Research On Problems And Countermeasures Of Medical Devices Circulating At Present In China

People strongly complain recently that it is quite difficult in seeing a doctor and the cost at hospital is much expensive, which gradually becomes a social issue. Presently our government concentrates much effort to solve this problem when considering this issue relates to construction of a harmonious society, and also makes a survey from societies for different solutions and methods.Medical devices, a special kind of commodity relating to people's health and life safety, are not only the effective tools for doctors to cure illness, but a source of collecting charges for hospital. The circulation of medical devices is strictly supervised by authorities and also concerned by all societies. Under background of issue for difficulty in seeing a doctor, the problem existing in medical device circulation, especially when poor circulation is out of control and supervision is malfunctioned, requires us to take a further analysis and studies.This paper systematically elaborates current situation, its main problems and root causes for medical device circulation in China. Based on our current system and regulation, as well as marketing supervision on medical devices, the author raises a solution to solve current main problems, after studying some successful experiences on supervision of medical devices in US and Europe and also referring to actual situation in our country. Breaking through the present dilemma and developing our medical device circulation along the healthy way is expected under this solution.High demand is a main characters in our medical device circulation marketing. The other characters include small manufacture/sales scale for medical devices, relying on importing for middle-end and high-end products and lower utilizing efficiency for imported large-scale medical equipment. Extremely high price of medical devices in long period is a main issue in medical device circulation. Continuous high marketing demands, much high cost for manufacture and circulation because of inflation, higher sales price because of tax ratio and currency exchange rate, technical monopoly, complicated circulation, unbalance information for patient and hospital, and even illegal business action are directly the economical reasons.There are three main factors to affect China's medical device circulation. They are including technical factor, regulation factor and law factor. Technical factor and law factor are belonging to systematical factor, improvement on which is gradually forwarding in a much long term, while regulation factor is a factor which can solve many existing problems in medical device circulation by reforming some related system. The author suggests a solution which can play a great role in solve current existing problem in medical device circulation in China, and the countermeasures include compensation system setup for state-owned hospital, guideline for medical device purchasing, minimizing the circulation, channel development, third-party supervision system, public-shared for medical device, effective supplies for medical devices in countryside by government's group manufacturing & purchasing, etc.