A new round of medical IT investment has emerged as the key to the construction of medical and health data centers

Ning Jiajun, as a national informatization expert, led the construction of a number of informatization projects in China. For medical IT construction, Ning Jiajun agrees and advances. For the development of medical informatization, Ning Jiajun, director of the National Information Center Committee of Experts, disclosed on August 8 that the center is working with the Ministry of Health to study and plan the national health protection informationization project. The basic framework has been completed and the future ministries and commissions Will jointly lead the completion of construction tasks.

According to a report released recently by the third-party organization IDC, IT spending in the medical industry reached 14.63 billion yuan in 2011. The growth rate was 28.9% from the previous year, accounting for nearly 0.8% of the total medical expenses, and the compound annual growth rate will still reach 18.4% in the next five years, which is higher than the average growth rate of IT market in other industries. Ning Jiajun further stated at the 2012 Education and Data Center Technology Summit Forum on August 8th that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, it is also prepared to further introduce a broader coverage of the national health protection informationization project. The current information center and the Ministry of Health are basically To complete the construction of the engineering framework, according to the preliminary assumptions, the future projects will include the four major business application systems of the primary health care management system, the integrated Chinese and Western medicine public health management information system, the medical and health public service information system, and the medical and health administrative supervision management system. Among them, for the primary medical institutions, the NDRC has issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Construction of Management Information Systems for Primary Medical and Health Institutions" and has already arranged for 1.25 billion yuan to complete the construction of an information system covering primary and secondary medical and health institutions in urban and rural areas by 2015. Apart from the first item currently issued by the NDRC, the latter three will be led by the relevant ministries and commissions. The Chinese and Western medical electronic medical records in the second and third items will be separately organized and constructed by the Ministry of Health and the Chinese Medicine Administration according to their respective functions. The third item of medical insurance card will be implemented by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security to construct the medical insurance payment subsystem. The last administrative supervision and management system of medical and health undertakings will include two parts: the basic drug system operation monitoring and evaluation information system and the basic medical and health service quality minimal evaluation system. The Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Administration will be mainly responsible for this. In addition, according to industry sources, more industry standards, including regional health information platforms, will be introduced within the year. In the future, the Ministry of Health will focus on promoting the application of relevant standards across the industry.

For the medical information construction mentioned above, Ning Jiajun pointed out that the construction of the medical and health data center will be the key. Lu Tianwen, general manager of ICT consulting, also introduced at the forum that in 2011, the investment in hospital data center infrastructure has reached 617 million yuan. The rate reached 14.3%.