Thinking on the construction of medical equipment management system based on the response to COVID-19 epidemic / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

As an important part of public emergency response mechanism, medical supplies and equipment support is an important material support for medical rescue and disposal.For the medical equipment management industry, the epidemic prevention and control practice is a major test, but also a leap forward development opportunity. Based on the working experience, the authors put forward that medical equipment support should be upgraded to the strategic material support for the prevention and control of major infectious diseases. It is suggested to improve the whole process support management system of medical equipment purchase, collection, allocation and donation. The authors discuss how to implement the construction of medical equipment support elements from four aspects of system, technology, supply chain and information system, and also discuss how to promote the development of medical engineering interdisciplinary.