One morning not long ago, the "HITValue Expert Club" WeChat group was "congratulations" and "congratulations" screens.
Here's what happened: Group leader Liu Yu posted two screenshots showing Yu Gang as vice president of the Children's Hospital affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang University Pediatrics), who was previously the director of the hospital's information center.
"The informant has produced another vice president!" Liu Yu sighed. The group rejoiced: I look forward to more medical believers going to leadership positions!
Indeed, as Liu Yu said, it is not uncommon for people to be promoted from the post of director of the information center to the manager of the hospital.
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It is not uncommon for information directors to be promoted to hospital-level managers
The reason why Yu Gang was promoted to vice president is inseparable from his outstanding work achievements.
In recent years, the informatization construction of Zhejiang University pediatrics has achieved remarkable results: in November 2021, it passed the five-level B evaluation, which is the highest level in China; in 2021, it passed the third-level evaluation of hospital wisdom services; in July 2020, it passed the fifth-level evaluation of electronic medical records; in 2019, it passed the fourth-level evaluation of interconnection; and in 2018, it passed the fourth-level evaluation of electronic medical records...
Zhejiang University Pediatrics is basically promoted at a speed of promotion once a year and promotes the construction of informatization, which is unimaginable in many other hospitals. Among them, it is naturally inseparable from the contribution of Yu Gang, the helmsman of information construction. Moreover, his contribution is not limited to the construction of informatization itself.
Yu Gang spoke at the Zhejiang University Pediatric Medicine Replacement Conference at the end of 2021 Picture source: Zhejiang University Pediatric Medicine official website
In July 2021, Yu Gang said in an interview with HIT Expert Network, "Only by building the information department into a discipline department, using its own professional knowledge to serve the clinic, and creating valuable scientific research results can we reflect the scientific research value of the information center and enhance the status of the information center."
This line of thinking coincides with the requirements of hospitals for information centers. Zhejiang University Pediatrics has always attached great importance to scientific research, ranking second in the 2020 China Hospital Science and Technology Quantity (STEM) Ranking, ranking second in the national children's specialized hospitals. Shu Qiang, secretary of the hospital's party committee, once asked Yu Gang: "The information center cannot only do one thing of informatization, but also do scientific research and transformation."
Under the guidance of this concept, Yu Gang actively practiced and achieved remarkable results. He has presided over 1 national key R&D program, 1 national natural science foundation project, 2 projects of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Department, 2 projects of health department, and participated in 4 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects.
In December 2021, the Zhejiang-Finland Joint Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Child Health was selected into the "2021 International Science and Technology Cooperation Carrier Identification List" of the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Department, and Yu Gang served as the head of the Chinese side of the laboratory.
After Zhejiang University Pediatrics was approved by the National Children's and Health Clinical Medical Research Center and the National Regional Children's Medical Center, the hospital selected 4 peak disciplines, 4 advantageous disciplines and 4 cultivation disciplines respectively, of which "Children's Smart Medical Big Data Application" was identified as 1 cultivation discipline, with the information center as the main body.
Yu Gang said: "The information center was selected by the hospital as a cultivation department, which is a pioneering achievement." This kind of strength, most hospital information center directors only have envy.
Zhao Wei created a "Guiyang Model" of regional medical informatization during his tenure as assistant to the mayor of Guiyang City Source: The official website of Fuwai Hospital
Another person who stepped up from the director of the information center to the leadership position of the hospital was Zhao Wei of the Fuwai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (hereinafter referred to as Fuwai Hospital).
The informatization construction of Fuwai Hospital, under the leadership of Zhao Wei, has also achieved excellent results: electronic medical record level 7 (only 4 in the country), interconnection and interconnection of the top four, wisdom service level 4 (the only one in the country)...
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the information center of Fuwai Hospital has strong self-research ability, and many of the hospital's information systems are developed by themselves.
In addition to being responsible for the construction of hospital informatization, before serving as the vice president of Fuwai Hospital, Zhao Wei was also selected by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee to serve as the mayor's assistant in Guiyang City in early 2018, during which he presided over the promotion of regional medical informatization work and successfully created the "Guiyang Model".
The list of hospital managers promoted from the director of the information center also includes: Zhang Dianyong, current president of the Second Affiliated Hospital of the Naval Military Medical University (Changzheng Hospital), Xiu Yan, current secretary of the Party Committee of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Zhu Xiaobo, current vice president of the Second People's Hospital of Dezhou City, and Jiang Lu, current vice president of Dong'a County People's Hospital.
Why can the Information Director be a college manager?
Why can the directors of the above-mentioned information centers be promoted to the level of hospital managers? The author believes that on the one hand, this is related to personal quality and ability, on the other hand, the particularity and importance of information work cannot be ignored.
First, information work is becoming increasingly important. Not to mention the rating related to electronic medical records, smart services, interconnection and other information itself, is a mandatory requirement of health administrative departments; digital transformation, performance appraisal, high-quality development, medical consortium construction, hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, multi-hospital construction and other work, can leave the support of information technology?
Secondly, data has become the asset of the hospital, and the director of the information center may be the most familiar with the hospital's business, management, and business data, to ensure data security and mining data value, the director of the information center has the most grasp of the overall potential of data assets.
Third, as a support department, the information center will deal with all departments of the hospital, from the blood and tears experience of "back the pot" and "scolding", to the current gradual recognition and support of the brother department, relying on not only the technical level, but also the continuous improvement of communication skills.
Finally, the CIOs of many large foreign companies are equivalent to vice presidents, directly responsible to the top decision makers. Domestic hospitals set up CIOs similar to the position of chief accountant and enter the hospital leadership team, which is not without precedent.
In summary, the location is important, there is potential, there will be communication, there is precedent, and it is natural for the director of the information center to be a hospital manager.
What else can be done besides hospital administrators?
On February 9, the People's Liberation Army Daily published an article entitled "Preferential Medical Policies, Where are the Specific Preferential Policies". Gao Yi, director of the Medical Insurance Office of the General Hospital of the Northern Theater, was interviewed by reporters and answered questions for readers.
Previously, he had been an engineer in the hospital's information center, and during the anti-epidemic period, he was also appointed as the director of the information department of Wuhan Taikang Tongji Hospital to participate in the fight against the epidemic. He has been focusing on medical insurance informatization and has gradually grown into a medical insurance expert.
The work of the information center touches all aspects of clinical, management, service and other aspects, and there are many options for career development.
Option one: Head of Data Department
Some hospitals have set up an information/data management department independent of the information center, whose main responsibility is data management and mining. Such as Wang Peng and Yang Lei, who have been reported by the health community.
Wang Peng was the director of the Information Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Army Military Medical University (Southwest Hospital), and in October 2018, he was appointed as the director of the Medical Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Center, and the main responsibilities of the department were data governance and development, promoting the application of big data and artificial intelligence innovative products, and promoting scientific research and innovation in interdisciplinary fields, and produced a series of achievements.
Yang Lei, former director of the Information Center of Liuzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital, who was appointed director of the Information Management Department in 2018, sorted out the 9 tasks of information management, saying: "As information people, our scope of responsibility is expanding. Not only production data, but also management information; not only after the fact, but also in advance planning and process quality control."
Yang Lei summarized the information management work into 9 items
Option two: Head of Hospital Operations
Hospital operations are naturally data-related, and no one is as familiar with data as the director of the Information Center. For example, Lu Huijing, director of the Operation Office of the Second Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, was transferred from the post of director of the Information Center.
Option three: Other departments
In addition to gao Yi mentioned above, there are Zhu Chen, director of the quality management office of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Wu Heng, director of the Party Office of Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, Yu Xuemei, director of the Medical Engineering Department of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Yu Xiaoping, chief physician of the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and so on.
After being transferred to the new post, the changes in the work content have given them new thinking about the information work, which is fed back to the medical information industry through writing articles and lectures, and also allows the industry to examine itself from another perspective, objectively promoting the development of the industry.
How do information people practice self-cultivation?
Of course, the transfer to a new post is related to the importance of information work, but more importantly, the cultivation of the director of the information center himself, how should the information person improve himself?
In the 40th issue of "Connected CIO", Xue Wanguo, former director of the Medical Big Data Research Center of the PLA General Hospital, shared that under the new situation, hospital IT engineers need five technical capabilities such as planning, project implementation, integration, operation and maintenance, and information services, and the corresponding career directions are also five: system analysts, integration engineers, project managers, data analysts and database management (network management, information security) engineers.
How do I get the above competencies? Xue Wanguo believes that it is necessary to develop from IT vertical knowledge to interdisciplinary horizontal knowledge system, and build a knowledge structure of "IT +X", including medical knowledge, hospital management knowledge, medical data statistical analysis knowledge, medical informatics knowledge, and medical trust people should combine practical learning and continuously expand the knowledge system.
Chen Jinxiong proposed a model of medical trust person ability
Also in the "Connecting CIO" program, Chen Jinxiong, vice president of the Medical Informatization Branch of the China Research Hospital Association, said that there are three kinds of development directions for medical believers: compound talents who lead the direction of construction, professional talents who master core technologies, and practical talents who solve specific problems. He believes that in the future, medical information people should pay attention to technology and systems, business and processes, change and innovation, and upgrade from the role of technical support to value creation.
Source: HITValue Expert Club, Health Connect CIO, HIT Expert Network, Fuwai Hospital Official Website, Zhejiang University Pediatric Medicine Official Website, etc
Sources | the health community
Written by | Xiang Haiquan