# Navigating challenges and opportunities: a SWOT analysis of digital management center implementation in county hospitals

**Authors:** Shouzhi Zhou, Hongqing Yin

PMC · DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1767910 · Frontiers in Public Health · 2026-02-09

## TL;DR

This paper uses SWOT analysis to evaluate the implementation of digital management centers in county hospitals and suggests strategies to improve their development and operation.

## Contribution

The paper provides a structured SWOT analysis and policy recommendations for implementing digital management centers in county hospitals.

## Key findings

- Digital management centers can consolidate data and enable real-time monitoring and information sharing.
- The initiative addresses talent shortages and operational challenges while leveraging national health big data opportunities.
- Strategies and improvement measures are proposed to support the practical implementation of these centers.

## Abstract

To comprehensively analyze the internal and external environmental factors influencing the construction of digital management center in county hospitals and to provide reference and basis for the construction and operation of digital management centers in county hospitals.

Employ the SWOT analysis to examine internal and external environmental factors influencing the development of digital management centers in county hospitals and propose policy reform recommendations.

Establishing digital management centers in county hospitals offers the advantage of consolidating dispersed hospital data, enabling unified management, real-time monitoring and information sharing. This initiative not only capitalizes on opportunities arising from the national health big data initiative but also overcomes disadvantages such as talent shortages, operational challenges and information silos, while mitigating threats like lagging hospital management.

Following a comprehensive assessment and analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, corresponding strategies and improvement measures have been formulated to advance the establishment of digital management centers in county hospitals. These initiatives provide theoretical support and policy recommendations for the practical implementation and operation of digital management systems within county hospitals.

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** trauma (MESH:D014947), stroke (MESH:D020521), chest pain (MESH:D002637)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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