From service to infectious disease prevention and treatment, Tencent joined hands with the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital to explore a new model of digital medicine

In the afternoon of September 22, Shenzhen National Clinical Medical Research Center for infectious diseases (hereinafter referred to as "National Research Center"), Shenzhen Third People's Hospital (hereinafter referred to as "Shenzhen Third People's Hospital") and Tencent officially reached strategic cooperation. Liu Lei, Director of National infectious diseases Clinical Medical Research Center and Secretary of the Party Committee of Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Lu Hongzhou, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of National infectious diseases Clinical Medical Research Center and Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Lu Shuihua, Deputy Director of National infectious diseases Clinical Medical Research Center, Zhang Shuxiang, Vice President of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group, Zhang Guodong, general manager of Tencent Smart Medical, and other guests jointly participated in the signing of the agreement. In the future, all parties will work together to carry out close cooperation in medical digital transformation, intelligent application development and other aspects, and comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of medical digital of the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital.

As the first and only national clinical medical research center in Shenzhen so far, the National Research Center was recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Health Commission, the Military Commission Logistics Support Department and the State Food and Drug Administration in May 2019. Guided by the national key needs for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis, the National Research Center plays a leading role in the research field of infectious diseases and carries out cutting-edge medical research. Shenzhen Third Hospital is a modern tertiary A-level research hospital with "strong specialty and comprehensive". At present, it has been built into a large-scale, advanced equipment and fully functional infectious diseases diagnosis, treatment and research center in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao, Pearl River Delta, Dongguan, Huizhou and other Pearl River Delta regions. It is mainly responsible for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and major epidemics in Shenzhen and surrounding areas and carries out comprehensive medical services.
As one of the largest Internet integrated service providers in China, Tencent is committed to integrating the digital capabilities of internal and ecological parties, enabling the digital transformation of all walks of life, and helping the government, hospitals, and industries to implement the "healthy China" strategy. On the spot, Zhang Shuxiang said that Tencent would use its AI, big data, cloud computing and other technologies and service capabilities to become the "digital assistant" of the National Research Center and the Shenzhen Third Academy, helping to build "smart hospitals", medical research digitization and other infrastructure, while exploring a new "medical digitization" upgrade model covering "services" and "scientific research".
Consolidate the new infrastructure of "medical service"
In January 2022, 21 departments including the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "Fourteenth Five Year" Public Service Plan, proposing to promote the innovative application of new technologies, encourage and support the development of new business types and models such as smart medicine and smart elderly care. Promote the deep integration and development of public services and the Internet industry, and explore the application of "blockchain+". Accelerate the construction of information accessibility. This puts forward higher transformation requirements for the informatization construction of hospital medical institutions. In the future, with the help of Tencent's strong technical capabilities, the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital will upgrade their information services from top-level planning to basic services, so as to improve medical services, hospital management and other functions.
At the planning level, relying on Tencent's capabilities in the digital and information fields, through the construction and connection of smart platforms from smart hospitals and scientific research platforms to big data centers, network security, Internet hospitals and other smart platforms, we will improve the top-level design of hospital information development for the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital.
At the basic service level, we will take business needs as the guide, patients as the center, medical personnel as the main body, and information security as the guarantee, comprehensively improve the construction level of the information system of the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital, improve the integrated information platform, create an online and offline, internal and external integrated service platform, and comprehensively build the hospital information security protection system, The hospital information system design architecture of "rule encapsulation, core isomorphism, online and offline, integration inside and outside the hospital, safe and reliable" was reshaped, comprehensively helping the National Research Center and Shenzhen Third Hospital to achieve the transformation and upgrading of medical digitalization, reducing costs and increasing efficiency for the hospital, and enabling citizens to enjoy more accessible medical services.
Create a new benchmark for "medical research"
During the COVID-19, as one of the key isolation sites of COVID-19 in Guangdong Province, the Third Hospital of Shenzhen not only undertook the treatment, prevention and control of COVID-19's severe cases in Shenzhen, but also undertook the isolation and treatment of patients in Dongguan, Huizhou and other surrounding cities, playing a vital role in the prevention and control of the epidemic. The National Research Center is a strong scientific research support behind the epidemic prevention and control, and has been shouldering the task of launching scientific research to tackle the epidemic in a timely manner, as well as systematic research related to COVID-19, such as isolation, cultivation, identification, antibody research, etc. of COVID-19.
At the same time of the sudden and rapid mutation of COVID-19, the global "monkeypox" and unexplained hepatitis continue to attack, which puts forward higher speed and efficiency requirements for the clinical research and treatment application system of infectious diseases. Tencent has also become a "technology accelerator" for scientific research in medicine, especially in epidemiology related fields.
In terms of basic research, with Tencent's scientific and technological advantages and service advantages in the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, etc., all parties will jointly build a medical research basic service platform that is integrated, interoperable, flexible, scalable, and secure, explore multidisciplinary consultation and intelligent voice technology applications in a variety of medical and health scenarios, carry out scientific research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence assisted screening and diagnosis, and provide cutting-edge medical research Promote the collaborative development of medical research enterprises and provide support in information, data analysis, etc.
In terms of infectious disease research, all parties will use Tencent blockchain, knowledge map, big data, artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to explore the establishment of a professional medical big data center for major epidemics, knowledge map of infectious diseases, and carry out scientific cooperation in artificial medical image recognition, pathological typing and other aspects.
In the future, the National Research Center, Shenzhen Academy and Tencent will work together to create a new model of "front and rear research" from hospital informatization to medical research for China's medical service system. With technology, medical, health and public health can be more efficient in joint defense and linkage, build a more effective and lower cost protective wall for Chinese health, and help achieve the strategic goal of "healthy China" more quickly.