What is medical informatization?

Informatization of medical service is an international development trend. With the rapid development of information technology, more and more hospitals in China are accelerating the overall construction based on information platform and HIS system to improve the service level and core competitiveness of hospitals. Informatization not only improves doctors' work efficiency, allows doctors to have more time to serve patients, but also improves patients' satisfaction and trust, and invisibly establishes the scientific and technological image of the hospital. Therefore, the gradual integration of medical service application and basic network platform is becoming a new direction of informatization development of domestic hospitals, especially large and medium-sized hospitals.

Medical informatization is the digitalization, networking and informatization of medical services. It refers to the collection, storage, processing, extraction and data exchange of patient information and management information for hospitals and hospital departments through computer science, modern network communication technology and database technology, and meets the functional needs of all authorized users. According to the international unified level of medical system informatization, medical informatization construction is divided into three levels: hospital information management system, clinical information management system and public health informatization.

The informatization construction of most hospitals in China is still in the stage of hospital information management system construction, that is, hospital information management system with pricing/charging system and financial system as the core. The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" of the Ministry of Health clearly points out that health informatization is an important task to deepen medical reform. The Ministry of Health has initially determined the road map of China's health informatization construction, referred to as "352 1 project", that is, building national, provincial and municipal health information platforms, strengthening five business applications of public health, medical services, new rural cooperative medical system, essential drug system and comprehensive management, and building two basic databases of health records and electronic medical records and 1 private network.