Construction of the national big data platform for medical and healthcare management

Abstract

In the field of medicine and healthcare, giant medical and healthcare information is created by medical institutions, medical information platforms, digital medical equipments, intelligent health electronic products, wearable personal health equipment, and other health-related information platforms. The sum of these information forms the medical and healthcare big data. The development and application of this big data not only can improve the medical and health system, but also can promote the development of health industry, which has realistic and long-term strategic significance to national economic development. In this paper, the basic characteristics of medical and healthcare big data were introduced, and the problems and challenges in the application of this big data in China were analyzed. In order to improve the level of informatization and management efficiency of medical and healthcare management in China, a national medical and healthcare big data platform was proposed, which can integrate omni-directional and full-cycle health-related information of institutions and individuals in China. In addtion, the construction mode, operation mode, data source and platform function of this platform were introduced. Key words: Medical and healthcare big data; Medical and health management; Big data applications; Big data function