Technology has melted the barriers of distance, bringing the doctor's care to patients far away. With the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, telemedicine has been breaking through in recent years in terms of scenario penetration and collaborative office work. As an important complement to smart healthcare, telemedicine has often faced development dilemmas in the past due to poor portability of system equipment, low clarity of scene restoration, and inconvenience in cross-department collaboration. To break through these dilemmas, it is necessary to not only achieve a significant leap from cross-scenario collaboration to full-scenario service in telemedicine but also to redefine the future landscape of telemedicine and smart healthcare.

    On April 8th, the Sichuan Smart Hospital Information Construction Seminar, hosted by the Sichuan Provincial Bioinformatics Society and undertaken by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., was successfully held at the Huawei Chengdu Research Institute. Experts from more than 20 hospitals across the province gathered together to visit the relevant innovation experience centers and deeply discuss the information construction of smart hospitals.

    Currently, multiple factors have driven the innovation of telemedicine. In terms of policy, with the establishment of the national tiered diagnosis and treatment system of "primary care at the grassroots level, two-way referral, emergency and chronic disease treatment, and joint operation of up and down", and the gradual improvement of relevant policies, the development of telemedicine has been provided with fertile ground. In addition, the "Notice of the General Office of the National Development and Reform Commission and the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Organizing the Implementation of the 2020 New Infrastructure Construction Project (Broadband Network and 5G Field)" has also pressed the "acceleration key" for the village-level coverage of telemedicine and the popularization of 5G medical applications.

    In terms of technology, whether it is the wearable technology that users can easily obtain vital data in daily life, or the new generation of ICT technologies such as cloud computing, audio and video communication, and artificial intelligence that bring high-quality diagnosis and treatment experience to medical staff, they have all become a "strong driving force" to make the medical industry smarter and more convenient.

Integrated Super Integrated Design Makes Remote Consultation Easier

    In the continuous exploration of telemedicine and smart healthcare, Huawei has formed a development path for smart healthcare with the "new species" IdeaHub as the "point" and collaborative solutions as the "body". While fully connecting medical talents, resources, data, and research, it can not only build targeted medical collaborative consultation scenarios for daily difficult and complicated diseases but also effectively deal with large-scale emergencies such as the epidemic. So far, Huawei's IdeaHub remote diagnosis and treatment solution has provided strong and mature technical support for patients, hospitals, and the entire medical industry through cloud computing technology, audio and video communication technology, etc., solving the urgent needs.

    As a "black technology" product, Huawei's IdeaHub adopts an integrated super integrated design, integrating projectors, whiteboards, microphones, speakers, video conferencing equipment, conference room PCs, Pads, and TVs into "N in one". With an independent graphics calculation + AI calculation + audio and video codec engine, users can also easily open the meeting mode remotely with one click without an external OPS computer. It can be said that the emergence of Huawei's IdeaHub, especially during the epidemic, its powerful cloud meeting and cloud collaboration functions have provided great convenience for grassroots medical institutions to conduct remote meeting communication. At the same time, for the medical industry, to solve the above problems, telemedicine teaching, remote consultation, etc., must keep pace with the times, which also puts very strict requirements on the accuracy of time and the accuracy of color images.

Full-scenario Medical Collaboration Enhances Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experience and Efficiency

    Huawei IdeaHub provides an entry and carrier for medical remote collaboration, with the support of Huawei Cloud technology, Huawei IdeaHub supports two-way remote collaboration between local and remote ends. Doctors at each end can discuss and interact with case image materials on Huawei IdeaHub, select all, mark, and generate consultation reports with one click, and materials can be archived and traced.