BOE IPC·2020: Building a New Health Management Ecosystem in the IoT Era

On November 18, the BOE Global Innovation Partners Conference·2020 (BOE IPC·2020) was grandly held in Beijing.

The conference theme continued the IoT strategy of “Chip, Screen, Gas/Device, and Harmony” proposed by BOE in 2016, under the banner of “Chip, Screen, Gas/Device, and Harmony: Smart Navigation.” It showcased innovative integration with numerous partners on intelligent and digital platforms. Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference may be the most unique one to date, adopting an innovative hybrid online-offline model and launching video live streaming for the first time to share the latest achievements in the IoT field with a broader audience.

The 2020 BOE Smart Medicine and Engineering Forum, held in the afternoon, was themed “Integration of Medicine and Engineering for a Smart Health Future: A New Ecosystem for Health Management in the Internet of Things Era.” Centered on BOE’s strategic layout in smart medicine and engineering, the forum brought together industry experts to discuss emerging trends in health management during the IoT era. It also unveiled the BOE Health Management Ecosystem and showcased its three major platforms that form an O+O (Online-to-Offline) full-cycle closed-loop health service system, aiming to create a new ecosystem for health management in the IoT age.

Feng Qiang, Senior Vice President of BOE and CEO of the Smart Medical Engineering Business Group, stated that BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering initiative is a strategic deployment in BOE’s IoT transformation. By integrating technology with medicine and fostering innovation through medical-engineering convergence, the initiative adheres to a people-centric approach, focusing on homes, communities, and hospitals. It aims to build a health IoT platform that connects diagnostic devices, healthcare professionals, and customers, thereby creating a smart health management ecosystem. The initiative prioritizes the development of three key platforms: a data integration and visualization member service platform, a smart terminal and IoT solutions platform, and a “4 Zero 4D” digital hospital platform.

At the conference, Liu Jia’an, Senior Vice President of BOE and Co-CEO of the Smart Medical Engineering Business Group, unveiled BOE’s Health Management Ecosystem. He stated that, adhering to a “people-centric” service philosophy and prioritizing “preventive care,” BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering Business has built an O+O closed-loop system for full-cycle health services, with health management at its core, smart terminals as tools, and digital hospitals as support. Leveraging the unique, personalized health and medical data profiles of users, the company delivers comprehensive, precise, intelligent, and visualized health management services throughout the entire care continuum.

BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering Division officially launched a data-integrated visual membership service platform: the Digital Human APP 3.0. Compared with version 2.0, BOE leverages its medical AI analysis model, “Kangxi Brain,” to provide users with more personalized and precise health management recommendations, while assisting medical teams in managing user health more efficiently.

The conference specially invited Professor Fan Yubo, Dean of the Institute of Medical-Engineering Interdisciplinary Innovation at Beihang University; Professor Wu Liuxin, Dean of the Zhongguancun New Zhiyuan Health Management Research Institute and Honorary Chairman of the Health Management Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; and Wang Jianming, Chairman of Boercheng (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., to deliver keynote speeches.

Professor Fan Yubo believes that the interdisciplinary development of medicine and engineering not only aligns with China’s “Healthy China” strategy, but also represents a significant hotspot and trend in scientific and technological advancement through the convergence of biomedicine and engineering sciences.

Professor Wu Liuxin analyzed the trends in health management and the health industry under the new normal of the pandemic. He stated that opportunities and challenges will coexist in the future, with smart healthcare and internet-based healthcare poised for significant development opportunities.

Mr. Wang Jianming is a leading figure in the field of early cancer diagnosis and intervention in China. In his speech, he reviewed the current status of cancer prevention and control in China, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and early intervention. Aligning with national trends, Boercheng has launched multiple products and services for early cancer diagnosis. In the future, BOE and Boercheng will engage in comprehensive and in-depth cooperation to jointly promote a shift in public health awareness from post-onset treatment to early diagnosis and early intervention, thereby safeguarding people’s health.

BOE Smart Health Engineering strives to create a new ecosystem for health management in the IoT era, facilitating the digital transformation of families, communities, hospitals, and even the entire public health system.

Communities are vital spaces that influence public health, and advancing the development of healthy communities is a key channel for promoting the Healthy China strategy. Sun Bin, Marketing Director of Health Technology at BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering Business Group, stated in his speech that BOE has deeply integrated technologies such as display technology, 5G, artificial intelligence, and big data to launch smart elderly care and wellness community solutions. By focusing on people’s livelihoods, these solutions enable residents to easily conduct health checks and access professional medical and health management services either at home or within their communities, thereby better meeting the public’s health needs for a better quality of life.

On the other hand, traditional hospital services have primarily focused on disease diagnosis and treatment, lacking pre- and post-hospital care offerings such as “preventive healthcare” and “smart elderly care.” As a result, they can no longer meet people’s growing demands, and the hospital system is in urgent need of transformation. From the perspective of leveraging digital hospitals to innovate health management models, He Fang, President of Hefei BOE Hospital, stated that BOE Digital Hospital will adhere to the principles of “technological leadership, model innovation, and data-driven operations.” By building a Center of Excellence (COE) for key disciplines, integrating human, financial, and material resource data, and creating an interconnected 4D platform, BOE aims to extend high-quality health services into communities and homes, providing customers with an optimal experience across the “pre-hospital, in-hospital, and post-hospital” continuum.

Advancements in healthcare during the Internet of Things (IoT) era are inseparable from technological innovation. In his speech, Zhang Yufan, Deputy Director of BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering Research Institute, presented the opportunities and challenges facing future intelligent medical devices and the construction of visualized disease control and prevention systems. Relying on its microfluidic chip research, development, and production platform, BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering Research Institute has independently developed a rapid nucleic acid testing system. This system is poised to become an intelligent terminal for infectious disease prevention and control, playing a significant role in digital urban health management and the development of public health systems.

BOE’s Smart Medical Engineering business integrates technology with medicine, driving innovation through the convergence of medical and engineering disciplines. Adhering to a people-centric approach, it focuses on homes, communities, and hospitals. By building a Health IoT platform that connects diagnostic devices, healthcare professionals, and customers, it establishes a smart health management ecosystem. This creates an O+O closed-loop system for full-cycle health services, centered on health management, enabled by smart terminals, and supported by digital hospitals, thereby providing high-quality, convenient healthcare services to the public.