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Current Status, Challenges and Outlook of E-health Record Systems in China

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Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Systems

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Abstract

China (the mainland) is a developing country with a large population over a vast area, where healthcare services are not balanced. The Chinese government faces a mammoth task to provide health and medical services to the population. About eight years ago, the government defined its direction to electronic health (e-health). Since then, hundreds of e-health record systems have been developed, but the systems are still in their infancy. For the establishment of matured e-health record systems, this paper examines current status of China’s development of e-health record systems, identifies the challenges encountered by the development and analyses the outlook of future systems in China.

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This research is supported by Australian Government under the Australia–China Science and Research Fund.

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    Xiangzhu Gao, Jun Xu, Golam Sorwar & Peter Croll

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Gao, X., Xu, J., Sorwar, G., Croll, P. (2014). Current Status, Challenges and Outlook of E-health Record Systems in China. In: Sun, F., Li, T., Li, H. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37829-4_64

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