Constructing digitized hospitals with Chinese characteristics / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

A digitized hospital is one with network management as its basic mode, information as the primary driving force of its development, information technology as a prop to enhance its technological strength, information culture as a way to change the ways of peoples education and work and their ideological concepts, and construction of information systems as a new growth point of its advancement. While construction of digitized hospitals is a natural trend of historical development and is presently viable, construction of information systems in domestic hospitals must be based on Chinas realities so as to build digitized hospitals with Chinese characteristics. In light of their hospitals experience in building itself into a digitized hospital, the authors point out that it is necessary to formulate in the first place an overall objective in view of the requirements of digitized hospitals and then proceed step by step according to plan.