Objective To investigate the drivers,stakeholders,core tasks,and differentiated development models of digital transformation in Chinese hospitals,develop a hospital digital transformation model,and propose advancement pathways.Methods Leveraging ROCCIPI theory,socio-technical systems theory,and social network theory,a multiple case study approach was employed to analyze four representative Chinese hospitals,examining the driving factors,social network relationship,and core tasks of digital transformation.Results Hospital digital transformation is a complex process driven by regulations,opportunities,and capabilities,requiring efficient collaboration among stakeholders focused on patient services,clinical operations,hospital management,and security.It identified three development models-ecology-oriented,regional integration,and grassroots enhancement—based on the distinct characteristics of the hospitals.A theoretical model for digital transformation in four Chinese hospitals was developed,along with proposed pathways and strategies.Conclusion It presents a digital transformation model and advancement pathways for hospitals through multiple case analyses,addressing the limited perspectives of existing research and providing a reference for practice.

Objective To investigate the drivers,stakeholders,core tasks,and differentiated development models of digital transformation in Chinese hospitals,develop a hospital digital transformation model,and propose advancement pathways.Methods Leveraging ROCCIPI theory,socio-technical systems theory,and social network theory,a multiple case study approach was employed to analyze four representative Chinese hospitals,examining the driving factors,social network relationship,and core tasks of digital transformation.Results Hospital digital transformation is a complex process driven by regulations,opportunities,and capabilities,requiring efficient collaboration among stakeholders focused on patient services,clinical operations,hospital management,and security.It identified three development models-ecology-oriented,regional integration,and grassroots enhancement—based on the distinct characteristics of the hospitals.A theoretical model for digital transformation in four Chinese hospitals was developed,along with proposed pathways and strategies.Conclusion It presents a digital transformation model and advancement pathways for hospitals through multiple case analyses,addressing the limited perspectives of existing research and providing a reference for practice.

Objective To analyze the impact of the basic medical insurance outpatient mutual aid policy on the utilization of medical services.Methods Data indicators related to the utilization of medical services from a tertiary hospital in Wuhan,Hubei Province,from January 2022 to December 2023 were collected.Interrupted time series analysis was used to examine the changing trends of outpatient visits,hospitalizations,and average cost per outpatient visit before and after the implementation of the outpatient mutual aid policy.The Granger causality test and vector autoregressive model were also used to analyze the association between outpatient and inpatient services.Results The outpatient mutual aid policy significantly increased the number of outpatient visits,hospitalizations,and day surgeries in the sample medical institutions(P＜0.05),but had limited impact on the average cost per outpatient visit and hospitalization.Conclusion Outpatient mutual aid can effectively promote the utilization of outpatient services,but attention needs to be paid to potential moral hazard issues and strengthen the supervision of medical insurance funds.

Objective To analyze the impact of the basic medical insurance outpatient mutual aid policy on the utilization of medical services.Methods Data indicators related to the utilization of medical services from a tertiary hospital in Wuhan,Hubei Province,from January 2022 to December 2023 were collected.Interrupted time series analysis was used to examine the changing trends of outpatient visits,hospitalizations,and average cost per outpatient visit before and after the implementation of the outpatient mutual aid policy.The Granger causality test and vector autoregressive model were also used to analyze the association between outpatient and inpatient services.Results The outpatient mutual aid policy significantly increased the number of outpatient visits,hospitalizations,and day surgeries in the sample medical institutions(P＜0.05),but had limited impact on the average cost per outpatient visit and hospitalization.Conclusion Outpatient mutual aid can effectively promote the utilization of outpatient services,but attention needs to be paid to potential moral hazard issues and strengthen the supervision of medical insurance funds.

To solve the problems such as decentralized management of transportation needs and personnel, a tertiary hospital launched an intelligent scheduling management information system for " one-stop" transportation service in March 2022, which included the business layer, data layer, and control layer. The system used graph neural network algorithm to train multi feature transportation service data and established an artificial intelligence model for transportation service scheduling, which was used to assist the hospital transportation command center in intelligent scheduling, achieving unified application, task scheduling, process control, and personnel assessment of hospital transportation services.The coverage of transportation services had increased from 188 departments before the system online (March 2021 to February 2022) to 268 departments after the system online (March 2022 to February 2023), as well as the service types and the per capita efficiency coefficient of transportation personnel had increased from 36 categories and 4 086.53 orders/person to 52 categories and 5 839.83 orders/person, respectively. This system met the growing demand for hospital transportation services, improved the level of transportation scheduling management and user satisfaction, which could provide references for other hospitals to promote intelligent management of transportation services.

General hospitals need Internet hospital information platform for supporting Internet medical services. For comprehensive coordination of the hospital medical service in both online and offline manner, and homogeneity of medical quality management, the authors′ hospital build an online and offline integrated Internet hospital cloud platform. The platform provides system tools for patients, doctors, medical auxiliary departments, financial department and management department. It also connects such third-party service platforms as logistics distribution. The establishment of the integrated Internet hospital cloud platform has expanded the access for patients to see doctors, optimized the diagnosis and treatment methods of doctors, realized the intercommunication of online and offline medical services, completed the unified quality control of online and offline medical services of various departments, and improved the outpatient service capacity and overall operation efficiency of the hospital.

Venous thromboembolism ( VTE) is characteristic of high incidence and fatality rate, forming a severe challenge for medical quality management by hospitals and urgently calling for a long-term management mechanism of VTE prevention and treatment. To tackle this problem, the hospital has built a VTE-oriented clinical decision support system, with optimized information platform for the control. The system features automatic scoring of Caprini evaluation model and suggestion of VTE control measures, green ultrasonography channel for VTE high risk patients, and a refined evaluation system. The establishment of an IT control information system has improved VTE awareness and diagnosis level of clinicians. This system can keep track of the risk of VTE occurrence dynamically, significantly improving the number of diagnosed cases and treatment rate, effectively reducing inpatients′ VTE incidence and mortality, and improving quality of care in the end.

Control of the qualifications and behaviors of medical practitioners in branches of a hospital group has become imperative to guarantee medical quality and safety.We have explored a development program of the information platform to meet the needs of unified authorization and closed-loop management of hospital groups,constructed a medical qualifications authorization management and control platform based on private clouds,established a specialized medical qualifications and authorization model,standardized the approval process,and reduced the approval time.At the same time,we work with a human resources management platform,to develop qualifications assessment tools for supervision,for the purposes of dynamic renewal and withdrawal of medical qualifications.We have set up a centralized medical behavior authority database and an authority verification interface,selected key business steps,and readapted the business system for authority verification.These measures can effectively control practitioners' medical behavior and ensure medical safety.

The paper discussed the information platform construction plan of branches Tongji Hospital Group platform, which is designed to achieve homogeneous healthcare and integrated management mode. An information system based on private cloud has achieved a unified service center for patient resources, a clinical sharing service center and an operation sharing service center, for integrated hospital operation and management. Core business systems are integrated and integrated platform has been built, while unified management of public resources and system users′ authorized control have been realized. As a result, the management and control of several hospital campuses have been unified, which can minimize financial risk, reduce human error, improve medical quality and reduce operation costs.

The paper introduces American health informatization talents cultivation scheme, combining the current situation and ex-isting problems of medical information management talents cultivation in China, it proposes medical information management undergradu-ate talents cultivation strategies under the strategic background of population health informatization from three perspectives: curriculum system, teaching staff and teaching mode.