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As a recognized and effective decision-making assessment tool, health technology assessment can provide scientific support for scientific decision-making such as medical devices deployment and management. This study highlighted the necessity of medical device health technology assessment by studying the development history of health technology assessment at home and abroad. On this basis, the authors pointed out the necessity of medical device health technology assessment from the perspective of laws and decrees of the country, deepening of the healthcare reform, medical insurance directory, as well as enhancement of medical quality and patient safety. Also analyzed are such problems as development of health technology assessors, system construction, and policy transformation capability.
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Centering on the reform practice in Sanming featuring a synergistic reform in public health services,medical insurance and medicine production-circulation (Tripartite-sector reform below),this paper focused on the top-level design of the management system in such a reform and its synergistic operation mechanism.The authors probed into the main reasons for its grounding-breaking success and challenges,to pave way for their discussions on the reproducibility and sustainability of the reform.
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Success of Sanming's heahhcare reform relies heavily on the government's dominant role.Based on this inspiration,the paper discussed the responsibilities expected of the government in health protection of the people as required by national strategy,public interests and market demands,and presented the corresponding responsibilities of the government in the protection,leadership,scrutiny and management for the sake of public health.In addition the paper recommended on policies to make up for the absence and dislocation of governmental responsibilities,including all-out efforts for legislations in health protection,greater government subsidy for health protection,development of a comprehensive supervision system,and establishment of entities accountable for people's health in general.