Enabling Health Reform through Regional Health Information Exchange: A Model Study from China

Table 1

Usage of regional health information exchange system of Xinjin County.

	June 2012			March 2014
Systems	Number of users	Total size of data (MB)	Increase per day (MB)	Number of users	Total size of data (MB)	Increase per day (MB)	Number of transactions
Outpatient doctor’s station	652	12,645	17.6	662	27,904	40.3	4582
Inpatient doctor’s station	652	22,694	10.1	675	46,478	43.5	1352
Out/ED billing station	30	9324	11.1	44	18.514	15.4	3458
Inpatient billing station	45	38,797	64.7	48	72,469	82.35	155
Nurse station	766	12,834	18.0	796	30.487	20.5
Regional imaging sharing	62	10 TB	8 GB	67	20 TB	19 GB	272
Regional lab sharing	68	3.65 GB	22.4	69	10.25 GB	52.2	300/36
Regional EKG sharing	59	6.38	0.11	61	102	0.9	39
Regional quality; control system	23	576.2	9.43	28	1088	12	56
Regional public health management		350 GB	10 GB	56	539 GB	52 GB
Rational use of drugs		9130	0.03		12,500	3.5	5634
Electronic health records	Unknown (352,561 records in total)	14,711	8.23	1512	23,815	10.6	Unknown