'Sunshine + two vote system' | supplies supply chain transparency without delay
Pharmaceutical Network December 7 News Food and Drug Administration of Anhui Province and other five departments recently jointly issued the "Notice on the issuance of two-vote system (two-vote system) procurement advice for medical consumables in public hospitals in Anhui Province" (Announcement) from December 2017 On the 1st, the province's second-class public medical institutions to implement medical supplies procurement 'two votes system', and the production and sale of substandard medical supplies and other criminal acts and medical consumables in the purchase and sale of monopolistic behavior and unfair competition behavior The system of regulating the procurement and distribution of pharmaceuticals, such as "two-vote system," "price negotiation," "joint sunshine procurement," "increasing anti-corruption efforts," accelerated the purchase and sale of medical consumables supply chains.
Information flow specification upgrade
Following the path of "high-value supplies, general consumables and testing reagents", the core goal of online collection is to streamline the logistics, information flow and capital flow so as to improve the transparency of the transaction process, save the purchasing cost of medical institutions and reduce the consumption of reagent The market price.
Guangdong Province drug Yue Feng, deputy general manager of the Exchange Center recently pointed out at the annual meeting of the Guangdong Provincial Exchanges and Clearing Houses that the medical consumables have extremely strong uniqueness, including the inconsistency between the declaration of product names, the common use of products in the industry and the actual qualification of products, and the partial products Must be based on the patient's situation, non-standard circulation, etc., many companies still out of their own considerations hospital Offline purchase. 'The price of dealers at all levels of opaque, but companies do not simply believe that the transaction data platform is not collected, as long as there is transaction behavior, price information can be collected across the province, there is no difference between online and offline, medical institutions must upload transaction data '
Some time ago the National Development and Reform Commission official micro-issued "since the party's eighteen medicine In mid-November, the National Development and Reform Commission promulgated the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Price Mechanism in an All-round Way," and put forward the suggestion on the consolidation of the abolition of the drugs plus the policy of " On the basis of the results, phasing out the medical supplies addition.
Comprehensive use of information technology, standardization of medical supplies, straighten out the purchase and sale of the chain, is clearly conducive to the national medical supplies market standardized management and consumables pricing and regulation, centralized procurement of medical supplies in different regions of the consumables and their prices between the statistical analysis And follow-up evaluation.Multi-sector also have proposed the abolition of medical supplies addition, medical consumables around the country have issued a 'two votes' policy, the government's determination to combat the high price of medical consumables unshakable.
However, there are still many problems in the classification and coding of medical consumable products in China, such as the lack of a complete system, the different forms of coding, the combination of numerical sequence codes, digital English codes, bar codes and two-dimensional codes. Consumables encoding, resulting in consumables logistics, information flow, capital flow can not be integrated and shared, unable to achieve medical consumables centralized purchase and sale in different regions of consumables and their prices of statistics, analysis, tracking and evaluation. 'National Health Development Research Center, Yu Lihua, deputy director of the Institutional and Medical Coding Research Center, pointed out.
Supply chain depth reconstruction
In the context of the transformation of China's pharmaceutical industry, the concentration of industries in the pharmaceutical and commercial fields has been enhanced, and it is crucial for every pharmaceutical and commercial company to take advantage of the opportunity. Regulatory aspects, the government has been encouraging large commercial circulation enterprises to merge through mergers and acquisitions, listing and financing , Bond issuance and other ways to speed up expansion and consolidation, bigger and stronger.For the target markets in the United States and other countries, the market share of the top three U.S. markets is 96%, Japan is 74%, Germany is 60% -70%, the United Kingdom is 85% , While China's top three together add up is not high enough.
Only the full market share in order to minimize the overall operating costs of the commercial circulation market, the circulation efficiency referred to the highest, will control the drawbacks to a minimum.Medical marketing management expert Wang Qiang told reporters that the field of equipment supplies deep pharmaceutical commercial supply chain Reconstruction of the architecture has already started. This round of commercial company integration is not a gathering of resources across horizontal provinces, but grafting of vertical resources and direct access directly to terminals.
There is no doubt that only in-depth research, planning, dredging medical supplies sunshine net procurement and 'two-vote system' business requirements, analysis of the status quo and the implementation of the goal of doing the top design, in order to ensure the consumables purchase and sale system to implement the integrity, Systematic, sustainable.
Lu Zhe, Director of Procurement Section of Hubei Public Resource Exchange Center, stressed: 'The phased work plan must be formulated and implemented step by step, and all the high-value medical supplies should be hung up. The demand for local supplies procurement platform has been gradually improved. Platform integration, to achieve the province's price, channel of a unified online platform, purchase and sale on-line linkage, monitoring the entire process; acquisition of hospital procurement, use, settlement and other data information for the 'medical, pharmaceutical, medical insurance' linkage provide systematic support.
For all levels of equipment supplies proxy Merchants, from the national agents to the provincial, prefecture-level, county, small parcels will be subject to varying degrees of buying and selling compliance impact, the extent of the impact depends on whether the need to open higher, can solve the open and grasp Terminal Resources. 'In the national version of the two-vote system, the national total generation can not be regarded as production enterprise , Downstream customers will have to bypass it and get goods directly from manufacturers and billing.Because there is no direct access to terminal resources, agents are more likely to be replaced by the market. "Wang Qiang said.