医院图书馆是各种信息载体如图书、报刊、杂志、医学情报等的包容者,因此它是医院的信息中心,是任何部门都无法代替的。现在国内外医院管理的新经验、医疗方面的新技术、新成果不断涌现,如果医院图书馆把这些信息都尽可能地收集到,并加以处理、分析,提供给医院的管理者和技术人员,就可以产生一定的甚至是很大的社会效益和经济效益。以医学科研为例,据原卫生部长陈敏章 Hospital library is a kind of information carrier such as books, newspapers, magazines, medical information and other inclusive, so it is the hospital information center, no department can replace. Now the new experience of hospital management at home and abroad, the new medical technologies and new achievements continue to emerge. If the hospital library collects such information as much as possible and processes it, analyzes it and provides it to the hospital’s managers and technicians, Can produce some or even a great social and economic benefits. Take medical research as an example, according to Chen Minzhang, former minister of health