On February 4, the results of the selected scheme evaluation of Public Health Emergency  Commanding and Decision Making System Solutions’ organized by Health Ministry were announced. After experts’ evaluation and rating, Powerise finally stock out from the preliminarily chosen 10 companies, taking the first place on the basis of total ratings.

Last year’s SARS attacks and spreading betrayed the inconsistent organization and commanding, congested information flow and seriously flawed emergency treatment capacity in the public health system of our country. Instructed by the Central Committee of CCP and State Council, China Health Ministry put forward the Public Health Information Construction Scheme of China to consolidate the construction of the public health system in our country.

As an important part of the construction of the national public health information network, the construction of the Public Health Emergency Commanding Center and Decision Making System is a widely-involved, diversely-needed and very difficult system. To well organize its design and operation, the General Office of China Health Ministry decided to widely collect ‘Public Health Emergency Commanding Center and Decision Making System Solutions’ from the whole country with a view to widening thoughts, making a better use of social resources and technologies and guaranteeing the construction quality of the system.

Powerise, which has been cooperating with the Health Ministry since 2000, began to select and get some extraordinary engineers involved in the system programming immediately after they heard of the news. According to Mr. Li Gang, a supervisor responsible for the health profession, ‘Public Health Emergency Commanding Center and Decision Making System Solutions’, part of the construction of the general public health system, consists of medically life-saving and treatment system, health supervision system, and disease prevention and treatment system . Taking advantage of this chance, Powerise would continue to extend its cooperation with the health profession.

Data show that IT purchases from Chinese medical services will amount to 3.5 billion Yuan RMB in 2004, keeping a speedy boost with a 25 % increase compared with that in 2003. Of the 2004’s investment in IT industry, the funding from the governments in the construction of the public information system has increased at a rather big margin while out of the total funds put in the whole medical field, the money allocated to IT purchases will reach 20 % and this situation will offer many IT factories and companies a vast space to grow.