Thirty years ago the Hospital Authority started developing its in-house electronic medical record system, the Clinical Management System, or CMS. Today this system has evolved into a sophisticated and comprehensive digital health platform, featuring the HA's digital front door, "HA Go", dozens of Smart Hospital and AI products all fully integrated with the core CMS.
HA is now one of the few large healthcare organisations globally which still has this systems development capability. In addition, the collection of 30 years of high-quality structured and standardised data in the CMS for the entire population of Hong Kong means that the HA dataset is perhaps the highest quality large scale healthcare data set in the world today.
NT will highlight key reasons for the HA's success in this venture. He will also discuss how this very strong digital health capability will allow accelerated innovation for the future of digital health in Hong Kong.
