E-health in China, our practice and exploration

Author

Junping, Zhao ; Zhenjiang, Zhang ; Huayuang, Guo ; Yi, Li ; Wanguo, Xue ; Yunqi, Chen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Med. Inf., PLA Gen. Hosp., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

4888

Lastpage

4893

Abstract

China started to pay more attention to regional and national health information network construction after the SARS epidemic outbreak in 2003. The Chinese government marks the public health system construction as the most urgent part of national medical reform, with information and computer technology (ICT) being considered as the key of deploying regional collaborative medical service (RCMS), which is also known as e-health. In this paper, we firstly analyze the difficulties of carrying out e-health projects in China and then present the active attempts, finally a case representing current progress is presented and studied.

Keywords

information services; medical information systems; China; e-health; health information network; information and computer technology; public health system construction; regional collaborative medical service; E-health; RCMS; Regional collaborative medical service; China; Databases as Topic; Disease Outbreaks; Humans; National Health Programs; Public Health Informatics; Regional Health Planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332820

Filename

5332820