Shulan Healthcare is a comprehensive technology-driven medical group integrating healthcare services, medical research, nursing education, and life sciences. Since its inception, Shulan has persistently built smart hospitals, deeply applying advanced information technologies like cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. This enables the construction of a fully intelligent, precise health service process and management system covering pre-hospital, in-hospital, and post-hospital care.
Shulan's healthcare experience has garnered high praise from patients and their families, largely attributable to its integrated "blockchain + healthcare" application initiative.This integration has transformed Shulan Medical into a more digitally-enabled, internet-connected, and intelligent modern hospital. It has significantly enhanced communication between patients, medical staff, institutions, and equipment, substantially improved overall operational quality, and innovated the pre-, intra-, and post-treatment service experience models. Shulan Medical has thus become the first medical group in China to complete hospital-wide blockchain infrastructure deployment.
Innovating New Models for Clinical Research
Shulan Healthcare has consistently adhered to the National Health Commission's requirements for advancing healthcare informatization. Guided by blockchain technology's principles of privacy protection and information security, it encourages its affiliated hospitals to evolve into research-oriented institutions. This involves establishing a "Blockchain + Multi-Center" collaborative research platform and model.
The establishment of this collaborative platform effectively enables secure data sharing and utilization across affiliated hospitals while safeguarding clinical data security and individual privacy. Operational protocols aligned with practical needs and hospital research activities have been implemented. Complying with national data security and privacy regulations, the platform facilitates multi-party co-construction, interoperability, and shared access to clinical data. This enables multiple research teams and clinical medical structures to connect online for multi-party exchanges, collaboration, and high-quality research discussions.A fair, transparent, and equitable contribution system has been established for medical data, addressing issues such as recognition for data-contributing institutions/individuals, research units' achievements, and related economic accounting.
Factual outcomes demonstrate that Shulan Healthcare's model is both innovative and viable.Research projects conducted through the collaborative platform, such as "Analysis of Virological Response in ETV-Naive Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Using Highly Sensitive HBV DNA Detection" and "Application Research of a Diagnostic and Treatment Decision Support System for Li's Artificial Liver in Patients with Liver Failure and Liver Transplant-Related Liver Failure," have garnered attention, discussion, and recognition within relevant domestic fields. This pioneers a new era in domestic medical research where scientific achievements are credible, traceable, and reproducible.
Innovating New Workflows for Medical Consortiums
Shulan Healthcare's research collaboration platform model extends beyond the group's internal operations. It pioneers the use of blockchain technology to achieve trustworthy mutual recognition of laboratory and imaging results among medical consortium institutions. This fully embodies Zhejiang Province's medical reform principles of "dual-sink, dual-enhancement" and medical consortiums, while advancing the development of the "Connecting Care Action (CCA)".
Within this collaborative research platform model, the blockchain-based medical consortium information platform enables a unified identity authentication system,and establishes robust medical record sharing authorization mechanisms. This effectively addresses challenges in efficient collaboration and secure medical data circulation within healthcare consortium applications—such as two-way referrals, regional imaging, telemedicine, and medical record sharing. It ensures the accuracy and timeliness of patient data sharing, significantly enhances operational standardization and feasibility, and accelerates the efficiency of two-way referrals, remote consultations, and imaging diagnostics.
Establishing a robust firewall for data security and privacy
Leveraging blockchain technology, Shulan Healthcare's affiliated hospitals have implemented a comprehensive data security and privacy protection system, with appropriate access permissions configured for users from non-affiliated institutions.Hospitals can configure user access schedules based on actual circumstances and instantly terminate data access channels to safeguard security in prohibited situations. Furthermore, the system has successfully developed dynamic data de-identification capabilities, erecting a robust and reliable protective barrier for patient privacy.
The system also features electronic medical records and critical medical documentation functionalities, clearly defining data responsibility and ensuring authenticity and trustworthiness.Simultaneously, the system has achieved real-time integration with the Hangzhou Internet Court Judicial Evidence Center and the Hangzhou Internet Notary Office. It provides notarization services for medical documents, ensuring all stages—from creation and storage to transmission and evidence collection—remain unquestionable. This effectively safeguards the authenticity and security of core electronic evidence.