Status survey of informatization infrastructure development of 155 hospitals in Anhui province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To learn the informatization infrastructure of Anhui provincial hospitals. Methods Questionnaire data of 155 public hospitals in Anhui province in the year 2017 by CHIMA were analyzed and compared with the national level.Based on the questionnaire survey, hospitals were randomly selected to interview their IT support staff.Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data.Results Only 5.30% (43/804) of the IT staff had master′s degree or above as found in their IT department.Network trunk bandwidth of 31 hospitals(20.00% , 31/155)reached 10 G; A total of 44 hospitals(28.39% , 44/155)had formulated comprehensive IT development plans. Conclusions Hospitals in Anhui province should strengthen their IT infrastructure construction and IT talent team building.On the other hand, the province should improve the informatization level of primary hospitals, and further hospital informationization by means of innovation in interconnections.