Health Digital Divide in the Era of Precision Healthcare: Taking Yunnan Province as an Example

摘要

With healthcare coming into the era of Precision Healthcare, it will facilitate the development of health informatics from information processing, integration, analysis, application and other uses. If we ignore the e-health development of developing areas, it will bring a health digital divide. This study takes Yunnan province as an example, and analyzes the problems of e-health development in a developing area, hoping to get more attention from researchers and regulators. Yunnan province is located in the southwest of China. The mountain area is about 94% of the total area. Due to economic, geographical conditions and other factors, information infrastructure, information technology application, information service capacity in Yunnan has lagged behind developed areas. In 2015, the Informatization Development Index of Yunnan was just 59.09, lower than the national average level (72.45), ranked 27th in 31 provinces [1]. This study analyzed problems of e-health development in Yunnan in the era of precision healthcare.