The CCmHi’s principal focus is to develop and evaluate innovative digital tools to improve the quality of health care in China.
Digital tools provide a particularly powerful means to improve community health care. With the rapid expansion of mobile Internet connectivity across China, the potential exists for sophisticated, clinical-decision support systems to provide health care workers with evidence-based, personalized guidance about the care of individual patients attending community medical facilities. Such systems can be linked to a range of electronic health records and point-of-care diagnostics. Consumer applications providing tools for self-care can also be provided.
Importantly, secure data transfer to a cloud-based server enables the quality and outcomes of care to be centrally monitored and managed by regional health authorities. Such a development would be directly relevant to the Chinese Government’s health care reform program as outlined in China’s 12th Five Year Plan.