Introduction of health card
Health cards are mainly used for identification of residents, storage of basic health information, inter-regional and inter-institutional medical treatment, expense settlement and financial services in medical and health service activities. It is the link and key to realize information exchange and sharing between residents and medical institutions, between medical institutions, between medical institutions and social public services and other related departments.
The construction of residents' health card is an important livelihood project to promote deepening medical reform, optimize service process, improve medical environment, realize service coordination of medical and health institutions and facilitate people's medical treatment.
All parts of the country began to discuss the possibility of realizing the universal health card and began to make partial attempts. On the 2nd, the Ministry of Health announced the "Pilot Measures for the Management of Residents' Health Cards" to promote all kinds of medical and health institutions at all levels to achieve "one card" for residents. Residents' health cards are based on regional health information platform, residents' electronic health records and medical institutions' electronic medical records, and can be used for residents' identification, personal basic health information storage, cross-regional and inter-institutional medical data exchange and expense settlement.