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The third annual China Smart Medical Insurance Competition has officially started, with organizers providing participating teams in the final round access to anonymized medical insurance data from certain cities across four provincial-level regions in the Yangtze River Delta. This marks the first time such data has been made available to support innovative pharmaceutical research and development efforts.
This year’s event, jointly organized by the National Healthcare Security Administration and the Shanghai government, offers finalists access to the city’s anonymized medical insurance data, select public data unrelated to insurance, and anonymized insurance data from one city each in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces, the organizers announced yesterday.
Participants submit various proposals for harnessing big data in medical insurance, focusing on addressing specific challenges or creating value through their projects. These solutions extend beyond drug R&D, encompassing innovations in insurance services, commercial health insurance products, efficiency improvements in government services, and more.
This competition represents the first initiative by the NHSA to facilitate cross-regional integration of medical insurance data. Deputy Director Huang Huabo explained at a recent press briefing that once the data is anonymized, it will be available for secure deployment and analysis by finalists within a highly controlled and trusted digital environment.
The event aims to actively explore how data from different industries can be leveraged across sectors, including for groundbreaking drug development and new health insurance products and services. The goal is to make medical insurance data a catalyst for broader industry empowerment and to foster new application scenarios through integrated data development, according to Fu Chaoqi, director of the NHSA’s Big Data Center.
He added that this initiative also seeks to establish secure and trustworthy methods for data transfer within the Yangtze River Delta region, encouraging shared development and usage of public data to promote regional cohesion through medical insurance data cooperation.
The digital data space provided by Shanghai’s Pudong New Area for this year’s contest has seen significant expansion compared to previous years. It is now linked to some of the city’s public data resources through local infrastructure, with efforts underway to turn this extensive data into new engines for economic growth and innovation, Vice District Mayor Li Hui said.
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