From April 7th to 10th, the 2024 World Health Expo (hereinafter referred to as the Health Expo) was grandly opened in Wuhan, with more than 1,000 medical enterprises and a group of academicians, hospital presidents, experts, and leading entrepreneurs in the field of health gathered in Wuhan to display new products, exchange new trends, and discuss the development of the health industry.
Xue Min, Chairman of United Imaging Group, said: "The continuous emergence of original and disruptive innovation achievements depends on the joint efforts of all sectors of industry, academia, research and medicine to jointly create an open, inclusive, vibrant and continuously evolving innovation ecosystem, and promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain and talent chain. I sincerely hope that more entrepreneurs from all over the world in the field of health can take root in Wuhan, and more scientists and doctors will enter the enterprise and join hands with us to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into new quality productivity of medical and health care, and draw a blueprint for the future of medical and health with subversive new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, and jointly build a new pattern of 'original innovation in science and technology, industrial transformation and upgrading, and high-quality development of health care' at the same frequency and synergy!"
The full line of high-end diagnosis and treatment products and medical-engineering cross-innovation achievements were fully unveiled
At the booth, United Imaging Group brought a series of high-end diagnosis and treatment products such as the world's first whole-body clinical ultra-high field 5T magnetic resonance uMR Jupiter, the industry's top uOR hybrid operating room, the overall solutions of 14 major groups, more than 100 AI applications and self-developed core components. Among them, the "Human Lung Gas Magnetic Resonance Imaging System" and "United Imaging Intelligent Neurosurgery Navigation and Positioning System", which won the top ten medical-engineering cross-innovation achievements in Hubei Province in 2023, were also unveiled at the United Imaging booth, which are major innovation achievements of United Imaging Group's deep cultivation in Hubei and deep integration of medical and engineering.
According to reports, the human lung gas magnetic resonance imaging system was developed by President Zhou Xin of the Institute of Precision Measurement Science and Technology Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (formerly Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics) after more than ten years of independent innovation and painstaking research and development, United Imaging Group's collaborative innovation and transformation, and top medical institutions to verify the clinical application potential, and won the national Class III medical device registration certificate (innovative product) in 2023.
The team has successfully overcome a series of key technical problems, and achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in hyperpolarization technology, ultrafast lung gas imaging technology, human multi-magnetic resonance imaging technology, etc., realizing non-invasive and radiation-free visual imaging of the lungs, which has become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of major lung diseases. The system has been deployed to many top hospitals and institutions such as Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Provincial Cancer Hospital, etc., involving chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, radiation lung injury, lung cancer and other case studies.
Visitors are looking at a magnetic resonance imaging system for human lung gases
At this conference, United Imaging Group signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which is the second upgrade since the two sides launched a comprehensive strategic cooperation in 2018. According to reports, in the future, the two sides will take clinical research hospitals as the traction, based on the overall and long-term problems related to people's health, and focus on core technology research with the innovative model of "deep integration of industry, university, research and medicine", focusing on the "neck" and "one foot in the door" technology in the field of medical diagnosis and treatment, and strengthening strategic cooperation in medical transformation and clinical research of high-end medical devices.
Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with representatives of United Imaging Group
As an important layout of United Imaging Group in Hubei, United Imaging Intelligence has been rooted in Hubei since its establishment, and has successively carried out industry-university-research-medical integration and innovation with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University, Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and other fields, and led a number of key scientific research projects of Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau. The United Imaging Zhirong Neurosurgery Navigation and Positioning System exhibited this time has carried out multi-center clinical trials in a number of hospitals led by Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which is also one of the major achievements of in-depth collaborative innovation between industry, academia, research and medicine.
"The neurosurgery navigation and positioning system adopts the integrated integration of navigation and positioning functions and the efficient and non-invasive structured light registration method, and can assist clinicians in accurate judgment in a variety of stereotactic surgeries with the intelligent software application and efficient hardware collaboration of the whole process, break through the operation limit of traditional surgery, and significantly improve the accuracy of intraoperative navigation and registration efficiency. The staff of the United Imaging booth introduced.
Visitors are listening to the introduction of the navigation and positioning system for neurosurgery
In addition, United Imaging Zhiyuan, a subsidiary of United Imaging Group, participated in the expo for the first time, bringing digital intelligence products such as uMetaImaging meta-imaging solutions, uSolar medical data and equipment management platform, and uMetaOpen open cloud.
In the hospital diagnosis and treatment system, the use of image data is crucial, and this part of the data accounts for up to 80%-90% of the total data. However, for hospitals, data across regions, hospitals, and departments cannot be shared for a long time, and the efficient use of these massive data has become a major problem.
"Integrating cutting-edge technologies such as big data and the metaverse, we have created the uMetaImaging meta-imaging solution, which realizes the unified storage and management of multi-modal, cross-scale and cross-regional data, covering a wide range of business scenarios, including medical technology, clinical, management, scientific research and teaching. For example, the solution is equipped with more than 110 intelligent applications to bring image retrieval from minutes to the 'second era', which is equipped with cutting-edge cinematic rendering technology, which can quickly create ultra-realistic representations of human bones, organs or fine vascular structures, helping doctors accurately diagnose diseases, make treatment decisions, and help patients easily understand their conditions. United Imaging booth staff said.
The staff of the United Imaging booth is explaining the uMetaImaging meta-imaging solution
Integrate the innovative power of the group to provide overall solutions for the development of hospitals
At this year's Construction Expo, in order to fully respond to the requirements of the times for high-quality medical development, United Imaging also exhibited the overall solutions of 14 major groups.
At present, the development of the medical field is ushering in an unprecedented period of change. The "baton" of performance appraisal has led hospitals at all levels to return to the responsibility standard, and comprehensive budget management and DRGs/DIP reform have forced hospitals to make careful plans for development. At the end of last year, ten ministries and commissions jointly issued a document to push the development of county-level medical communities into the fast lane, and the overall planning of regional medical care and the overall improvement of quality and efficiency have become the key priorities for the development of today's medical system. The relationship between medical enterprises is being upgraded from a simple equipment supply to a strategic partner for common growth and innovation, and an integrated solution that goes beyond "single product and vertical track" has become a must to help the high-quality development of hospitals.
To this end, United Imaging brings together innovative products, technologies and services from the whole group to create comprehensive solutions for various key national construction projects, from the national medical center to the thousand-county project and the construction of county-level medical communities, and in the development and construction of hospital specialties, to create solutions covering tumors, nerves, hearts, imaging, imaging, interventional and other solutions.
In Macheng, in order to solve the problems of the loss of seriously ill patients and the weak regional coordination ability, Macheng People's Hospital introduced United Imaging County-level Medical Community solution, deployed a series of high-end diagnosis and treatment equipment, and cooperated with United Imaging to build an integrated and collaborative platform for Macheng Regional Medical Community. With Macheng People's Hospital as the core, the platform connects 24 subordinate township health centers, realizes "grassroots examination, county-level diagnosis, and mutual recognition of results" between superiors and subordinates within the medical community, opens up a two-way referral mechanism, and realizes "uninterrupted treatment, uninterrupted connection, and uninterrupted follow-up". By the end of 2023, more than 20,000 ECG consultation cases have been completed on the Macheng Regional Medical Community Integration Collaboration Platform, and more than 10,000 remote imaging reports have been completed.
A radiologist from Macheng People's Hospital is doing an MRI examination for a patient
At the beginning of 2022, United Imaging Healthcare deeply participated in the "323" Action Plan for Outstanding Problems Affecting People's Health in Hubei Province, initiated by the Hubei Provincial People's Government, to promote the construction of a system of "prevention, screening, management, treatment, and research", and to help Hubei solve the underlying diseases, major diseases, and public health problems that affect and threaten the health of the people. Among them, United Imaging's innovative solution for stroke prevention and treatment has taken root in 6 towns and villages in Zhijiang City, Hubei Province, using intelligent technologies such as intelligent Tianyan CT equipment, artificial intelligence technology, and regional imaging platform to help solve the problem of stroke diagnosis and treatment at the grassroots level, and promote the CT imaging examination capacity to sink into the grassroots towns and towns, achieving more than 30,000 CT examinations a year.
A radiologist from the Qixingtai Town Health Center in Zhijiang City is doing a CT scan of a patient
Build an industry-university-research-medical innovation community and promote original and leading scientific and technological research
Since 2013, United Imaging Group has taken root in Wuhan, integrated corporate value into Hubei's development strategy and social development needs, actively promoted the establishment of a number of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, and worked with forces from all walks of life to carry out original and leading scientific and technological research, build advanced ultra-high-end clinical and scientific research equipment, and empower the high-quality development of Hubei's health industry with new productivity.
In 2018, United Imaging Group, together with the Institute of Precision Measurement Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Tongji Hospital and other partners, jointly established the "Wuhan Institute of Industrial Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences Medical Science and Technology", with Ye Zhaohui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the president, and China's first ultra-high-field animal magnetic resonance uMR 9.4T was born. At present, based on uMR 9.4T, more researchers are carrying out cutting-edge research on animal fat quantification and animal traumatic brain injury, and the relevant research results have been selected into the world's top academic journals such as ISMR (International Medical Magnetic Resonance Society Congress) and Molecular Therapy.
Since the opening of United Imaging Wuhan ABP, a series of core components of high-end medical equipment such as tubes, magnetic resonance gradient power amplifiers (GPA), and magnetic resonance radio frequency power amplifiers (RFPA) have achieved breakthroughs and mass production. In 2023, United Imaging Zhirong Medical Innovation Headquarters Base will be officially signed and landed, which will build a high-end medical equipment R&D center, carry out technical research on the "stuck neck" problem in the field of high-end medical treatment and rehabilitation equipment, and build an intelligent production base for medical robots, medical wearable devices, medical 3D printing and other products.
Xue Min said: "Facing the future, we will continue to cultivate Hubei, look at the world, continue to explore frontier and unknown areas, actively embrace the changes of the era of the big health industry, and promote China's intelligent manufacturing, Chinese brands, and Chinese wisdom to the world." ”
Reporter Wei Wei, correspondent Dai Peiwen