Catalan Ministry of Health delegation showcases Health Information Systems in Beijing

A delegation of the Catalan Ministry of Health has been invited to participate in the "2015 Chinese medical innovation application development forum" organised by the Chinese Ministry of Health on April 23th and 24th.

In the conference, the Catalan delegation composed by representatives of different health care information system units of the Ministry of Health showcased the "Catalan Shared Health Record" (HC3: Història Clinica Compartida de Catalunya); the citizen "Personal Health Information Website" (LMS: La Meva Salut) and the Adjusted Morbidity Groups (GMA: Groups de Morbiditat Ajustats), an stratification tool that allows government level planning of Health Care demand according to patient's risk stratification.

The meeting have received support from   "悠远水滴网络科技有限公司" (You Yuan Shui Di Network Technology Co., Ltd.), the partner of Linkcare in China who is currently delivering Continued Medical Education to 1.3 milion Chinese Village Doctors in collaboration with the Chinese Ministry of Health.

Mr. David Monterde (Head of statistics of the Catalan Institut of Health -ICS-, the public health care provider in Catalonia), Dra. Yanjie Gao (Director of Health Statistics and Information Systems of the Chinese Ministry of Health), Oscar Solans (Head of the Catalonian Shared Electronic Health Record at TICSalut) and Jose Manuel Sanchez (Director of Linkcare)

General view of the "2015 Chinese medical innovation application development forum"

Dra. Yanjie Gao during the conference opening ceremony speech

Linkcare's director Jose Manuel Sanchez during the presentation

After confirming the mutual interest for a further collaboration, the Chinese Ministry of Health and the Catalan Ministry of Health have agreed to continue conversations to discuss a potential technological exchange agreement.

Linkcare is an spin of of Barcelona's Clinic Hospital delivering a Clinical Shared Knowledge Platform connection patients, caregivers, practitioners, community primary care centres, specialists, researchers and tertiary hospitals.

Linkcare showcases Chinese Continued Education Program at Mobile World Congress

Linkcare Health Services, in collaboration with You Yuan Shui Di Network Technology Co., Ltd. (悠远水滴网络科技有限公司) presented the "Village Doctors Digital Framework" project during the ECHAlliance's "2nd Health & Wellness" conference of the Barcelona's Mobile World Congress 2015.

Ms. Zhiai Liu, Linkcare's associate in London presenting the 

Village Doctors Digital Health Framework

The Village Doctors Digital Framework project delivers a continued medical education (CME) program to 1.3 million Chinese Village Doctors following an agreement with "China International Exchange and Promotion Association for Medical and Health Care" a unit belonging to the Chinese Ministry of Health.

At the right,  image of the main menu of the Village Doctors Digital Framework. The education program runs over the WeChat mobile social platform.

The continued medical education program includes medical topics review and case studies. By following the training exercise, village doctors earn educational credits to comply with Chinese Government requirements on doctor's continued education.

The app includes information and updates on the Chinese Government's Health Care reform, and a marketplace to obtain information on drugs and medical devices.

Doctors can also use the platform post orders on medical equipment.

The full program includes services to improve health care delivery to village citizens and to improve communication between doctors and citizens though e-vists.

Related links: Linkcare will support 1.3 million Chinese Village Doctors Continued Medical Education

Linkcare will support 1.3 million Chinese Village Doctors continued medical education

Linkcare and 360med.so had agreed to collaborate together to deploy a mobile learning platform to support the China's Medical Doctor Association project of continued education. The learning platform, based on WeChat social network, will be of mandatory use for continuous professional education of 1,370,000 rural doctors around the country, serving a total population of 780 million citizens.

The project has been set up to sustain the legislation ruled on March 2013 by the Ministry of Health of China to improve China’s Rural Health care system. Once fully deployed, the continuous education program will become the world's largest one of its kind ever.

360med.so

Founded in Beijing in 2010 by young entrepreneurs Zi Jun, health marketing specialist, and Wang Wei, medicine graduate, 360med has quickly become China's leading company in digital health communication. Their Weibo page has 1 million followers, most of them doctors, and their customers include most of the transnational pharmaceutical companies doing business in China.

Linkcare Health Services

Founded in 2010 as a spin off of Barcelona’s Clinic Hospital, Linkcare is specialised in Clinical Knowledge Sharing and Integrated Care for Health Care Professionals. The company was promoted by pulmonologist Dr. Josep Roca with his team: Albert Alonso, Carme Hernandez and Felip Burgos, to bring to market the international research made during the past decade by IDIBAPS. In 2012 the start up received an investment from Tanaka Consulting. Right now the company is closing its first financing round under the leadership of it’s president Jose Sanchez and it’s CEO Dr. Jim Roldan, an entrepreneur and business angel specialised in international high tech venture development.

The village doctors project has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project IDENSSA (INNPACTO program grant number IPT-2011-1333-900000)