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develop a Patient Portal to help patients manage their health more proactively. Stage 2 is expected to be completed by end-2022.
As at end-2018, close to 950,000 members of the public and over 1,600 organisations, including all 12 private hospitals, private clinics, elderly homes and welfare groups, had registered in addition to the Hospital Authority and the Department of Health. More than 46,800 accounts had been created for healthcare professionals working under these healthcare providers, comprising about 11,200 doctors, 30,700 nurses, 540 dentists, and 4,400 other healthcare professionals specified under the Electronic Health Record Sharing System Ordinance, to use the system.
Genomic Medicine
In October, the launch of a large-scale genome sequencing project, the Hong Kong Genome Project, was announced in the Policy Address to promote the clinical application of, and innovative scientific research on, genomic medicine.
Health Promotion
Healthy Lifestyle
The Department of Health's Central Health Education Unit formulates and implements strategies and measures to promote healthy eating, regular physical activity and mental wellness. The unit also updates information and health advice on infectious diseases, and produces materials in various languages to raise awareness among ethnic minorities of how to prevent communicable diseases and adopt a healthy lifestyle.
The department works with the Education Bureau to conduct campaigns such as [email protected] and [email protected], which respectively drew the participation of more than 640 kindergartens and child care centres, and over 480 primary schools, including special schools, in the 2017-18 school year. The Joyful@School campaign, another joint collaboration with the Education Bureau, promotes mental well-being among primary and secondary students. The department is also working on a mental health promotion and public education initiative.
The Adolescent Health Programme fosters mental health and healthy use of the internet among 310 participating secondary schools as well as over 1,700 parents, teachers, social workers and other stakeholders.
The department's [email protected] campaign encourages restaurants to provide healthier choices for the community. About 680 restaurants joined the campaign in 2018.
Joyful@Healthy Workplace is carried out jointly by the Department of Health, the Labour Department and the Occupational Safety and Health Council. As at December, the programme had drawn over 1,300 organisations involving more than 390,000 employees.
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