Σco Time | Huawei Cloud Smart Healthcare Solution builds an intelligent epidemic prevention and control system

[51CTO.com original article] Although the COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of the 2020 New Year has forced technology professionals to give up gatherings and reduce face-to-face communication, their desire for learning and communication has never stopped. For this reason, Huawei has specially launched the #Σco时间# series of columns, which use online live broadcasts + interactions to discuss technological change and industry transformation.

At 3 pm on March 6, the focus of this issue of #Σco时间# was "Huawei Cloud Smart Healthcare Solutions, Building an Intelligent Epidemic Prevention and Control System" - Zhang Shaowei, Director of Huawei Cloud Healthcare Industry Solutions, was a guest in the live broadcast room and shared with many netizens how Huawei uses new technologies such as cloud and AI to build an intelligent prevention and control system. At a time when the epidemic situation is severe, Huawei Cloud has joined forces with ecological partners to launch a series of solutions for scenarios such as remote collaboration, Internet hospitals, digital hospitals, intelligent voice follow-up, epidemic big data analysis, medical imaging, and anti-epidemic scientific research. This live broadcast has received great attention from netizens because the topic is closely related to the current hot spots in the fight against the epidemic.

Zhang Shaowei said that the current epidemic situation is still very serious. A large number of non-suspected patients occupy limited medical resources, and designated hospitals are overwhelmed. In addition, the flow of patients leads to cross-infection, and the epidemic prevention command agencies at all levels are unable to control the dynamics of the epidemic, and the epidemic prevention coordination is weak. In the fight against the epidemic, Huawei found that different organizations have different needs during the epidemic. Among them, remote collaboration, Internet hospitals, "Vulcan Mountain" hospitals (temporary hospitals), epidemic monitoring, and medical intelligence are the most common consensus needs in society so far.

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Zhang Shaowei, Director of Healthcare Industry Solutions at Huawei Cloud

Huawei has always been a pioneer in the fight against the epidemic with technology. So how does Huawei Cloud help users in the medical industry build an intelligent epidemic prevention and control system through smart medical solutions? Zhang Shaowei gave a very detailed introduction.

【Remote Collaboration】Make collaboration more efficient than distance

In accordance with national prevention and control requirements, the National Health Commission, emergency command agencies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmaceutical distribution companies have all chosen remote collaboration to solve their frequent daily communication and collaboration issues. Huawei Cloud divides remote collaboration into four categories: office collaboration, emergency collaboration, health testing, and remote visits.

Among them, office collaboration carries the important function of epidemic prevention and control command, allowing the National Health Commission to control the overall situation in times of crisis. Huawei's fully connected intelligent work platform realizes unified scheduling and cross-domain real-time connection. In the field of emergency collaboration, Huawei's mobile video access solution is widely used in emergency treatment and remote consultation: medical experts can access the Huawei multi-screen Zhizhen system in real time, not only for remote consultation but also for remote surgery, saving every second for patients' lives. In addition, Huawei Cloud's remote monitoring rounds have also improved the work efficiency of medical workers. Huawei WeLink's daily health check-in for enterprises also helps enterprise managers to control the epidemic health status of the personnel under their jurisdiction in real time and minimize the risk of infection.

【Internet Hospital】Exploiting the great value of light consultation

The so-called Internet hospital refers to a one-stop Internet medical center that relies on physical hospitals, focuses on follow-up visits and routine consultations, and integrates consultation, prescription, payment, and drug dispensing. Chunyu Doctor and Ping An Good Doctor are platform models in Internet hospitals, while Ningbo Cloud Hospital and Guangdong Provincial Network Hospital are self-built models in Internet hospitals.

Huawei's "Fever Light Consultation" solution for Internet hospitals can help people reduce the number of times they go out and visit the hospital during the epidemic, effectively preventing cross-infection. Fever patients can consult with doctors online at home through the WeChat official account. For patients who need further testing, doctors will prescribe tests and examinations. After paying online, patients can go directly to the laboratory for examination. After seeing the test results, doctors will prescribe medicines for patients and deliver them directly to their homes.

[“Huoshenshan” Hospital] Build a digital hospital and migrate all hospital services to the cloud

When the epidemic was raging, there were many makeshift hospitals like Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital across the country. For such temporary hospitals with epidemic prevention needs, Huawei Cloud suggested to build digital hospitals and migrate all hospital services to the cloud, especially core services. The reason for this suggestion is that cloud computing has greater value: software and hardware can be updated in real time, services can be launched quickly, and deployment is simple, and operation and maintenance management is convenient.

At the Huoshenshan Hospital, Huawei helped the hospital quickly build a low-cost, highly reliable cloud IT architecture based on cloud computing, database, security, and network services, reducing the difficulty of IT construction and operation and maintenance, and reducing IT construction investment. Among them, computing resource pools, storage resource pools, network resource pools, dedicated line/VPN access, security protection and other services all come from Huawei Cloud Basic Services. Since its deployment, it has been highly recognized by the hospital.

[Smart Voice Epidemic Follow-up] Rapid Screening of Susceptible Populations

Huawei Cloud and Yizhi Intelligence provide free intelligent voice follow-up services to government agencies, schools, and enterprises across the country, saving a lot of manpower and time for management departments. For example, the intelligent voice service can check on mobile personnel, asking whether they have returned home and their contact status, check/revisit local residents, or notify specific groups of people on a specific flight or train, and automatically generate reports and statistical results for all consultation content.

In a certain urban area, in order to identify high-risk groups and prevent a second outbreak of the epidemic, Huawei assisted the local prevention and control emergency command center in successfully completing the emergency information collection work. Through 50 concurrent AI outbound call robots, it completed the call investigation of 2,240 key personnel within 99 minutes, identified 372 high-risk personnel, and bought time for its subsequent epidemic prevention and control work deployment.

[Medical Intelligence] Sounds a new clarion call for virus monitoring

Gene sequencing is the process of converting invisible biological information into visible text information by a sequencer, and analyzing and studying the text information by relying on computing, storage, and big data resources and combining bioinformatics algorithms. During this epidemic, the CDC and sequencing companies conduct a large amount of disease screening work every day, and Huawei Cloud provides them with high-performance computing clusters (HPC) and gene container platforms (GCS) services to improve sequencing analysis efficiency and reduce overall costs.

Zhang Shaowei revealed that Huawei Cloud, in collaboration with the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shanghai Pasteur Institute, launched a cloud platform for automated genetic identification of the new coronavirus, providing an efficient service platform for virus identification, high-throughput sequencing, sample collection and processing.

In addition to the above smart medical solutions, Huawei Cloud has also worked with partners to build an epidemic public opinion monitoring system. Through Huawei Cloud's natural semantics precision recognition and entity-level and attribute-level sentiment analysis, it helps national ministries, the National Health Commission, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep abreast of public opinion information. In the auxiliary screening of new coronary pneumonia, Huawei Cloud has also fully utilized the value of AI, connecting Huawei Cloud through the front-end machine to help doctors and researchers screen, quantitatively analyze, and assist in the diagnosis of new coronary pneumonia.

As the whole country unites to fight the epidemic, Huawei Cloud's healthcare epidemic prevention and control solutions have been at the forefront of the fight against the epidemic, and Huawei Cloud's smart healthcare "combination punch" has increased the odds of victory in this virus sniper war. We have reason to believe that when the epidemic is over, the digital transformation process of China's medical industry will be greatly accelerated, and the dividends of Huawei Cloud's smart healthcare will benefit more people.

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