Medical Insurance Bureau: unified consumables recruitment platform for national linkage

Multi-province recruitment and acquisition data migration work in progress

A few days ago, Beijing issued the "Notice on the Switching and Migration of Beijing Sunshine Procurement Platform for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Consumables" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice")
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The "Notice" proposes that in order to build a unified national medical security information platform and provide more efficient and high-quality medical insurance services, in accordance with the requirements of the National Medical Security Bureau, combined with the Beijing medical security information platform construction arrangements, it is scheduled to be from November 5th to November 5, 2021.
During the period of November 27th, use the night of workdays and all day on weekends to shut down for data migration
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Not only in Beijing, the data migration work on the recruitment platform for construction consumables has already begun in many places
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In August, Hebei Medical Devices and Drug centralized purchasing center issued "on the Handan City, medical supplies and other four data migration to national platforms"
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It is required that in accordance with the overall plan of the National Medical Insurance Bureau to build a drug and medical consumables platform and the information construction requirements of our province, the drug and medical consumables platform of Hebei Province will be migrated to the platform of the National Medical Insurance Bureau in the near future.
All medical consumables data of online transactions will be migrated to the national platform simultaneously
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Data combing refers to the medical consumables that have been traded on the consumable platforms of Handan, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, and Zhangjiakou but not on the provincial platforms, and the medical consumables whose prices are lower than those on the provincial platforms in the four cities must be produced by the manufacturer.
After the company has sorted it out, fill in the product and price information on the provincial platform, and provide a screenshot of the network on the city platform or the bid winning notice
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Medical institutions in Handan and other four cities are required to purchase medical consumables on the provincial platform
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A few days ago, the Henan Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Sunshine Networking of Medical Consumables", stating that starting from October 1st, it will adhere to a platform for the whole province and that all medical consumables required by public medical institutions at all levels must pass the provincial medicine Procurement platform procurement
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The scope of the institution is that all public medical institutions and military medical institutions in Henan (hereinafter collectively referred to as medical institutions) in the province all implement the sunshine online procurement of medical consumables, and other medical insurance designated social medical institutions are gradually included in the sunshine online procurement scope
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On October 15th, the Shandong Provincial Government Procurement Center also issued a notice that the migration of the first batch of medical consumables data from the centralized procurement platform for medical equipment in Shandong began
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According to the Shandong Province "Notice on Data Migration of the Centralized Procurement Platform for Medical Consumables", this time Shandong Province will migrate the first batch of databases of the centralized procurement platform for medical consumables to the Shandong Provincial Centralized Procurement Platform for Pharmaceutical Equipment (and the national platform)
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The unified national platform is expected to land before the end of the year

With the completion of local data migration, the national unified recruitment and procurement information platform has been put into use and the countdown has begun
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Recently, Yan Juan, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Social Security and executive deputy director of the Medical Insurance Special Committee, said in an interview with China Medical Insurance that at present, the coding mapping and testing operations of the provinces have basically been completed, and the implementation and acceptance work has been progressing in an orderly manner
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For the establishment of a unified platform, the National Medical Insurance Bureau has repeatedly clarified the progress and requirements
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In November 2020, the National Medical Security Administration pointed out in the "Reply to Recommendation No.
7777 of the Third Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress" that in accordance with the deployment requirements of the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the Reform of the Medical Security System", the country is advancing the establishment of A provincial-level bidding and procurement platform that integrates bidding, procurement, trading, settlement, and supervision, promotes the construction of a regional and national alliance procurement mechanism, and forms a fully competitive, reasonable price, and standardized and orderly supply guarantee system
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The reply stated that the National Medical Insurance Administration is coordinating the construction of a unified national medical security information platform drug and medical consumables recruitment management subsystem, realizing a nationwide linkage of drug consumable recruitment, distribution, and supervision, and meeting unified coding, unified mode, unified supervision, and territoriality According to the needs of management, the final inspection work of the project will be completed before the end of 2020 according to the progress of the project
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On August 9, the National Medical Insurance Administration pointed out in the "Response to Recommendation No.
7843 of the Fourth Session of the 13th National People's Congress" that it is making every effort to promote the deployment and application of a unified, efficient, compatible, convenient and safe national medical insurance information platform.
Speed ​​up the establishment of a unified national medical insurance information platform to realize the informatization of medical insurance management
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The national platform includes 14 business subsystems in four major categories, including medical insurance intelligent supervision subsystem, drug and medical consumable recruitment management subsystem, macro decision-making big data application subsystem, etc.
, Through the big data actuarial analysis technology, help improve the scientific decision-making of medical insurance policies and the refined management of funds, and comprehensively support the improvement of the national medical insurance standardization, intelligence and information level
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What are the functions of the national platform? What impact will it have on the centralized procurement of consumables? According to people familiar with the matter, the national platform is not intended to replace the existing provincial-level bidding platforms, but to form a structured and branched bidding system.
The National Bureau can monitor and pre-warn the purchase amount, quantity, frequency and other behaviors
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The final result can be achieved in terms of monitoring platform linkage data, medical institution payment cycle, production, operation and distribution
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After the establishment of the national medical insurance information platform, a series of actions and links such as recruitment, supervision, and payment collection will be carried out and completed on a unified national platform, and problems such as gray areas and "triangular debt" will be further cleared and contained