Yueqing No.2 People's Hospital Medical Consortium Featured on CCTV News for Integrated Healthcare Innovation
On May 30, 2021, CCTV’s “Xinwen Lianbo” (News Broadcast) aired a news segment titled “Zhejiang Promotes High-Quality Sharing of Public Services,” which focused on the healthcare sector in Yueqing and reported on the achievements of the medical community consortium construction at the Second People’s Hospital of Yueqing City.
According to CCTV, with the aid of remote technology, a patient in Danxi Town, Yueqing City, who had just undergone an electrocardiogram (ECG), was receiving a consultation from physicians in the city. Within one minute, the analysis report was transmitted back to the patient’s attending physician. By connecting branch hospitals in various towns and townships to the health-specific private network via the big data center, seamless information exchange with the main hospital is enabled at any time, allowing local residents to access high-quality, convenient medical and healthcare services.
Zhao Xiaohai, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Yueqing Second People’s Hospital, stated, “Our medical consortium has initially achieved integrated operations and standardized management, effectively bridging the gap between the main hospital and its branch facilities. This has enabled the sharing of medical resources, enhanced integration of clinical care and public health services, and improved patient satisfaction.”
In 2019, Yueqing City fully launched the construction of medical consortia, introduced a “1+11” supporting policy framework, and established three medical consortium entities. It advanced supply-side structural reform of county-level healthcare services, actively fostered a new order featuring tiered diagnosis and treatment, appropriate care, and orderly patient flow, promoted the sharing of healthcare resources, strengthened primary healthcare service capacity, and better met the public’s healthcare needs.
Yueqing Second People's Hospital Central Pharmacy Intelligent Secondary Storage
The Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community was established in March 2019. Led by the Yueqing Second People's Hospital, it serves a population of approximately 400,000 in the central and eastern parts of Yueqing City and surrounding counties and cities, encompassing 10 township health centers, 19 community health service stations, and 72 village clinics.
Previously, Yueqing Second People's Hospital had already begun assembling an in-house team to independently develop its Hospital Information System (HIS). After more than a year of effort, the internal inpatient system was launched first. To further break down data "silos" and build a Medical Consortium Cloud Platform, Yueqing Second People's Hospital partnered with Zhuojian Technology to upgrade and enhance its HIS, integrating internet technologies to construct an online-offline integrated Medical Consortium Cloud Platform. Through nine management centers and three shared centers, the hospital gradually achieved integration, whereby the main hospital and its branch hospitals within the medical consortium share a single business system and a unified data center. Business data from different medical institutions are distinguished by campus codes, enabling centralized collection and storage of healthcare service and management data. This framework provides services such as real-time interaction, information sharing, operational collaboration, and comprehensive supervision, thereby building an integrated healthcare delivery system.
As a regional pilot, the Danxi Branch of Yueqing Second People’s Hospital Medical Community broke down barriers first and became the first primary healthcare institution within the medical community to launch the new Hospital Information System (HIS). The efficiency and public benefits brought by the Medical Community Cloud Platform have made local residents tangible beneficiaries. Through the Employee Assistant, family contract doctors receive instant notifications—signaled by a “ding”—regarding their contracted patients’ outpatient visits, hospital admissions, and discharges. To date, the Yueqing Second People’s Hospital Medical Community Cloud Platform has covered all 10 of its branch hospitals.
The Medical Community Cloud Platform, jointly developed by Yueqing Second People's Hospital and Zhuojian Technology, centers on Yueqing Second People's Hospital. Leveraging a cloud-based data architecture and employing intelligent, digital, and internet-enabled solutions, the platform breaks down "information silos" and "operational barriers" between the lead hospital and its member institutions within the medical community. This facilitates interconnectivity of regional public health information, resource sharing, and achieves flattened, homogeneous management of the medical community.
Six Major Medical Consortium Service Application Systems
Launching a New Model of Convenient and Affordable Medical Services
The Medical Community Cloud Platform of Yueqing Second People's Hospital offers six major service application systems, including the integrated medical and preventive care system, resource sharing system, integrated operations system, unified quality control system, public convenience and benefit system, and big data application system.
Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community Mini Program
In terms of public convenience and benefit, the Yueqing Second People’s Hospital Medical Community leverages internet-based technologies to provide an innovative model of full-process health management spanning pre-consultation, during-consultation, and post-consultation phases. Through its Internet Hospital, it transcends the temporal and spatial limitations of traditional medical services, diversifies healthcare delivery, and offers patients borderless, end-to-end closed-loop medical care. By integrating hospital resources based on a unified resource pool, it enables one-stop, intelligent, and precise appointment scheduling, deepens the “At Most One Visit” reform, and improves resource utilization efficiency.
Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community Cloud Platform Introduces Hyper-Converged Infrastructure AppliancesBy implementing a simple, secure, reliable, and high-performance solution, the platform establishes a unified data infrastructure for the medical community. It ensures secure and reliable data channels with visualized data transmission, provides wizard-guided intelligent O&M services from a business perspective, and facilitates big data applications within the medical community. Furthermore, it offers comprehensive security safeguards to meet the requirements of Level 3 Classified Protection of Cybersecurity and the regulatory standards for internet hospitals.
The Medical Community Interactive Integration Platform, built on the cloud platform of Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community, enables the unified construction, application, and sharing of all business systems, including clinical management, pharmaceutical management, medical technology and auxiliary services, public health, and hospital operations. This platform not only facilitates digital management of residents' health records within the region, delivering health management services that span the entire lifecycle of residents, but also provides multi-perspective, multi-level, continuous, and dynamic supervision of the medical community's business and operational activities.
It is worth noting that patients at all member institutions of the medical consortium, whether at branch hospitals or the lead hospital, can leverage a unified system to access services such as remote outpatient consultations, remote diagnostics, two-way referrals, and chronic disease tracking, thereby significantly enhancing convenience and public benefit.
Next, the Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community will further improve its service system, achieve upgrades in medical and service quality, and promote high-quality and efficient development of the Yueqing Second People's Hospital Medical Community.