The three ministries issued the "Action Plan for the Development of the Smart Healthy Elderly Care Industry (2017-2020)"

Notice of the Three Ministries on Printing and Distributing the "Action Plan for the Development of the Smart Healthy Elderly Care Industry (2017-2020)"

Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission on the issuance of 

the "Action Plan for the Development of the Smart Healthy Elderly Care Industry (2017-2020)"

MIIT Lianzi [2017] No. 25To the competent departments of industry and information technology, civil affairs departments (bureaus), and health and family planning commissions of all provinces, 

autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government:n order to implement the requirements of documents such as the "Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Actively Promoting the 'Internet Plus' Initiative (Guo Fa [2015] No. 40), the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Forwarding the Guiding Opinions of the Health and Family Planning Commission andOther Departments on Promoting the Integration of Medical and Health Services with Elderly Care Services" (Guo Ban Fa [2015] No. 84), the "Guiding Opinions of the 

General Office of the State Council on Promoting and Regulating the Development and Application of Health and Medical Big Data" (Guo Ban Fa [2016] No. 47), and the

 "Several Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Fully Liberalizing the Elderly Care Service Market and Improving the Quality of Elderly Care Services"

 (Guo Ban Fa [2016] No. 91), and to accelerate the development of the smart and healthy elderly care industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the

 Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission have formulated the "Action Plan for the Development of the Smart and Healthy 

Elderly Care Industry (2017-2020)". It is hereby issued to you, please implement it carefully.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Ministry of Civil Affairs

National Health and Family Planning Commission

February 6, 2017

Action Plan for the Development of Smart Healthy Elderly Care Industry (2017-2020)

China is currently experiencing rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population aging, with continuous changes in the ecological environment and lifestyle. The supply

 of health and elderly care resources is insufficient, and the application level of information technology is relatively low, making it difficult to meet the people's growing

 demand for health and elderly care. Smart health and elderly care utilizes new-generation information technology products such as the Internet of Things, cloud

 computing, big data, and smart hardware to effectively connect and optimize the allocation of individuals, families, communities, institutions, and health and elderly care

 resources. This promotes the intelligent upgrading of health and elderly care services and enhances the quality and efficiency of such services. To accelerate the

 development of the smart health and elderly care industry, cultivate new industries, new business forms, and new models, promote the growth of information 

consumption, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the information technology industry, this action plan is formulated.

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General Requirements

(I) Overall Approach

Firmly establish and implement the development concepts of innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. Focus on promoting supply-side structural reforms, deeply implement the innovation-driven development strategy, fully leverage the supporting role of information technology in enhancing the quality and efficiency of the smart health and elderly care industry, enrich product supply, innovate service models, adhere to government-enterprise collaboration and open integration, promote the optimal allocation and efficiency improvement of existing medical, health, and elderly care resources, and meet the multi-level and diversified health and elderly care service needs of families and individuals. By leveraging the leading role of new consumption, promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

(II) Development goals

By 2020, a smart health and elderly care industry system covering the entire life cycle will be basically formed, with over 100 smart health and elderly care application 

demonstration bases established, more than 100 industry leaders with exemplary and leading roles cultivated, and a batch of smart health and elderly care service brands 

created. Smart health and elderly care services such as health management and home-based elderly care will be basically popularized, and the quality and efficiency of

 smart health and elderly care services will be significantly improved. The development environment of the smart health and elderly care industry will continue to be 

improved, with 50 standards for smart health and elderly care products and services formulated, and information security protection capabilities greatly enhanced.

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key task

(III) Promote the research and development of key technology products

Breakthrough in core and key technologies. Develop low-power, miniaturized smart sensing technologies suitable for intelligent health and elderly care terminals, indoor 

and outdoor high-precision positioning technologies, high-capacity, miniaturized energy supply technologies, low-power, high-performance microprocessors, and 

lightweight operating systems. Strengthen the design and development of age-friendly health and elderly care terminal devices. Breakthrough in health physiological 

detection and monitoring technologies suitable for health management terminals. Support the integrated design of a high-capacity, multi-interface, multi-interactive 

health management platform. Promote the development of intelligent analysis technologies such as real-time health status analysis and health big data trend analysis.

Enrich the supply of intelligent and healthy elderly care service products. Develop wearable health management devices, portable health monitoring devices, self-service 

health testing devices, intelligent elderly care monitoring devices, household service robots, etc., tailored to different application environments such as households,

 communities, and institutions, to meet diversified and personalized needs for healthy elderly care.

Column 1: Supply Project of Intelligent Healthy Elderly Care Service Products

Health management wearable devices. Emphasis is placed on developing health wristbands, health watches, wearable monitoring devices, etc., which can conduct real-time

 and continuous monitoring of physiological parameters such as blood pressure, blood glucose, blood oxygen, electrocardiogram, and health status information, enabling

 online instant management and early warning.

Portable health monitoring equipment. Emphasis is placed on developing integrated and discrete smart health monitoring application toolkits for use in homes, family

 doctors' offices, and community medical institutions. These tools facilitate real-time monitoring of various physiological indicators by individuals, medical staff, and 

institutions in home and mobile settings, and enable remote health management and other functions through online management systems.

Self-service health testing equipment. Emphasis will be placed on developing self-service intelligent health testing equipment for community institutions and public places,

 which will enable users to complete basic health status testing anytime, anywhere, and independently in different communities and institutions, thereby enhancing their 

ability to manage their own health.

Intelligent elderly care monitoring equipment. Emphasis will be placed on developing intelligent monitoring, rehabilitation, and nursing equipment such as smart 

wheelchairs and monitoring beds for home and institutional elderly care. High-precision indoor and outdoor positioning terminals will be developed to prevent elderly 

dementia patients from getting lost, enabling autonomous and self-help elderly care functions, improving users' abilities to independently care for themselves and

 manage their own affairs, and enhancing the efficiency of social and family elderly care resources.

Home service robots. We will focus on developing intelligent service robots that meet the needs of individuals and families for household tasks, emotional companionship,

 entertainment and leisure, assistance for the disabled, security monitoring, etc., providing a relaxed, pleasant, comfortable, convenient, healthy, and safe modern family 

life, and improving the quality of life for the elderly.

Develop a health and elderly care data management and service system. Leverage information technology tools such as the Internet, the Internet of Things, and big data 

to advance the integration of smart health and elderly care application systems. Connect with medical institutions and elderly care service resources at all levels, establish 

a dynamic monitoring mechanism for elderly health, integrate information resources, and provide smart health and elderly care services for the elderly. Develop a health 

and elderly care data management and intelligent analysis system to achieve intelligent interpretation, analysis, and processing of big data on health and elderly care, 

providing convenient, accurate, and efficient health and elderly care services.

(IV) Promote smart and healthy elderly care services

Cultivate new business forms of smart and healthy elderly care services. Promote enterprises and healthy elderly care institutions to fully utilize smart and healthy elderly 

care products, and innovate and develop healthy elderly care service models such as chronic disease management, home-based healthy elderly care, personalized health 

management, Internet health consultation, life care, and informationization services for elderly care institutions.

Column 2: Smart Healthy Elderly Care Service Promotion Project

Chronic disease management. Emphasis is placed on the development of disease monitoring, archive management, personalized assessment, trend analysis, diagnostic

 and treatment recommendations, abnormality alerts, emergency assistance, rehabilitation services, etc.

Home-based healthy aging. The focus is on developing health check-ups, home environment monitoring, remote care, family care, health intervention, health assessment 

feedback, etc.

Personalized health management. Emphasis is placed on the development of information collection, health planning, health education, health tracking, disease diagnosis, 

risk screening, and health information inquiry.

Internet plus health consultation. Relying on the Internet platform, we develop online consultation, appointment registration, pre-diagnosis guidance, post-diagnosis

 tracking, etc.

Life care. Based on the Internet platform, we provide smart convenience services such as home cooking and meal purchasing assistance, as well as mutual care and

 assistance services for the elderly.

Informatization services for elderly care institutions. The focus is on developing wireless positioning and help-seeking systems, fall monitoring, nighttime monitoring,

 intelligent analysis of elderly behavior, prevention of loss for patients with Alzheimer's disease, intelligent video linkage, access control system linkage, mobile positioning,

 and consumer entertainment for elderly people within the institutions.

Promote innovation in the business model of smart and healthy aging. Give full play to the role of market entities, explore various operational models such as private

 operation with public subsidies, self-construction and self-operation by enterprises, and public construction with private operation, encourage social capital investment, 

promote the operation mechanism where basic and guaranteed services are purchased by the government as a minimum guarantee, and high-end and personalized needs

 are allocated by the market, drive users, terminal enterprises, system integration platforms, healthy aging institutions, third-party service providers, etc. to achieve a 

win-win situation, and form a sustainable, replicable, and mature business model.

(V) Strengthen the construction of public service platforms

Build a technology service platform. Establish a smart health and elderly care innovation center to address the issue of insufficient supply of common technologies in the 

industry and continuously innovate the industrial ecosystem. Gather resources from industry, academia, research, and healthcare to promote the research and development

 of key technologies, core components, and key products. Improve services such as product testing and certification, intellectual property protection, and enhance the 

collaborative innovation and industrialization capabilities of the smart health and elderly care industry.

Build an information sharing service platform. Leverage existing health information, elderly care information, and other information platforms, and based on the regional 

population health information platform, establish a unified, standardized, interconnected, and interoperable health and elderly care information sharing system. Actively 

promote information sharing, in-depth development, and rational utilization among various health and elderly care institutions and service providers, and carry out

 in-depth mining and application of big data in health and elderly care.

Build an innovation incubation platform. Support the construction of entrepreneurial support platforms such as crowd innovation, crowd sourcing, crowd support, and 

crowd funding in the field of smart and healthy aging. Encourage the development of new types of crowd innovation spaces such as maker spaces, entrepreneurial cafes,

 and innovation workshops. Promote the establishment of a number of smart and healthy aging industry ecosystem incubators and accelerators to provide support for 

start-ups in terms of funding, technology, market application, and promotion.

(VI) Establish a standard system for smart and healthy aging

Establish standards for smart health and elderly care equipment products, and set up unified standards for equipment interfaces, data formats, transmission protocols, 

detection and measurement, etc., to facilitate the open sharing of data information among different devices. Prioritize the development of standards for smart detection 

equipment products and data services applicable to individuals, families, and communities, covering five commonly used physiological health indicators: blood pressure, 

blood glucose, blood oxygen, heart rhythm, and electrocardiogram. Improve the process specifications and evaluation index system for smart health and elderly care 

services, and promote the normalization and standardization of smart health and elderly care services. Establish information security standards for smart health and elderly

 care, as well as privacy data management and usage norms.

(VII) Strengthen the construction of a smart and healthy elderly care service network and enhance network security guarantees

Strengthen the construction of broadband network infrastructure, achieve a broadband access capacity of 100Mbps for urban households by 2020, and build a smart 

health and elderly care service network covering households, communities, and institutions. Implement network security protection requirements for the smart health and

 elderly care service platform, and enhance capabilities in anti-attack, anti-virus, and anti-leakage of confidential information. Strengthen the protection of personal

 information in smart health and elderly care, strictly regulate the collection, storage, use, and destruction of users' personal information. Implement data security and user

 personal information protection safety standards, and strengthen data management and security control on the smart health and elderly care service platform.

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Organize and implement

(VIII) Establish an inter-ministerial collaborative working mechanism

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission have established an 

inter-ministerial joint conference system to strengthen overall coordination, closely collaborate and cooperate, form a joint force in work, explore institutional and 

mechanism innovations, jointly study and solve major issues encountered in the implementation process of the action plan, and promote the smooth implementation of 

the action plan. They have formulated annual implementation plans and division of labor schemes to ensure that all tasks and measures of the action plan are implemented

 in place.

(IX) Strengthen organizational implementation

The competent departments of industry and information technology, civil affairs, health and family planning in various regions should attach great importance to the 

development of the smart health and elderly care industry, establish a provincial joint conference system, formulate implementation plans in accordance with local 

conditions, clarify resource allocation among various departments, form synergy, jointly carry out pilot demonstrations, and scientifically organize implementation. The 

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health and Family Planning Commission shall conduct joint supervision in a 

timely manner, assess the progress and effectiveness of implementation in various regions, summarize advanced experiences, and promote them nationwide.

(10) Improve the diversified funding mechanism

Fully leverage the supportive role of fiscal funds such as industrial transformation and upgrading funds, special funds, and local fiscal funds, promote the intensive 

integration and precise allocation of funds across various departments, and increase support for smart and healthy aging. Explore cooperation with state-owned capital 

investment companies to fully leverage the leading and amplifying role of state-owned capital. By initiating the establishment of smart and healthy aging industry 

investment funds, guide social capital to participate in the development of the smart and healthy aging industry, forming a supportive synergy with government funds. 

Actively promote government procurement of smart and healthy aging services, gradually expand the scope of purchased services, and improve service content. Explore 

the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, actively guiding social capital to participate in the promotion of smart and healthy aging services.

(11) Cultivate and regulate the consumer market

Develop a promotion catalogue for smart and healthy elderly care products and services, and promote the priority support of products within the catalogue in the 

construction of relevant government procurement projects such as elderly care institutions and medical institutions. Strengthen user training for consumers, and 

encourage regions with conditions to support families and individuals in purchasing and using smart and healthy elderly care products and services through subsidies and 

other forms.

(XII) Carry out application pilot demonstration construction

In accordance with the approach of enterprise-led, government-supported, and market-driven operations, we will carry out application pilots covering multiple levels of 

regions and various types, cultivate 100 smart health and elderly care demonstration enterprises, build 500 smart health and elderly care demonstration communities, and 

create 100 smart health and elderly care demonstration bases with regional characteristics and industrial linkage. We will guide hospitals, elderly care institutions, 

community service centers, and relevant enterprises and institutions to participate in and support the construction of pilot projects, support enterprises to explore

 promotable and replicable smart health and elderly care service models, and provide high-quality medical and elderly care resource guarantees for smart health and 

elderly care services. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)