Comparative Analysis of China's Online Procurement Policy of Medical Consumables
Objective:The paper attempts to provide references and suggestions for establishing unified online procurement rules and improving local policies for the procurement of medical consumables.Methods:We searched for relevant policies of the online procurement of medical consumables issued by official websites of healthcare security administrations,centralized drug procurement platforms,and health commissions in various provinces of China,and summarized them using literature analysis and comparative analysis methods.Results:There are differences among provinces in the scope,pricing mechanisms,categorization,dynamic management,and price regulation of online procurement of medical consumables.Conclusion:It is suggested to standardize the access method to form a unified online procurement catalog,explore the establishment of a unified online pricing mechanism,clarify the connotation and rules of registered procurement,standardize the management of medical consumables withdrawal from the network,carry out price governance for online medical consumables,utilize the price management function of big data on the centralized drug procurement platform,conduct price monitoring and strengthen the response to abnormal prices.
online procurement of medical consumablesonline price of medical consumablescentralized drug procurement platformprice regulation