The programme will see patients use interactive kiosks and remote health monitoring devices in villages and community hospitals across Shandong to record health information and have it instantly transmitted to their healthcare provider.
The project is a partnership between Canada-based Ideal Life, which provides mobile health and wellness systems, and China’s Shandong NovaTech Biological Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical manufacturer and medical products distribution network in China.
Introducing the new platform at a press briefing today (December 1), the Deputy Government Chief Information Officer (Policy and Customer Service), Miss Joey Lam, said the launch of MyGovHK marked another significant step in the development of citizen-centric e-government services.
"Riding on the success of the government portal GovHK,we developed MyGovHK with a view to providing a more user-friendly and personalised experience for the public to interact with the Government," Miss Lam said.
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At the Beijing-Hong Kong Smart City Construction Exchanges Fair on Nov. 24, Beijing introduced the status and future development trends of Smart Beijing construction and the application of the emerging technologies and industries, such as cloud computing, to Hong Kong. There were agreements on seven Beijing and Hong Kong cooperation projects in information technology signed at the meeting amounting to 150 million.
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All patient records should be available electronically to every doctor in Hong Kong through a dedicated e-health portal within three years, and to all patients by 2015, noted Dr C. P. Wong, Co-Chairman, Clinical Informatics Programme Steering Committee, Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
But although 100 per cent of doctors in the territory’s 44 public hospitals are using the ePR system, only 30 per cent of Hong Kong’s 4000 private doctors are doing so too, he pointed out.
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A Government spokesman said: "This marks the launchof the second stage of the eHR engagement initiative (EEI), a major government step to put in place an essential infrastructure for implementing healthcare reform."
The Government is committed to developing a territory-wide patient-oriented eHR sharing system for healthcare professionals in both public and private sectors to access, store and retrieve patients' health records, to realise the concept "records follow patients".
Weiterlesen: China: Hong Kong: Second stage electronic health record engagement initiative launched