Digital hospitals not only need digital medical equipment, but also should incorporate various medical data and information into the network system. This requires a large number of medical system software. According to relevant units of statistics, in 2000, China **** development of about 80 billion yuan of IT software products, of which only 150 million yuan is the development of services for medical institutions, accounting for less than 0.2% of the total amount of software, even if coupled with the market for digitized medical equipment products, but also only 600 million yuan.
Currently, there are more than 30,000 hospitals nationwide***, of which 6,000 are more than three A hospitals.
It is estimated that just one hospital will spend more than 10 million yuan to establish a management information system. It is predicted that in the next 10 years, China, such as 70% of hospitals to achieve information management, the total market will reach more than 30 billion yuan, medical and health enterprises and institutions in the IT investment in five years will grow by 60%.