It costs much for any hospital to set up a complete platform
combining all aspects such as hardware, software,
management, maintenance, for the existing HIS construction.
Township hospitals in particular, are neither possible nor
necessary to establish a set of independent system, but It bears
the important burden to provide medical services to rural
residents. Even for medium and large hospitals, the
independent construction of HIS is a heavy burden, such
as the construction for Picture Archiving and
Communication System (P ACS). From the short term, P ACS
framework could not save medical costs but increase the
burden of hospital expenditures. Thus the hospitals with not
abundant capital prefer to continue using film and paper
materials to record the clinic information.