IBM published the "wisdom of the medical programmes work hand in hand" in the new health reform process (1)

6 April, the central concern of the State Council on the deepening of medical system reform of opinions published by Xinhua News Agency.

In this new reform programme of the publication of the 8th, IBM (NYSE: IBM) greater China Software Group and IBM Zhongguokaifazhongxin (CDL) also jointly announced the establishment of "IBM healthcare industry solutions Lab" and published IBM wisdom medical series solution, as the "wisdom" in China falls to the ground in medical, benefit the public provides practical programmes and practices.

At the meeting, the national health information society information technology professional Committee Director Yao Chi-hung, said the new health reform section 14 refers explicitly to establish practical share medical information system and speed up the construction of medical and health information system and its programmes.

At present information is to promote a profound revolution in medical industry, China has also been equipped with a fast information development of the basis and conditions. It is reported that in April 6, 2009 issued new health reform programmes, the information as one of the pillars, unprecedented in occupies a special section in the programme, the new health reform programme in five of the reform objectives are left informalization of support.

Because of the wide range of health information, the entire information system complexity is high, the massive data storage, retrieval, data mining and management of great difficulty, "only through the information to create Chinese characteristics of health care system.

"Yao Chi-hung the last assertion.

After the meeting, IT expert network reporter Yao Chi-hung Director and IBM China software Department information management technology manager liujing Wei interviews were conducted.

The following recording is Yao Zhi-Wei, Manager, Director and liujing on how to make flexible use of information technology to implement the "new health reform" policy interviews memoir.

Reporter: new health reform proposal to accelerate the construction of medical and health information system, established residents health records.

Well, nation-wide information sharing operation most heavy and difficult?

A: new health reform proposed by the information technology programme is actually very large very difficult for a project and not a short period of time to achieve.

And in the information development building, we face the challenges are many: lack of perfect long-term strategic planning and research; health information standards do not meet the needs of the medical information development; the data format is different, the lack of harmonization of standards; information sharing is to maximize the value of information of important ways, but shared consciousness not strong; " As the Center, silo, "segmentation; regional medical information systems development start-up, on regional medical information system complexity comprehend; universal health insurance is a formidable system engineering, basic research and feasibility studies without first; system complex, lack of models and technologies supporting framework; large-scale systems integration and consolidation inexperienced; medical industry information medical industry's information technology infrastructure, are relatively; lack of scale and technological strength of large companies participate in, and so on, these problems are solved. To overcome these challenges to achieve the purpose of medical information, you first need to make our Government planning: some hospitals have implemented information items in its internal operations are also pretty good, but in the final analysis or a small range of information, not in the true sense of the "information sharing", this is not enough. Therefore, the need for Government-led the construction by the Central Ministry of health of the overall planning, then drilling down to the lower hierarchical optimization. Second is the need for a unified standard: now some hospital Informationization construction does have some progress, but since the data format, to all hospitals information sharing between created a serious difficulties, the patients in a hospital has just established electronic medical record, is often needed after referral to build the hospital's medical history, all over again, resulting in tremendous waste. So this should be a uniform standards to regulate this information in order to truly "information sharing, information sharing".