ABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the Website establishment and its service in domestic medical information re-search institutions. Methods The Website establishment and its service in domestic medical information institutions were investigated at the national, provincial and municipal levels respectively. Results The Website establishment in domestic medical information institutions showed its diversified characteristics, including both traditional and e-merging service contents. The Website service form was rather simplistic with one-way information distribution as its main service. The Chinese resources were sufficiently developed, but their integration was poor. Platforms for Characteristic data and resources or databases were introduced by some medical information research institutions. Conclusion Medical information research institutions should pay their attention to the information needs of users, improve their service awareness, expand their service scope and depth, provide decision supporting information service, integrate medical information resources that can be shared, improve information supporting level and utilization ratio of medical information resources.