Lately, the National Health Commission ("NHC") and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine ("SATCM") have jointly issued the Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Medical Services with the Focus on the People's Health (the "Opinions").
The Opinions clearly state that major efforts will be devoted to developing the "internet plus medical treatment and healthcare" by making innovative use of information network technologies to realize the diagnosis and treatment reservation and payment of medical expenses and employing emerging technologies like internet, artificial intelligence and wearable devices to build smart hospitals; also, the "multi-purpose one card" will be rolled out for residents to see doctors in any medical institution within the local region, and this one-card system will help realize the sharing of healthcare e-files and electronic medical history and the mutual recognition of test results, within the medical consortium. Moreover, the Opinions call for efforts to implement the level-based diagnosis and treatment system, realize the continual management of medical care quality during the level-based diagnosis and treatment, further improve laws and regulations relating to medical care and the medical care quality management system, advocate practices in strict accordance with laws, and operate the system of medical care quality management rules. Furthermore, the Opinions call for securing basic rights and interests of medical personnel according to the law and creating a sound environment to motivate medical personnel.