China's Healthcare Industry IT Market 2013 Top 10 Forecasts

In 2012, the informatization market of the Chinese medical and health industry maintained rapid development. The informatization of county hospitals and community health service organizations, the construction of a regional health information platform, and the construction of public health systems in all provinces have become the main driving forces for the development of the medical industry's IT market. Mobile applications began to be used in large hospitals, social media continued to try to provide new medical service models, and cloud computing technology was widely accepted and gradually applied. IDC expects the IT market in China's healthcare industry to reach 17.66 billion yuan in 2012, a 21% increase over 2011.

In 2013, the reform of China's healthcare industry will be steadily advanced. The primary health care service system will be further improved. Public hospital reforms will be carried out in more hospitals. Public health services and food and drug safety management will be strengthened. Diversified medical services will develop rapidly. The role of informatization in promoting the sharing of medical resources and the prevention and treatment of major diseases has gradually increased. Regional health and public health platforms will maintain stable growth. The information systems of large hospitals will continue to upgrade, and new IT technologies will expand their application. Based on this, IDC made the following 10 major predictions for the IT market in China's healthcare industry in 2013:

1. Accelerate the informatization of basic medical and health institutions. The government will implement the financial subsidy policies of primary health care institutions and increase the level of protection of the new rural cooperative medical system. This will increase the input of grass-roots medical and health institutions, speed up the construction of information systems at the primary health care institutions, and the community health service centers in the central and western regions. Some township hospitals will begin to install and apply the HIS and CIS systems, while developed regions in the east will upgrade or unify information systems at the primary level, which will drive demand for PCs, servers, software, and services.

2. The development of the regional health information platform has expanded to a broader and deeper level. New technologies such as cloud computing, mobile applications, and social networking media have begun to be applied to regional health information service businesses. The regional health information platform in the eastern region began to support two-way referral and telemedicine, such as Shanghai, and integrated with the information systems of other parts of the city, becoming part of the construction of smart cities; in the provinces of the central and western regions and the northern regions, the economy is relatively developed. The city began to build a regional health platform, while the economically underdeveloped cities still need to wait until there are more budgets before they can start.

3. The reform of public hospitals continued to deepen, stimulating the upgrading of information systems. The regions where medicines are separated have expanded from Beijing and Shanghai to other provinces, and the number of hospitals with separate medicines has increased. With the separate implementation of medicines, the pricing, pricing and supervision of medical service projects are on the agenda. Medicines separately promote the upgrade of medical information systems such as the HIS system, which drives the growth of medical software and its service market.

4. Public health services and management have been strengthened, and investment in public health management information systems has increased. According to the Ministry of Health, in 2013, the per capita public health funding standard was raised to 30 yuan, and efforts were made to increase the per capita public health funding standard for remote and remote areas to 40 yuan. The pilot provinces of public health information systems in 2012 will strengthen the construction of public health information systems, and other provinces will start planning.

5. The food and drug safety supervision has been strengthened and the food and drug supervision information system has been established in more provinces and cities. In 2012 and in the past few years, the food and drug safety tracking and supervision system began to be built in some cities. Since 2013, there will be more cities to build food and drug safety tracking and supervision systems, and provincial-level systems will Start planning and construction.

6. The mobile application system has started construction in more large-scale top-three hospitals. Some large tertiary hospitals in developed regions launched mobile application pilot projects in 2012. They are mainly used in nurses and doctors' ward rounds. It is expected that more and more hospitals will begin deploying mobile applications in 2013, and hospitals that have already deployed pilot projects It will improve the problems in mobile applications and expand the pilot business.

7. In 2013, private hospitals and foreign-invested hospitals will grow rapidly and become a new area of ​​market growth. The Chinese government encourages the development of non-public hospitals and will create more opportunities for the IT market. At present, there are a large number of private hospitals in Shenzhen and its neighboring cities, while private and foreign-funded hospitals in the Mainland are mostly specialized hospitals with a small number. To supplement the lack of medical services, the Ministry of Health encourages the development of non-public hospitals. The development of non-public hospitals will drive the development of hospital information systems, insurance systems and customer service information systems.

8. With the deepening of reforms in public hospitals, the construction of hospital financial management systems has accelerated. With the promotion of the separate medical management model, the public hospitals will have higher income accounting requirements, and the accounting and supervision of medical service revenues will also become the focus. In 2012 and in previous years, the hospital's financial system was more of a bookkeeping function. It is expected that from 2013, the hospital's financial management system will be upgraded, and more hospitals will begin to deploy more comprehensive and integrate more closely with medical services. Financial management software.

9. The hospital will strengthen its use of electronic medical records, which will promote the integration of hospital systems and the development of BI. The electronic medical record application rating and hospital comprehensive rating standards all place high demands on the construction and use of electronic medical records. It is expected that in 2013, electronic medical records will be more deeply applied in large hospitals, and construction will begin in small and medium-sized hospitals.

10. Social Media Media continues to explore business models and profit models for providing medical services. The services provided by social networking media will continue to impact the current concept of health care reform. Before 2012, social media media provided services such as medical consultation and medical registration registration, but the profit model was not clear. It is expected that in 2013, social media will continue to explore how to find a clear profit model in the context of meeting medical regulatory requirements and continue to explore further development methods.