated hospitals, doctors, and patients in the field of imaging. Guangzhou Rencheng Medical has stood out with more than ten years of experience in medical equipment maintenance, and through cooperation with hospitals, it has clearly understood various needs from doctors. The developed imaging workstation can effectively serve hospitals, doctors, and patients, integrating software system functional modules such as patient registration, image acquisition, diagnostic editing, report printing, image post-processing, case query, and statistical analysis. It can quickly obtain examination information, realize image and video visualization, enhance communication with doctors, share examination result data, and facilitate the review of files during referral. Now Rencheng imaging workstation is sincerely recruiting national agents and distributors, and provides 24-hour After-sale Service.

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