Guizhou expands internet, medical service integration

Southwest China's Guizhou province has reportedly advanced its construction as a national big data medical center and a demonstration model for the integration of the internet and medical services since the start of the current year.

Guizhou's 5G+ medical services apps – some 14 of them – have to date been selected as national pilot programs, while seven internet hospitals have begun construction and the integration of internet and medical services is understood to have made marked progress.

In recent years, the province has launched several plans to get the public hospitals to become smart. It has also set standards for medical data, guaranteed internet security and promoted the collecting, sharing and application of medical data.

Guizhou's medical institutions at all levels have begun the development of informatization centered around electronic medical records. The cities of Tongren, Zunyi and Anshun – as well as the Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao autonomous prefecture – have realized cloud storing, sharing and diagnoses of clinical imaging examinations.

During the first 11 months of the year, Guizhou offered 771,000 individual procedures of remote medical services and about 763,000 patients made online reservations with Guizhou's public medical institutions above the county level.

Guizhou's provincial supervision platform for medicine is reportedly connected with 260 medical institutions – in an initiative designed to strengthen the pre-reminder, in-process management and post-supervision of medical services and medicine use.

In addition, the province's Qiankangma QR health code has been widely promoted and applied and is connected with the data for nucleic acid tests and COVID-19 vaccinations.