Integration of the regional public health resources and establishment of the digital hospital

It is generally accepted that digitized hospital is of great significance in reducing medical errors, improving the quality of medical care and service, and lowering the costs. In recent years, most of the 17 thousands hospitals in China have made arduous and continuous efforts in establishing hospital information systems, however, the outcome is not promising, even in the developed countries, the result of their practice in such efforts is not satisfied. In this paper, we proposed a new method for establishment of digital hospital, with emphasis on the integration of the regional health resources, such as human resources, advanced information technologies, funds, experiences, project management, etc. This approach consists of three main points, first, sharing the regional human resources and standardization of the professional requirements and technical design; second, adopting the "first experimentation and then promotion" strategy and efficiently utilizing public health resources; third, researching and exploring the advanced methods of project management of the health information system and sharing positive as well as negative experiences. We believed these suggestions among others are useful for efficient establishment of digital hospital in the future.