Healthcare informationization of the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong: experiences and inspirations / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Informationization as conducted by the Hospital Authority (HA) of Hong Kong features the following aspects.Collective deployment of IT professionals from its medical institutions is designed for development of a unified,coordinated and clinical centered information system among its medical institutions.In addition,HA has built a control center for centralized information system operation & maintenance,which enjoys sufficient funding support for health informationization.In the course of information sharing,HA pays close attention to patients' privacy protection.Shanghai Hospital Development Center can take HA's experience on municipal hospitals health informationization,for the purposes of building a unified,coordinated and clinical centered information system and furthering Shanghai municipal hospital's health informationization.