The main functions of the Maternal and Child Health Information Management System are:
Management Subsystem of Basic Records of Women and Children, Management Subsystem of Premarital Health Care Services, Management Subsystem of Family Planning Technical Services, Management Subsystem of Women's Disease Detection and Treatment, Management Subsystem of Maternal and Child Health Services, Management Subsystem of Maternity Health Care Services, Management Subsystem of Maternity High Risk, and Management Subsystem of Birth Medical Certificate, Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis Management Subsystem, Maternal Death Reporting Management Subsystem, Newborn Disease Screening Management Subsystem, Child Health Examination Management Subsystem, Frail Child Health Management Subsystem, Birth Defects Surveillance and Prevention Management Subsystem, Maternal and Infant HIV/AIDS Transmission Prevention Management Subsystem, Under-five Death Reporting Management Subsystem, and Maternal and Child Health Statistics Reporting System. There are more than 20 sub-systems, such as the Reporting System of Maternal and Child Health Statistics.
Morris Collen, a famous professor in this field in the United States, has made the following definition: the use of electronic computers and communication equipment for the various departments belonging to the medical field to provide the collection of patient diagnosis and treatment information and administrative information, storage, processing, extraction, and data exchange capabilities, and to meet the functional needs of all authorized users.
The development and realization of medical information systems in developed countries has a history of more than thirty years and has made great progress so far. The United States is the world's leader in the development and application of health information systems, there are many world-recognized successful system in the hospital to run effectively, like the Salt Lake City LDS Hospital's HELP system, the Massachusetts General Hospital's COSTAR system, the Veterans Administration's DHCP system.
China's medical information system can also be traced back to the beginning of the late 1970s, with the Nanjing Military Hospital with DJS-313 minicomputer development of medical information system software for the beginning. With the development of information technology, medical information systems gained popularity at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. 2007, the Ministry of Health surveyed 32 provinces, 615 prefecture-level cities, 2861 counties and 44,821 townships in China, of which 7 provinces, 32 prefecture-level cities and 231 counties have constructed the Maternal and Child Information System (MCIS), which accounted for 4%, and the proportion of maternal and child construction of MCIS in East China is close to 3%.
At present, the domestic research and development of medical informatization system of large-scale software companies are Neusoft Group Corporation, other enterprise vendors mainly include: Hefei Zhongwei Software Company Limited, Hefei Chengjie Information Science and Technology Company Limited, Anhui Zhongwei Remote Electronic Technology Company Limited, Beijing Huahuan Electronic Company Limited, Hefei Jingwei, Hefei NanSoft, Shandong ZongYang, Hangzhou ChuangYeJie, Hefei ZhongRun, Shanghai Jinshida, Wanda Information, Beijing Tianjian, Guangdong Julong Information Technology Co. (
Those who have passed the assessment of the Ministry of Health include Hefei Zhongwei Software Co., Ltd, Hefei Chengjie Information Technology Co., Ltd, Anhui Zhongwei Remote Electronic Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing Huahuan Electronic Co., Ltd, Shandong Zhongyang, Hangzhou Chuangye Software, Hefei Jingwei Information Technology Co., Ltd, Guangdong Jurong, Beijing Zongbang, and Shanghai Weining, etc.)
CHIMEMAS is the leading organization for research in the field of MCIS in China, and its chairman is Ding Hui, former CIO of Beijing Maternal and Child Health Hospital.