On May 16, the China Medical Imaging Information Technology Conference and the 7th China PACS Conference were held in Shanghai. Experts at the meeting said that the medical service process of imaging under the Internet is changing dramatically, and many provinces and cities in China are piloting the construction of a medical association or regional imaging platform to ultimately realize interconnectivity and information ****sharing.
According to Shanghai Shuguang Hospital affiliated with the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of Radiology Zhan Songhua introduced, with the development of information technology, patients from the past queue film, waiting for the reading of the film and other medical examination process, and gradually transformed into the use of imaging inspection electronic application form. That is to say, patients in the outpatient clinic, through the physician issued by the electronic application form to know the cost of examination, examination time and specific location, without the need for price, charges, queuing, and do not need to travel to and from the radiology department several times to register, the outpatient physician can be directly booked to determine the examination time and machine room. According to Zhan Songhua, many regions in China have begun to pilot the construction of imaging platforms jointly operated by multiple hospitals. Led by a central hospital or regional medical center, with the participation of many secondary hospitals and first-class hospitals, the imaging data will be centralized to write a unified report, and the lower-level hospitals can upload images and access diagnostic reports at any time. However, factors such as image quality, level of diagnosis and treatment technology, and charging standards are constraining the construction of the imaging platform.
Meng Jianguo, deputy secretary general of the China Medical Equipment Association, pointed out that the interconnection of hospital equipment and information systems should first unify transmission standards. The association has conducted 11 tests since the introduction of medical information system integration, *** tested 410 sets of medical systems, declared 3484 roles; 2224 functional roles passed the test, a pass rate of 63.83%, promoting the establishment and development of domestic medical information standards. The conference was organized by China Medical Equipment Association and eMedicine.