This year's "Precision Health Industry Policy White Paper" is mainly composed of opinions from discussions, surveys and other opinions from multiple experts. It is hoped that the government can adopt and implement it to improve precision health for all people. There are five key points in the policy content:
1. Optimize medical allocation with precision health to benefit people’s health and well-being
Cai Zhengxian said that the first demand is how to use precision health to optimize the current allocation of medical resources and make the most efficient use of resources. "The people who benefit the most from limited resources will get the best treatment at the right time." Resources, whether prevention, diagnosis or treatment, can benefit the most people.”
For example, why does the Changhua County Health Bureau provide funding to promote post-marital and pre-pregnancy health check-up subsidies, making it the only county or city in Taiwan that subsidizes iran telegram screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)? It is precisely because the carrier rate of this disease is very high, reaching 2%, which means that for every 50 people, there are at least 1 to 2 carriers.
Taking Taiwan as an example, there will be a total of 139,000 newborns in 2022. If each person is tested for SMA and the average price of a test is 2,500 yuan, it will cost about 340 million yuan, and the prevalence rate of 1 in 10,000 can be reduced to zero. This is a saving of nearly one-third of the 9.3 billion yuan allocated for special drugs for rare diseases.
The cost of drugs, compared with the drug budget after the onset of the disease, if prenatal precision maternal-fetal medicine genetic testing can be expanded to make prevention better than treatment, it will reduce the occurrence of severe diseases and save medical expenses. resources, and can effectively allocate resources to people who are more urgent and in need.
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