On the functionalities of an information-based management system of community health service in China

To increase work efficiency of administration transaction, we have designed the Information-based management system of CHS. The system includes four subsidiary systems: The administration management handing system, evaluating system, searching system and statistics analytical system. The administration management handling system includes the application system of the CHS station(center), the examine system of the CHS center, the examination and approval system of district public health bureau and the record system of municipal public health bureau. The contents include installation, registering, checking-up, alteration and logging-off. The system of automatic evaluation can compute automated synthetically index numbers of evaluated units and display the best and the worst items according to the evaluation system which are set up in the computer in advance; it could rank the order of units of the same kind according to the synthesized index numbers and the order of the individual items. The searching system included basic data searching, personnel searching, administrations results searching. The system of statistics and analysis can make statistics and analyze the basic circumstance about CHS, by which researchers can accurately master the condition of the CHS resources, and can constitute statistics charts meeting different requests. It could provide basis decision for the administrative departments so as to allot hygiene resources reasonably. By carrying out the system, the compliance management definitely be strengthened so that CHS sector will enter the information age of standardized and automated operation, complying with laws and regulation. CHS can be improved by management.