Nanjing Children's Hospital

Nanjing Children’s Hospital is an affiliate of Nanjing Medical University. It is a third-grade, Class-A hospital integrating medical treatment, scientific research, teaching, learning, health recovery and health care. The hospital covers all areas of medical treatment for children and has developed many advanced diagnoses and medical technologies and performed some highly challenging surgeries.

“After building the data integration platform, a high degree of sharing, centralized and uniform standardized management of data among electronic medical records, mobile nursing, HIS, LIS and other systems has been achieved, which reduces the complexity of data fetching, increases the speed of data extraction and cuts the cost of data management.”

Qian Lvnan

Chief of Information Section, Nanjing Children’s Hospital

Business Need

Achieve data exchange between heterogeneous systems and improve the hospital’s information sharing and work efficiency.
Provide hospital leadership with comprehensive operational information to achieve improved management.

Improve patients’ electronic treatment data, treatment efficiency and clinical quality.
Provide the Ministry of Health with the clean and standardized report data.

Challenges

Manage the cumbersome development of a tightly coupled interface model as well as all data from heterogeneous systems in an integrated manner which is now impossible.

Eliminate inconsistent data standards and formats which make in-depth data mining and utilization impossible.

Solutions & Results

Achieved uniform centralized data management and a high degree of sharing.
Improved data quality significantly and provided data guarantee for statistical analysis of the business intelligence (BI) platform.