Haikou People's Hospital is a Class III Grade A comprehensive hospital integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, prevention, healthcare, and rehabilitation. It was accredited as a Class III Grade A hospital in 1997, became an affiliated hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University in 2003, and was upgraded to the Haikou Clinical College of Xiangya School of Medicine in 2020.
In the 2022 National Performance Assessment of Public Tertiary Hospitals, Haikou People’s Hospital ranked 228th nationwide among comprehensive hospitals and 2nd in Hainan Province, achieving an A-grade rating.
The hospital hosts multiple national and provincial clinical key specialties, research centers, and innovation platforms, including a National Chest Pain Center, Advanced Stroke Center, and FDA-inspected Phase I Clinical Research Unit, and serves as a critical regional hub for emergency care and complex disease treatment.
Time Accuracy as a Critical Medical Safety Factor
As a high-volume tertiary hospital with over 5,000 outpatient visits per day, Haikou People’s Hospital operates in a time-critical environment where even minor clock discrepancies can lead to medication errors, surgical delays, or inconsistent medical records.
Prior to the upgrade, the hospital faced several challenges:
Fragmented clock systems: Wall clocks in lobbies, electronic clocks in wards, and surgical timers came from different manufacturers, with time deviations of up to 3 minutes.
High manual calibration workload: Nursing staff were required to check and adjust more than 200 clocks daily, resulting in high labor costs and frequent omissions.
Disconnected system timelines: HIS, PACS imaging systems, and operating room teaching systems operated on different time bases, affecting cross-department collaboration and data traceability.
Recognizing time synchronization as a core element of medical quality control, the hospital initiated a comprehensive clock system upgrade.
BeiDou/GPS Satellite Clock System – Full-Hospital Deployment
Shutai delivered a medical-grade satellite-synchronized clock system, covering 86 critical zones including outpatient halls, inpatient wards, operating rooms, emergency corridors, pharmacies, and infusion areas. The system was deeply integrated with the hospital’s information infrastructure.
Dual-source BeiDou/GPS satellite synchronization, directly linked to the national time reference.
Hospital-wide clock deviation controlled within ≤0.1 seconds, achieving aerospace-grade synchronization accuracy.
Operating Rooms: Clocks synchronized with anesthesia machines and patient monitors, ensuring a unified surgical timeline and accurate operative records.
Pharmacy & Infusion Rooms: Digital displays automatically tag medication preparation and administration times, reducing manual recording errors.
Emergency Department: Corridor clocks integrated with “Golden Rescue Countdown” displays to reinforce time awareness during critical resuscitation windows.
Seamless integration with the hospital’s HIS system, enabling automatic calibration of timestamps for medical records, diagnostic reports, and imaging data.
Centralized remote management supporting batch time synchronization, real-time status monitoring, and automatic fault alarms.
Time Accuracy Incorporated into Medical Quality Control
Enhanced Medical Safety:
Patient complaints related to medication time discrepancies decreased by 92%.
Postoperative medical record timestamp consistency reached 100% compliance.
Improved Emergency Response Efficiency:
Average time from patient arrival to treatment in the Emergency Department was reduced by 8 minutes.
Clock synchronization rate became a department-level KPI in resuscitation areas.
Optimized Patient Experience:
Waiting-area clocks synchronized with the queuing system reduced queue-related disputes by 70%.
Overall patient satisfaction score increased to 98.3.
“Time is life. Now, every clock in our hospital beats in perfect unison—like a heartbeat.”
“Shutai’s system not only solved our long-standing clock management issues but also transformed medical quality control from experience-based judgment to data-driven governance. It has laid a solid ‘time foundation’ for the construction of a smart hospital.”
Shutai Electronics is a professional provider of satellite-based time synchronization solutions, with more than 14 years of experience serving hospitals, schools, transportation systems, government agencies, and critical infrastructure. Its products support BeiDou/GPS synchronization, NTP networking, and intelligent management platforms, delivering reliable and precise time standards for mission-critical environments.
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