The management of medical consumables in the cost control of hospital / 中国医学装备

ABSTRACT

Objective: To strengthen the management of medical consumable of hospital, and adapt the public welfare characteristic of hospital, and control the use of medical consumable, and reduce burden of patients, and decrease expenditure of medical healthcare insurance fund so as to establish economic base for realizing the redeveloping of hospital. Methods: Hospital must strengthen internal management, and improve the existed problem in the link of "receive-use-repurchase" of consumables management. Besides, hospital should especially strengthen the management of medical consumables. Results: As above measures, hospital has formulated countermeasures for fortifying the management of medical consumables, and strengthened supervision of purchasing. Besides, hospital has carried out performance assessment of cost from consciousness, and carried out informatization and intelligentialize of materials management system from details. And the management of consumables has be implemented in plan, out-put and in-put of warehouse, application and use management. Conclusion: The strengthening of medical consumable management of hospital can reduce the total cost of medical consumables of patients in treatment and its proportion in the operating cost of hospital. And it can alleviate burden of patients, and it also can reduce the expenditure of medical healthcare insurance fund and operating cost of hospital.