Research on regional health information resources planning / 中华医院管理杂志

Regional health planning is a leading and scientific management philosophy for healthcare development in the international community.Information resources planning paves the way for scientific development.In the ongoing health reform in China,planning of regional health resources will play a key role by leveraging information technology.From the viewpoints of health information resources and information resources planning,the paper defines the concept of regional health information resources planning in microcosmic perspective.It summarized the five features of public welfare,specificity,imbalance,small channel and low noise,and non-symmetry.Authors compared the five planning modes,namely the community medical information resources mode,the general hospitals as the center of information resource mode,the regional PACS mode,the regional health data resource mode,and the regional medical coordination resources mode.In the paper,the planning is rounded up as four key points,that is,the basic steps of situation assessment and analysis,routine work of health information standardization,the planning should both comply with general rules of information resource planning and characteristics of the health sector,in addition to guidelines of forward-looking concepts.

General design of the methodology of regional health information resources planning / 中华医院管理杂志

To identify the key elements and available tools of regional health information resources plamling,the study introduced an innovative I-beam map,aiming to solve the two key questions of what and how to plan The paper covered such issues of planning as what is the present situation of regional health information,how to divide functional categories of regional health information resources,what are included in the business subclasses,which core data are used in the business process,which data to share and exchange,how to regulate such data,how to manage the regulations and make continuous improvement,and how to evolve towards planning standardization discriminatively.The study also drew a midfield line with such seven fields as medical service,maternity and child care,disease control and Drevention,health administration,emergency management,blood management and primary healtheare.This midfield line is used,along with stakeholders,planning process,information flow and planning output make the four quadrants,describing the whole process in the I-beam form.This practice can provide the methodology ofhow to plan,in the hope of guiding regional health information resource planning from theory to practice.