Vice Minister of Health: The National "Junior Card" is gradually realized

A hospital has a medical record and a hospital has a visiting card. This situation will change. The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China has recently issued the "Measures for the Administration of Residents' Health Cards (Trial)", a "residential health card" integrating medical cards, settlement cards, health records, and electronic medical records, and will soon be in Henan Province. Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, Foshan City, Guangdong Province and other places have been piloted. The nationwide medical “one card” is being gradually realized.

Vice Minister of Health Yin Li said on the 16th that the Resident Health Card will gradually unify the existing New Rural Cooperative Card and medical institution visit card and immunization vaccination certificate in order to facilitate residents to make an appointment and register for vaccination. Records, past visits, inspections, inspections, prescriptions, treatments, and billing.

Yin Li said that the residents' health card is conducive to transforming the existing medical and health service models, improving service quality and efficiency, reducing duplication of inspections, reducing the number of patient queuing queues, shortening the waiting time, improving medical experience, and solving the problem of “difficulous medical treatment and expensive medical treatment”. And to improve the relationship between doctors and patients will have a positive role in promoting.

He said that the residents' health card is an important link in the construction of health information, and it is the three-level information platform linking electronic health records, electronic medical records, and national, provincial and prefectural cities in the overall framework of health informationization to realize cross-business systems, cross-institutions, and cross- Regional interconnection, information sharing, and collaborative services, and promoting the construction of health informatization, are important carriers for directly serving the people.

According to reports, the residents' health card mainly has 4 functions. The first is identification; the second is cross-institutional medical visits; the third is storage of basic health and main medical information to achieve residents' health management; and fourth is the function of new rural cooperative medical expenses settlement and expansion. Support financial and other extended functions, such as joint issuance of cards with financial institutions for financial settlement.

Yin Li said that the use of personal information of residents' health cards was implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State's individual privacy protection.