Shijiazhuang City, The New Rural Cooperative Municipal Information Systems Design And Implementation

Having operated for several years, the new rural cooperative medical care system is relatively mature in itself. At the same time, information management has also been gradually applied to the new rural cooperative management. However with the deepening of the work, a lot of problems have exposed within the systems, i.e. farmers hospitalized outside their rural counties cannot be reimbursed in time, relevant information cannot be accessed easily through the new information system, and municipal management is unable to supervise the designated medical institutions through the system via traditional methods of statistics analysis.In view of these situations, the present paper proposes the idea of establishing a new platform of urban and rural cooperation, which provides daily reimbursement service of medical claims, management and maintenance of general medical processes and statistical analysis of the new rural cooperative data. Through the municipal medical service administrative center and the county level system's coordination, it thus resolves the present scenario of each level having their own ways with the existing medical system and accomplishes the interactive process of reimbursment upon patients'being discharged from the hospital. Technical aspect of the system concerns JAVA and DELPHI as the development language, Oracle 10 g as the database with the system structured on the combination of C / S / S and B / S / S, the free version of Redhat Jboss as the media on the operating system of WindowServer. It will enable the real-time information exchange and data update with each country. Cost efficiency is the key feature of the hardware operation by fully tapping the existing resources at the same time. In system design, priority goes to the improvement and optimization of the existing systems at differnent levels in accordance with the new rural development plan. Aiming at the primary operation process of the municipal platform, the following functions have been designed: management of municipal designated hopitals, medical record sharing, rural and urban data integration, as well as online information service. Methods concerning system maintenance are also proposed through integration of rural and urban information management.Establishment of such a new rural cooperative medical system in Shijiazhuang on the one hand benefits the farmers who join the medical care system by improving efficeincy and also makes policies and work concerned more transparent on the other hand. It faciliatates statistics analysis by making it more efficient and accurate, which in turn improves the new rural cooperative medical system and provides more relevent information for poilcy-makers.