Evaluating the Applications of Health Information Technologies in China During the Past 11 Years: Consecutive Survey Data Analysis.

In more than 10 years, based on this top-down approach, China's medical care industry has accepted government instructions and implemented the unified model planned by administrative intervention. With only about one-fifth of the required funding, and about one-fourth of the required human resources per hospital as compared to the US HITECH project, China's EMR coverage in 2018 exceeded the average level of its US counterparts in 2015 and German counterparts in 2017. This experience deserves further study and analysis by other countries.