Big Data Next stop: Smart medicine?

Based on large data technology, one day, the accuracy of machine diagnosis and treatment may even exceed the most famous doctors in human history.

WellPoint, America's largest health insurance company, has begun to use IBM's supercomputer "Watson" to help doctors diagnose patients ' illnesses and serve 70 million people. In the field of cancer treatment, it will take one months or longer to develop targeted drug treatment programmes, and the future use of Watson's cognitive computing technology can shorten the cycle to one day, greatly improving the cure rate for cancer patients.

"Watson in the medical, pharmaceutical industry can help the cancer center to do several complex cancer disease diagnosis and data analysis, but also can help to analyze the disease risk, ensure the compliance of the process of compliance, rationality, prevent abuse and fraud, guarantee the safety of insurance company funds, medical institutions can also use Watson to regulate medical costs. "IBM China Ltd. Medical and Life Sciences Division general Manager Liu Hong on the" First financial daily reporter said.

Medical Large data

With the advent of the large data age, the medical industry's informatization also ushered in its own "big data age."

And how to change the patient's passive participation to active health management, shift from a single case effect assessment to a holistic assessment and experience of process, overall performance; From disease data management to health data management, from the point of view of dispute and treatment technology to prevention, care and rehabilitation, the future medical industry needs to pay attention to and solve the problem. And big data is an important road.

According to data provided by IBM, Shanghai Health Information System produces 10 million data per day, 30 million electronic health files have been established, 100 million visits per day, and the total information has reached 2 billion.

2008, IBM launched the MobileFirst strategy, specifically for a variety of wireless terminals, support iOS, Android system. The MobileFirst platform is used to embed APIs and related app applications in various mobile terminal objects to collect and analyze the data of these infinite terminals. The standard, universality and practicality of the data are established by using some small tags like RFID in the internet of things.

According to Liu Hong, the current IBM in Shanghai, part of the hospital launched the BYOD system, that is, the staff at their own expense terminals, to improve the doctors and nurses in the hospital mobility. By working with developers, the introduction of mobile care applications, the various mobile terminals of doctors and nurses connected to the same network, to facilitate doctors and nurses to understand the patient in hospital location and health status, but also improve the mobility of doctors and nurses, do not need to sit in front of the office computer to obtain patient information.

Another set of software in China has been used for real-time asset locator server Rtal (real time Asset locater). Through a set of integration software on the Internet of things, we can check all kinds of medical devices in hospital. For example, check the hospital bedside facilities, inspection staff after inspection through an unlimited LAN can directly upload the server, let Rtal to deal with a variety of data.

Wearable Medical

The transition from medical services to health services will have to mention the recent hot-fried "smart wearable device" and medical combination. Many wearable equipment developers are eager to be able to seize the opportunity in the wisdom of medicine.

In Liu Hong's view, although wearable equipment and medical combination of the market is currently very active, but need to consider more ecological links than imagined.

First of all, have their own public cloud. "With the public cloud, we can cooperate." For example, IBM, in collaboration with the first letter, launched a public cloud service for health management, opening appointments, follow-up, screening and other public health services in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Liu Hong said.

Next is the intelligent wearable equipment and the cooperation link of the medical organization. Liu Hong believes that smart wearable equipment can monitor the health of users through sensing technology, but there is no medical institutions behind the professional diagnosis and analysis of support, and then good applications and data are not reflected advantages.

"Smart wearable equipment and medical care on the consumer side, I insist that this is a small, future big market." Smart wearable devices are more appealing to specific groups of applications than the large cloud general of professional medical institutions. For example, for white-collar women to health and beauty of the pursuit of the introduction of the application of step weight loss, for infants and the elderly, such as the introduction of positioning and health monitoring applications, in the future development potential greater than general medical services. Liu Hong said.

He believed that at present, the IBM more cooperation mainly concentrates in the health Bureau, the hospital, the pharmaceutical factory and so on aspect. In the future, the consumer side should be IBM's key development direction.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)