Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Informatics
Date Submitted: Sep 16, 2021
Date Accepted: Nov 14, 2021
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The Current status of Health Information Technology Industry in China from CHINC Conference: Cross-sectional Study of Participating Companies
ABSTRACT
Background:
The China Hospital Information Network Conference (CHINC) is one of the most influential academic and technical exchange activities in medical informatics and medical informatization in China. It collects frontier ideas in medical information and has an important reference value for the analysis of China's medical information industry development.
Objective:
To summarize the current situation and future development of China's medical information industry and provide a reference for China and abroad in the future by analyzing the characteristics of CHINC exhibitors in 2021.
Methods:
The list of enterprises and participating keywords were obtained by the official website of the conference. Basic characteristics of the enterprise, industrial field, applied technology, company concept and other information were collected via the TianYanCha website and VBDATA company library. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the collected data, and we summarized the future development directions.
Results:
A total of 205 enterprises officially participated in the exhibition. Most of the enterprises were newly founded, of which 61.95% (127/205)were founded in the last 10 years. The majority of these enterprises came from first-tier cities, and 79.02% (162/205) came from Beijing, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shanghai and Jiangsu provinces. The median registered capital is 16.67 million yuan, and there are 35 enterprises with a registered capital of more than 100 million yuan, 17 of which are already listed. Information manufacturers are the largest among the participating enterprises (30.95%, 39/126), and 16 of them (28.07%, 16/57) used artificial intelligence technology. Smart medicine and internet hospitals are the focus of the enterprises participating in this conference.
Conclusions:
China's tertiary hospital informatization has basically completed the construction of the primary stage. The average grade of hospital electronic medical records exceeded grade 3, and 78.13% of provinces reached grade 3 or above. The characteristics are as follows: on the one hand, China's medical information industry is focusing on the construction of smart hospitals, including intelligent systems supporting doctors' scientific research, DRG intelligent operation systems and OA office systems supporting hospital management, single disease clinical decision support systems assisting doctors' clinical care, and intelligent internet of things for logistics. On the other hand, the construction of a compact county medical community is becoming a new focus of enterprises under the guidance of practical needs and national policies to improve the quality of grassroots health services. In addition, whole course management and digital therapy will also become a new hotspot in the future.
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