On December 9, the HUAWEI CLOUD Digital Health Innovation Summit was held in Dongguan, Guangdong. The forum gathered experts and scholars in the medical field, medical enterprises, hospitals and other representatives of industry, academia, research and medical institutions to discuss the development prospects of digital health with the support of big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies around the theme of "Health Inclusive, Digital Intelligence Together". HUAWEI CLOUD showcased its AI technology solutions and innovative practices in the healthcare field, including the HUAWEI CLOUD Healthcare Solution based on the Pangu model, as well as practical cases with enterprise partners such as Runda Medical and Tasly to jointly promote the high-quality development of the healthcare industry.
In her opening remarks, Shi Jilin, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Global Marketing and Sales Service, said that the power of AI is changing the status quo of all walks of life and bringing opportunities for Chinese enterprises to overtake in corners. HUAWEI CLOUD has always adhered to AI for Industries, hoping to use AI to help all walks of life achieve transcendent development. She also pointed out that she hopes that through the platform built by this forum, AI will enter the digital health industry, and enterprises in various medical fields will also be able to gain more development with the blessing of innovative technology. At the same time, she also hopes that HUAWEI CLOUD will become an ecosystem platform that connects enterprises in different industry chains in the healthcare industry, and builds a stage for enterprise partners to communicate, share, and innovate rapidly, so as to work together to usher in the new era of digital health.
Shi Jilin, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service of HUAWEI CLOUD
Academicians talk about the future of medicine: the accelerated integration of AI and the medical industry is the trend of the times
With the integration of the two strategies of "Digital China" and "Healthy China", the significance of "digital health" at the intersection of the two strategies has become increasingly prominent. In this context, digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, especially the large-scale model technology that has emerged in recent years, are accelerating the innovation and integration with the medical industry.
At the forum, Chen Runsheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared the theme of "Biomedical Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Model". He believes that the classification of the philosophy of science in the development of biomedicine is just consistent with the classification of AI deep learning Xi, which determines that from the perspective of scientific logic, using AI and large models to solve biomedical big data problems has become the most scientific and effective tool.
Xu Tao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also said that at present, scientific research has entered a new data-driven paradigm, generating AI models through the Xi of big data, and then guiding experiments to discover new laws.
Wang Zhenchang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and vice president of Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, focused on the current situation and challenges of artificial intelligence for medical imaging. He said that the advent of the era of artificial intelligence has ushered in new development opportunities for imaging medicine, but the two need to be inseparable and deeply integrated in order to make imaging medicine break through the efficiency bottleneck of diagnosis and evaluation. He further proposed to build an artificial intelligence system from a holistic, comprehensive and whole-process perspective, put a new generation of artificial intelligence technology into clinical practice, realize human-machine mutual trust, improve efficiency, and reconstruct intelligent imaging medicine.
At present, Shenzhen is building a full-time scenario application, promoting "thousands of industries + AI", and striving to create an artificial intelligence pioneer city, and the medical industry is also taking advantage of "AI". Zhang Dongyun, director of the big data department of the Shenzhen Health Development Research and Data Management Center, said that health care big data and medical artificial intelligence are an important part of the future development of the mainland's medical industry. Shenzhen public hospitals have been actively carrying out AI applications in scenarios such as intelligent clinical assisted diagnosis and treatment, medical robots, and intelligent public health services.
HUAWEI CLOUD Healthcare Solution: Level 3 innovation accelerates the high-quality development of the healthcare industry
Since the beginning of this year, the emergence of AI large models has brought new possibilities for intelligent development to thousands of industries. In response to the historic strategic opportunity of AI, Huawei proposed the All Intelligence strategy and released the industry-oriented Pangu Model 3.0 in July this year, which uses the 5+N+X architecture to better support industry innovation. Based on this, we have worked with industry partners to create a medical-oriented industry model - drug molecule model, and continue to move forward on the road of deepening the medical industry.
At the forum, You Peng, President of HUAWEI CLOUD's Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Domain, introduced HUAWEI CLOUD's latest thinking and progress in the healthcare industry. He said that the emergence of large models has pushed the digital intelligence process of the medical industry forward a big step, from the original only recognition and perception to the current thinking and generation. However, the digital and intelligent upgrade of the medical industry still faces key difficulties such as data scale and data quality, continuous upgrading of AI algorithms, support of huge computing power base, and independent security innovation.
You Peng, President of Huawei Cloud's Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Domain
Based on this, HUAWEI CLOUD has launched the healthcare solution, which is driven by the Pangu model, with distributed cloud infrastructure and Ascend cloud services as the computing power base, providing Pangu for medical and health solutions, including Pangu medical model, Pangu drug molecular model, and gene sequencing, and a medical data platform, realizing three-level innovation of "application innovation", "digital intelligence innovation", and "computing power innovation", accelerating the high-quality development of the healthcare industry.
Qiao Nan, General Manager of HUAWEI CLOUD AI Scientific Computing and Chief Healthcare Scientist, further introduced the technical capabilities and achievements of HUAWEI CLOUD's healthcare solutions in the fields of gene sequencing, drug R&D, and clinical research. In terms of gene sequencing, HUAWEI CLOUD provides the world's first automatic genome AutoGenome and AutoOmics, a new multi-omics AutoML framework, to help domestic research institutions take full control of digital sovereignty.
Qiao Nan, General Manager of HUAWEI CLOUD AI Scientific Computing and Chief Healthcare Scientist
In addition, in terms of clinical research, HUAWEI CLOUD has introduced NLP large language models into the medical field and built a new Pangu medical large model. Through the Xi of massive high-quality data such as 16 million academic journals and more than 1 million structured knowledge graphs, the Pangu medical model has the ability to provide medical clinical assistance, and combined with medical professional experience, high-quality Q&A input, and search enhancement capabilities, the Pangu medical model can effectively support AI applications in scenarios such as medical testing, clinical auxiliary diagnosis and treatment, and personal health management, and become a traceable and reliable medical assistant for doctors and patients.
Based on the Pangu model, HUAWEI CLOUD has implemented innovative practices with medical enterprises and institutions such as Runda Medical, Tasly Group, Chipscreen Biosciences, and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. At the conference, the White Paper on Urban Smart Healthcare Cloud Solution, jointly compiled by HUAWEI CLOUD and Runda Healthcare, was officially released. The white paper proposes a smart medical cloud solution for cities, aiming to provide a comprehensive, efficient, safe and intelligent smart medical service platform for medical institutions and various data users, and build an ecological foundation for digital health.
The White Paper on Urban Smart Medical Cloud Solution was released
Five major contracts have been signed, and a number of practices have been implemented, using AI to benefit medical and health care in an intelligent future
Under the general trend of accelerating the integration of AI and the medical industry, AI has become the consensus of experts and scholars in the medical field, the National Health Commission and other industry professionals to promote the sustainable development of digital health and accelerate the implementation of smart healthcare. However, how to combine with medical scenarios and realize application implementation has become a topic of common concern for all parties in the industry such as governments, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and medical technology companies, considering the practical wisdom and collaboration capabilities of all parties in the industry.
With the support of HUAWEI CLOUD's healthcare solutions, pioneers in the healthcare industry have explored new paths and achieved new achievements in "healthcare + AI". Based on the Pangu medical model, Runda Medical has built a large medical examination model "Liangyi Xiaohui", which efficiently extracts structured data, interprets more than 4,500 items and 2,800 diseases in the checklist, and reaches the doctor's interpretation level, making smart diagnosis and treatment within reach.
In addition, representatives of outstanding enterprises such as Infinite Light Year, Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Health 160, and Wanmu Health also shared innovative practices such as the Guangyu Medical Model, the construction of Shanghai Changhai Hospital's smart medical platform, the win-win solution for the healthy city, and the Digital Doctor Agent, providing a specific path for reference for the digital intelligence upgrade of the medical industry. Looking to the future, riding the wave of AI, many enterprise leaders said that they will strengthen cooperation with HUAWEI CLOUD in the field of AI and large models, and continue to innovate based on HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu large model, Ascend AI cloud services, and healthcare solutions to usher in a new era of digital health.
It is worth mentioning that at the forum, HUAWEI CLOUD also reached a series of cooperation agreements with enterprise partners in the medical industry, including tripartite cooperation with Runda Medical and Liu Pharmaceutical Group, as well as cooperation agreements with Guangzhou Aoshida, Wanmu Health, Yikang Medical, and Cowin Health.
In addition, in the roundtable dialogue session, the guests also had an in-depth exchange of opinions and ideas on hot topics such as how AI smart healthcare will develop in the future and how all parties in the industry chain should work together, bringing more thoughts to the participants. During the dialogue, the guests unanimously affirmed the great significance and positive role of artificial intelligence in the development of the medical and health industry.
Sun Xizhuo, former Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group, pointed out that to promote the sound and rapid development and application of AI in the medical and health field, it is necessary for the industry to work together: first, technology suppliers such as Huawei need to launch more and better algorithms to improve computing power and reduce costs as soon as possible, second, doctors from medical institutions need to actively participate and put forward needs, and third, to break down information barriers and allow "information to go out of the hospital wall" to form data sharing under the premise of ensuring patient privacy and security.
Roundtable dialogue
At the end of the forum, You Peng said in his concluding remarks, "HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu Model is committed to empowering thousands of industries, and in this process, it is inseparable from the collaboration of partners in thousands of industries. In the future, HUAWEI CLOUD looks forward to further cooperation with more enterprise partners, continue to empower the life and health industry with technology, and use technology to make people's lives better. ”
Health, connecting the happiness of thousands of households, is related to the future of the country and the nation. HUAWEI CLOUD will continue to innovate in technology, iterate on medical industry solutions based on the Pangu model, empower the digital and intelligent upgrade of the medical industry, and work with more partners and customers in the medical industry to explore innovative applications of "medical + AI", accelerate the development of intelligent medical and health care, and win a win-win intelligent medical and health future.
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