Analysis of how cloud computing applies to the healthcare industry

At the fourth session of China Cloud Computing Conference, the Capital Medical University affiliated Rehabilitation Hospital Information Center Director Song Si that the separate construction of information architecture for the medical industry is more difficult, facing the cost of long period of long-term maintenance difficulties and so on. As a result, they are considering applying cloud computing to the healthcare industry to solve their current problems. The following is the Song Si share of "cloud computing in the medical industry," the application of thinking.

In this industry in the information construction industry for more than 20 years, Song Si on the current new technology and practical application of some personal experience.

Introduction of information level of Fuxing Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University

The Capital Medical University affiliated Fuxing Hospital is three level General hospital, the bed more than 200 Zhang, 816, from 1960, we built the courtyard, until 1995.

The Renaissance hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University as a revival model of the community in the third-armour hospital, the establishment of a first-level hospital in the moon and a part of us, our hospital has two functions, one is the rehabilitation of hospitals as the main body of the level three in the medical integrated services to provide services, we assume for community health and service work, This includes support for chronic disease management and resident health services. We have a very special place in our hospital.

The Capital Medical University affiliated Fuxing Hospital has 5 places, first of all, our Renaissance hospital is in the Miao, our Community hospital is in the true, covered the Moon-Moon Community 10 Health Service stations, this site is more decentralized, each neighborhood to bind each community station, we also have hospital outpatient, out-patient clinics in the Moon Street, Yue Moon Park behind We are in Xicheng District Xizhimen near the old apartment, the elderly apartment services entirely by the medical staff to bear the services of the elderly.

Since our hospital functions include geographically dispersed, we from the overall planning of the hospital, in the whole construction of the hospital still have to take into account the whole of the hospital's face, in addition, especially in the information construction, we also from the information step-by-step integration of the truth, including from 2005 onwards, we undertook the science and Technology Commission of the project, From 2006 to 2009, I was also responsible for the sharing of information between the hospital and the community as the head of the project.

At that time, we are based on two-way referral, in the project construction process of hospital information construction process, we mainly in the easy to purchase, interoperability, interconnection did a study, our community has formed a more well-known characteristics of the country, three-level hospital with community service model. We now mention the small disease to the community, the disease to the hospital, recovery and return to the community, so the health concept, in the information construction although such a process is very clear, we are in the paper to transmit these health information.

From the beginning of 2006, we found a problem from research and sharing, we community information Construction and hospital information construction development is very uneven, so from its own information construction, we can talk about sharing, in fact, we spent two or three years of time to build their own information systems. To 2007, 2008, we talked about sharing, so throughout the process, I have a lot of experience, but also share with you.

The difficulty of medical information construction

First of all, our hardware devices, very backward, originally we spent most of the energy to do hardware transformation, this is our original computer room photos, now the room will certainly have, three hospitals 2005 years ago is this, we through the engine room transformation, first of all support our business process platform to do some promotion, What information is shared across hospitals and information storage platforms? How to achieve sharing? including from the network, hardware storage platform, or to achieve technology, from this technical level, again difficult, we are able to spend money to do, the funds in place can be done.

But in terms of management, we encounter a lot of difficulties, including medical, health information integration, in electronic medical records and health records on the basis of the establishment, to talk about sharing and interoperability, including what we do now, the results of the patient's examination of the mutual transmission. Our hospital also has a special, there are community hospitals and level Three hospital service mode of different, now our hospital can form this community and level three hospital interactive friendly.

Just now, Mr Suen told an example that the level of medical service in some hospitals, including the level of doctors in the community, may be the trust of everyone, and the level of his medical qualifications has not been met. Our hospital to achieve a level three hospital and community hospital doctors, so that people can see a doctor at the Community hospital assured that there will not be the phenomenon that Sun director said, may not look at this disease, have flocked to the level three hospital to visit, causing the hospital waste.

Throughout the process, we have also seen the healthcare industry's information platform, in the gradual integration, including our new projects are constantly flooded with the demand for medical services, including the integration of the platform, for us, we are from this demand, from the promotion of medical services, Including the original only in the system has a fee tip, now to mention electronic diseases, electronic health files, standardized electronic medical records and electronic health files, including health care to do the resident health card and so on, are actually in the direction of sharing and efficient use of resources.

This is a problem that everyone has been paying attention to, including the security of sharing, we from the security of hardware facilities, including information security, now also gradually mentioned on the agenda, including the system of operation, the larger the system, our operation may be invested and energy special, so I challenge from the medical industry, first of all we are in the separate building , Sun Director mentioned the private cloud, has not constituted the formation of this concept, from our separate construction, I summed up these words, the construction of the information system alone more difficult, technical requirements are very high, the requirements change very quickly.

In the process of information system construction, did not say that I today this demand two years later this result and this demand can correspond to half, it is good, in the entire user use process, the medical change process will have to change. In addition, the construction cost is very big, late maintenance annoying, a lot of systems to integrate, and our operation is not dependent on one to support, but also to coordinate with each other, to negotiate, including some companies may gradually expand the growth, some companies have closed down, or we need users to find the appropriate company to replace, This may be the case.

Using cloud technology to improve the status quo

So from this aspect, I think the concept of cloud, I don't want to swim in here today, but I think this cloud is very, very right, it is the use of service based awareness, medical service applications, from the technical use of hardware virtualization, integration and the massive operation of the system, the future technology upgrade, As well as the application of our data, because in the future hospital or to Beijing or the country, all of our data use in fact to use data to analyze, to serve the people. Therefore, if there is no information sharing, no virtualization technology, the future of our overall data collection and analysis, will not achieve the desired results.

In terms of the cloud computing model, it focuses on infrastructure services and platform building, including we are now the Beijing community Service also has community, including community medical institutions of the three-level platform for the construction, including the Ministry of Health also has the relevant standards and the development of the region, may be here we are concerned about the hot issues are known, From the software services, also say some experience, any platform can not be separated from our application software, from the software services, to build the network as a basis, including hardware platform operating platform above the implementation of software operations.

There is also the improvement of software, including the future integration and unification of the system, is a very difficult task. In terms of the medical service model, I am considering, just also saw the difficulties encountered in the construction process, if it is in the separate construction, first of all, our hardware input, including hardware upgrading, including every hospital renovation, this is called the most basic part of the cloud. Now the network, starting from 2005, do community projects, we do the network leasing or radiation, operating platform investment is very large, not to mention the focus, in fact, for the common People's continuous medical services, from health management to medical services, so from this point of view, We are also calling for the establishment of shared mechanisms and the concept of cloud.

In the SaaS service model, there are several advantages, from the technical level, the hospital now needs it technical personnel, not only understand the medical, but also understand it technology, complex talent is difficult to find, the process of each hospital is not the same, has been familiar with the hospital after the number of years of training, including various departments of the management process is different, more complex. From the professional and technical personnel speaking, can get some solutions. And from the investment side, it is clear that all aspects of investment will continue to increase the unnecessary burden on the hospital.

From operation and maintenance management, the more complex my system is built, the more I manage the cost of operation and maintenance. And the operation of the hospital will be burdened in this respect, through the concept of cloud, cloud services, including some technical improvements, may give us a technical solution to some problems. From the traditional model, to the future integration concept, the concept of sharing, regardless of the application of software services storage in all aspects of the construction, from investment to operations are cost savings, operating period, the implementation of the cycle, there will be some promotion.

Future prospects of cloud computing

What are the expectations from cloud computing? Infrastructure if sharing can save these costs, as well as the storage of data set, we will enhance the efficiency of the business, software Unified Services can avoid duplication of development, from the medical industry now, how can we achieve, this road is very long-term, As IBM has also made some long-term planning, if we say that the capital of Beijing, each hospital, including the level three hospital to share or to be able to truly provide patients with continuous service, I think this road is still very long.

In terms of information systems, since the building is also more, the integration of the existing premise of sharing, there is a unified standard, we have a unified password, even the unified index, so that we can talk about the sharing of resources. The supply of doctors and patients, regardless of network resources or technical resources, is not scarce, but from the whole how to serve the people's individual, as well as from the basis of community management, we medical services, we can carry out the mutual win-patient communication, still need to be a sound mechanism.

Let me give you an example once visited the Community health service in Australia, when we are in the process of information construction, want to go to them to learn, to see the Melbourne Community health service stations, including computers do not use the computer in our country, and their integration of information systems are by law, private clinics and this private clinic, I am a patient, I may choose a, do not choose B, but this a is legally responsible for this personal doctor to give me all the health files, I went to Doctor B, I took a complete health file, they are also a card.

Not only the patient's own health, but also their family genealogy as a unit, so to do information collection. So I think if we share it in the future, the realization of the interconnection, and finally mentioned the security, including our network is now interconnected, is not able to direct, is not a grade, is not going to have some security mechanisms, what permissions can see all the information, this is our future will be in the information construction, And the issues that are worth exploring in our shared process.