Under the vigorous promotion of national policies, by the end of 2018, the construction of the national medical consortium has been fully launched, and all public tertiary hospitals have actively participated in the construction of medical consortium. The practice of lead-type close medical consortium in West China Hospital of Sichuan University is an innovative exploration in the context of the new national medical reform. Combining the social responsibilities, location characteristics, functional orientation of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and the remarkable results of the lead-type close medical consortium, this article elaborats three distinctive features of the lead-type close medical consortium, namely the cooperation between the government and the hospitals as the cornerstone, the hierarchical collaboration as the core, and the medical care and great health as the guiding principle, to provide a reference for the construction of a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system in China.
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 has become a public health emergency of global concern, posing a great threat to people’s health. As a state-level large-scale general hospital with rich medical rescue experience in dealing with emergent public health events, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and earthquake, West China Hospital of Sichuan University quickly established six working mechanisms for telemedicine. West China Hospital of Sichuan University set up a team of clinicians to provide multi-disciplinary telemedicine consultation, telemedicine education and joint rounds on line with the 5th generation mobile networks, which designed to help estimate patients’ condition, innovate the mode of diagnosis and treatment, and improve service efficiency in remote institutions including preferred hospitals for coronavirus disease 2019 patients in Sichuan Province and telemedicine alliance units outside the province.