Function of the national big data platform for medical and healthcare management in medical and healthcare system reform

Abstract

The reform of medical and healthcare system is the inevitable process for the medical and healthcare developing in China. The main contents of the reform include establishing a scientific and reasonable system of medical treatment and classification, a scientific and effective modern hospital management system, a universal medical insurance system with efficient operation, a standardized and orderly drugs and medical equipment supply, and a strict and standardized comprehensive supervision system. The national big data platform for medical and healthcare management can play an important role in the reform of medical and healthcare system in China. First, it can help to improve the treatment effect of the disease, improve the prognosis, reduce the morbidity and mortality rate, and improve the health level. Second, it can effectively control the risk of medical insurance funds, and reduce the fund operational risk. Third, it can improve the efficiency of healthcare services and medical service resource utilization, so as to reduce medical costs. Fourth, it can help to build the link between residents and family doctors and hospitals, and to promote the medical consortium and hierarchical medical system through electronic signatures, online booking, telemedicine, real-time health monitoring, and two-way referral. Fifth, it can help to establish a medicine and medical equipment circulation system with the characteristics of source-traceable, full controllable, risk-preventable, responsibility-assessable, performance-assessable, and open-and-transparent. Finally, it can effectively improve the quality evaluation and regulatory level of the medical system in China. The existing problems in medical reform in China were introduced, and the relationship and the significance of the national big data platform for medical and healthcare management to medical and healthcare system reform were analyzed. Key words: Healthcare big data; Medical and healthcare system reform; Hierarchical medical system; Medical insurance supervision; Medical institution evaluation; Medicine and medical equipment supervision