China's healthcare resources have long suffered from an imbalance between regional allocations, and there are obvious differences in the provision of healthcare services between urban and rural areas, and between the east and west. In order to promote the continuous improvement and reform of the medical system and to explore the construction of a medical and health system suitable for the current situation in China, in the context of regional medical integration, the medical consortium model has attracted much attention and become a hot spot for research in the academic field. The main situation of the existing research results is as follows: there is a lack of systematic theoretical foundation research at home and abroad, and the pilot case studies of regional medical consortia are the main ones in China, while there is a lack of overall high-level research in the country, compared with domestic and foreign countries, the quantity of research on regional medical consortia is far less than the relevant research in foreign countries, and the overall quality of research is not high, and it is at a fledgling stage. Therefore, in future research, we should pursue diversification in methodology, cross-application of multiple disciplines, condensation of theoretical studies on the basis of case studies, in-depth research on research content and strengthening of localization of foreign experience.

Han Jiao. A Review of Research on Regional Medical Consortia. Academic Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences (2023) Vol. 4, Issue 3: 60-69. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJMHS.2023.040310.

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