Some time ago, there was a hot video on the Internet. In the video, the girl denounced the hospital dealer, fired the expert number from 300 yuan to 4 500 yuan, and accused the security guard of acquiescing in the dealer’s behavior, resulting in her mother and other ordinary patients [waiting in line for so long but not being able to get the number].
Although some cities have set up unified registration platforms and many hospitals have also developed official apps, it is still difficult to solve the problem of difficult registration. As soon as these apps were launched, the number source inside was targeted by professional scalpers.
The Internet has solved the problem of unequal information, but it is difficult to touch the problem of unequal resources.
Medical resources should have been enjoyed fairly, but high-quality medical resources are not only scarce but also highly concentrated, which will inevitably give birth to rent-seeking space.
It is difficult and expensive to see a doctor. Is it useful to increase medical resources?
Speaking of the difficulty and high cost of medical treatment, many people’s first reaction is usually: medical resources are not enough, there should be more hospitals, more medical staff, more drugs, more beds…
However, take higher education as an example: since the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities at the end of last century, the educational resources are already very rich and even surplus. Why do people still yearn for prestigious universities?
Because high-quality resources are always scarce, and people’s desires will always expand endlessly.
Although many people are reluctant to accept it, medical resources are essentially a commodity. Since they are commodities, the higher the price of high-quality commodities will be. Even if the total amount of medical resources is sufficient, high-quality medical resources are scarce. Some economists even rudely say that scalpers are just [finding the real price].
Increasing the number of high-quality private medical institutions may be one direction.
At present, the most likely way to improve is to set up more high-quality private hospitals and clinics so that high-income and middle-class people can enjoy these services, and low-income people can enjoy lower-priced services relatively fairly in public hospitals.
Now more and more doctors are considering setting up their own clinics, and many high-quality private capital has begun to invest in the development of private hospitals and clinics.
This is a brand-new field, but there is no mature model and direction.
Blocking information is not conducive to the development of the industry.
Friends who pay close attention to Dr. Clove may have heard that the Clove Clinic has officially opened.
In fact, in the process of preparing the clinic, we tried to seek experience from our peers, but we also encountered the problem of [unequal information].
When purchasing diagnostic beds, we hope to be able to buy convenient, beautiful, experienced and reasonably priced diagnostic beds, but most of the diagnostic beds provided by domestic suppliers do not meet expectations.
We thought that we had seen some very good clinical beds during our visit to the United States, so we began to consider purchasing them directly from overseas. Therefore, we found a colleague who also purchased clinical beds from overseas.
However, the purchasing manager of this colleague is not willing to tell us the contact information of overseas suppliers, but hopes that we can purchase through their channels. This kind of thing is not strange…
In the Internet era, one can understand the situation in what on the other side of the world with one finger. It is not meaningful to set up competition barriers through unequal information.
As a result, we searched for relevant information on the Internet and soon found some suppliers in the United States. After making inquiries and comparing prices, we finally selected a supplier.
Their beds are not only of good quality, but also the freight plus customs duties. The price of each bed is less than 9,000 RMB, while the price of the same bed is 30,000 RMB.
If we want an industry to have a complete ecology and develop and mature rapidly, we need more smooth industry information instead of standing still and establishing so-called competition barriers.
Who is willing to share this information?
We believe that a standard and replicable service process is the guarantee of the service quality of chain clinics. Therefore, in the process of preparing the clove clinic, we spent a lot of energy and discussed with the designer how to formulate a set of perfect service standards so that different medical staff can have a unified reference and patients can obtain the same experience.
From the purchase of various drugs and equipment in the clinic, to the design of prescription forms, to the setting of prices, to the recruitment and training of doctors, to the cooperation with third-party laboratory agencies, to the construction of online service systems… Now we can finally say that we have gone through all these, gone through some detours, and also had some experience.
The field of private medical institutions is full of opportunities and challenges. Clove Clinic will meet this change with an open mind.
Any medical institution, whether a hospital or a clinic, is welcome to contact us if you have any questions or ideas about the clinic. We are willing to discuss with you and provide free consulting services, such as how to quickly purchase high-quality equipment from overseas.
Our experience, systems, prices, service standards and even funds will all be open to support all peers. I hope this can promote the development and maturity of the entire industry and provide useful supplements for public medical resources.