General profile_National Telemedicine Center

The National Telemedicine Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center") was approved by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission Medical Administration and Hospital Administration in 2018 and was built on the basis of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. The center is located on the 21st and 22nd floors of the Outpatient Medical Technology Building of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University and the 3rd floor of the National Engineering Laboratory. It covers an area of 3,400 square meters. It now has a remote emergency command hall, a multidisciplinary comprehensive consultation room, a single-subject consultation room, a remote outpatient room, imaging diagnosis center, ECG diagnosis center, pathological diagnosis center, consultation scheduling center, digital recording and broadcasting center, multimedia video conference room, digital follow-up and intelligent call center, telemedicine active-active data center, etc., and equipped with advanced The digital command vehicle and ambulance of the center ranks first in the country in terms of internal environment, hardware and software equipment, and site scale, laying a solid foundation for the development of telemedicine business .

hardware and software equipment, and site scale, laying a solid foundation for the development of telemedicine business .

Historical evolution

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"International-country-province-city-county-township-village" seven-level linkage telemedicine service system

The center is located in the Central Plains, adhering to the development concept of "based on Henan, serving the whole country, and going to the world", it has built an "international-country-province-city-county-township-village" seven-level linkage, data exchange and video conference dual-driven remote medical service system. By the end of 2020, the system covers 73 tertiary hospitals, 277 secondary hospitals, and 687 first-level hospitals in Henan Province; 65 hospitals in other provinces including Xinjiang, Shanxi, Sichuan, Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Hunan, Hubei, and Fujian are connected to Henan Province. At the same time, it also conducts transnational telemedicine interconnection with some hospitals in Zambia, Africa, and will gradually expand international telemedicine interconnection along the “Belt and Road” Health Silk Road in the future. In Henan, the center relies on the Henan Provincial Telemedicine Center to establish a five-level linkage telemedicine organizational structure of "provincial center-city sub-center-county central station-grass-level workstation- grass -level service point". Each branch relies on local medical institutions to build, And by the Henan Provincial Health Commission uniformly named and coded plaques.

Normalized and large-scale telemedicine business development

The National Telemedicine Center has independently developed and constructed a telemedicine comprehensive service platform that integrates multiple functions such as emergency command, remote consultation, remote specialist diagnosis, remote education and training, data transmission, appointment registration, two-way referral, and digital resource sharing. Carry out normalized and large-scale telemedicine business. At present, the center conducts more than 20,000 remote comprehensive consultations every year, more than 300,000 remote ECG, pathology, imaging and other specialist diagnoses, more than 300 distance education sessions, and 500,000 training personnel. The scale of service is far ahead in China.

Industry influence

In recent years, with the continuous improvement of relevant national policies and the rapid development of information technology, telemedicine in my country has made great progress, and has played an important role in optimizing the allocation of medical resources and promoting the sustainable and healthy development of medical services. The National Telemedicine Center has always occupied the commanding heights of the industry, promoting the development of the telemedicine industry in an all-round way from the formulation of industry standards, group building, survey development, and academic exchanges.