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.
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The responsibility of the Ministry of Health for overall planning and coordination, formulating policies and norms, assigning password numbers and strengthening comprehensive management is clear, the responsibility of strengthening territorial management and ensuring effective organization and implementation is clear, and the responsibility of grassroots medical and health institutions for simultaneously developing residents' electronic health records, issuing residents' health cards and ensuring effective use is clear.
To implement the task of health informatization, we should do a good job in regional planning, pay attention to integrating existing resources, give full play to the advantages and functions of various social forces in capital, human resources and information technology, and establish a multi-channel investment mechanism; It is necessary to do a good job in the construction of health informatization team, improve the introduction, training, use and incentive mechanism of talents, focus on cultivating compound talents with dual backgrounds of medicine and informatics, and cultivate practical talents who understand technology and can apply it.