Health card summary
It is mainly used for resident identification, basic health information storage, cross-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. The resident health card will integrate the social security card, the new rural cooperative medical system card and the medical institution card to record all the medical information of a person from birth to death.
Electronic health card is a unified standard medical service card which is planned and implemented by National Health Commission, distributed to all residents and used in medical and health institutions all over the country, and is convenient for residents to seek medical treatment. It can realize the whole process health management of residents and improve the unified service level of residents' health.