China Economic Review
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Medical information on tap
January 5, 2010
An EMR health IT platform to be used in China’s vast healthcare market to bring together information from thousands of sources.
MMR Information Systems and Unis-Tonghe will use a customized version of MMR’s MyMedicalRecords services, and professional document imaging and management solutions to network China.
UNIS, a subsidiary of Unisplendour and a division of Tsinghua, is one of China’s leading IT firms, employing more than 25,000 people.
The idea is to integrate the MyMedicalRecords PHR and MMRPro system into an EMR health IT platform to be used across China’s vast healthcare market.
This will be in support of a massive UNIS medical records development project for China’s 18,000 public hospital system, which will also be offered to as many as 10,000 private hospitals throughout the country.
China does not currently have a method of electronically acquiring, storing or transporting individual health records and that has become increasingly important in dealing with new health developments.
Money.com said China’s hospitals, located in over 4,000 cities, are not connected electronically. Now they will be through Cloud Computing operating MyMedicalRecords systems in conjunction with the Ministry of Health.