In April 2009, China announced a $124 billion health care reform plan to address the growing health care crisis in the country. The plan aims to reduce the uninsured from 70 percent now to about 10 percent by 2011--and pledges to improve health care for all citizens by 2020.Under the background of issuing New China Health Reform Plan (2009-2011)and With the development of information technology and healthcare industry in China, hospital information management will be promoted aggressively. Meanwhile, medical technology and service has shaping a new age of global healthcare industry, which will definitely contribute to build and upgrade healthcare information technology system. China medical institutions and hospitals are seeking for information technology and management solutions to promote healthcare industry which is characterized by integration of medical resource and service. So, how to use information technology to efficiently integrate data and information within various departments, how to use information technology to decrease hospitals’ operation and management cost, and to improve operational efficiency and management performance, and how to get improvement of performance and patient experience will be discussed and answered here.

 

Hospital Information
Management Committee

Health Information
Management Association
of Australia

Indian Association for
Medical Informatics