Research on the functional orientation of county-wide healthcare alliances in grounded theory / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the basic functional orientation of countywide healthcare alliances and how to maintain their stable operation and sustainable development direction. Methods 42 government officials, experts, employees of countywide healthcare alliances and residents were interviewed. The grounded theory was used to analyze data from the interview, with the core categories gradually extracted. Results Three basic functions were defined for such healthcare alliances, namely basic functions, stable operation and sustainable development. Conclusions The healthcare alliances prove an effective way to build the hierarchical medical system and improve people's health in general. Such alliances rely on good governance mechanism, reasonable balance mechanism of interests and scientific resource sharing mechanism.