Over 200 Projects Enter Nation's Premier Clinical-Focused Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition—Don't Miss It!

The “Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition” is guided by the Information Professional Committee of the Chinese Hospital Association (CHIMA), initiated by the Joint Laboratory of Mobile Health Education and China Mobile, and co-organized with relevant local associations, societies, and industry institutions.

Open toIndustry associations, regulatory authorities, medical institutions, and innovative enterprises across China, inviteTeams of Outstanding Smart Healthcare Innovation Projects from Across the Countryparticipation, by nationwideHospital Informatics Experts, Corporate Technology Experts, Industry Research and Investment ExpertsThe newly established Innovation Mentorship Program provides guidance, aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and applied innovation in smart healthcare, thereby continuously driving the wave of innovation and entrepreneurship in the field.

Since its inception in 2017, the competition has expanded from its base in Central South China to East China and the Central and Western regions, gradually developing intoNational Healthcare Innovation Event. By 2018, the competition had gathered 125 projects from 17 provinces and municipalities across China. More than 400 representatives from over 100 hospitals nationwide and dozens of co-applicant enterprises participated in the competition and the final evaluations.

Drawing on the specific circumstances of the previous two editions, we have reviewed past competitions and deconstructed the evolution and future trajectory of the Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition to help you gain insight into this premier industry event.

The 2017 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition covered various industry sectors, including hospital information management, nursing, logistics, quality control, medication management, health insurance, doctor-patient relations, and scientific research. Innovations in the application of technologies such as big data, the internet, cloud computing, and mobile connectivity, along with clinical application innovations, served as the entry points for projects. Among the more than 30 participating projects, 13 were in medical information systems, 8 in nursing, 3 in pharmacy, 2 each in health insurance, hospital infection control, and logistics, and 1 in operational management.

The 2018 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition covered areas such as Internet Plus, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), clinical practice, and management, encompassing multiple sectors including pharmaceuticals, nursing, medical technology, information technology, logistics, and administration. Among the entries, there were 72 themed around the Internet, 23 focused on cloud computing, 49 on big data, 32 on artificial intelligence, 35 on the Internet of Things, 35 on clinical information, and 44 on information management.

Data on project distribution from two editions of the Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition indicate a surge in healthcare industry transformation driven by technological innovation. “Internet + Healthcare” has emerged as a new opportunity for smart healthcare venture capital and investment, with market trends and end-user demands revealing new key focal points.

Among the award-winning projects in 2018, the innovation-driven development strategy provided impetus for medical advancement. Xiangya Hospital constructed a “‘Internet+’-Based Whole-Course Disease Management System,” which leverages three major information technology tools—HCRM, HCCM, and the WeChat account “Zhiyi Online”—to integrate five core operational modules: pre-hospital preparation, in-hospital services, discharge preparation, two-way referral, and post-discharge tracking and follow-up. This established a bridge-like, whole-course health management platform spanning both inside and outside the hospital, truly realizing care-oriented managed healthcare.

The “Application of Multimodal Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction System” project at Pengzhou People’s Hospital utilizes speech recognition, touch sensing, gesture control, and motion interaction technologies to operate the software. The software system automatically integrates with other medical information systems to retrieve patient data and display medical images, transforming abstract data into concrete visualizations. This achieves a significant leap in medical imaging workflows—from transverse cross-sections to multi-planar and even three-dimensional representations—substantially improving diagnostic accuracy and reducing surgical complexity and duration.

“Research and Application of an Automated Disease Diagnosis Coding System,” a competing project from the Army Medical Center (formerly the Third Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University), achieved automated diagnosis coding based on machine learning methods for parsing diagnostic terminology. It realized standardized, precise, and intelligent clinical diagnostic descriptions, significantly reducing labor and time costs, and achieved outstanding results in the competition.

As technological advancement increasingly becomes the core driver of innovation-driven development strategies, technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are gradually integrating with clinical medicine, thereby propelling its progress. The application of these technologies in clinical practice has emerged as the most noteworthy and valuable area within the realm of healthcare innovation.

At the 2018 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition, the “YaFu—Intelligent Dermatological Diagnosis and Treatment Medical Consortium Platform,” developed by the Department of Dermatology at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and the Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Skin Health and Disease, was awarded the “Most Applicable Value Award,” garnering significant attention and acclaim.

“Yafu—Intelligent Dermatology Diagnosis and Treatment Medical Consortium Platform” is China’s first intelligent dermatology medical consortium translation platform. It pioneers a multi-dimensional diagnosis and treatment model that incorporates clinical images, imaging studies, and medical history, leveraging a novel approach combining dermatoscopes and other devices with the platform to significantly improve diagnostic accuracy. Currently, the platform has integrated 600 networked hospitals across 81 provinces and municipalities in China, with over 3,000 online follow-up cases and more than 2,000 online referral cases.

The competition outcomes and innovative solutions will be showcased at the “2019 China Hospital Association Information Management Conference (CHIMA),” with selected award-winning projects featured in dedicated “Outcome Presentation Sessions” held during the conference. The “Joint Laboratory Innovation Project Fund,” established by the Ministry of Education’s Mobile Healthcare Initiative in partnership with China Mobile, will provide award-winning projects with opportunities to receive special funding and cash prizes from the competition.

The competition will introduce an industry incubation fund. Projects from winning entities will be recommended to relevant innovation investment funds and investment firms, as well as to major innovation incubation funds and the competition’s partner investment institutions. The Organizing Committee will appoint industry and investment experts to form an Investment Advisory Panel, dedicated to supporting the investment and incubation of participating projects and winning entities, thereby facilitating the commercialization and development of project outcomes.

The Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition leveraged a diverse, omnichannel promotional strategy—spanning television, websites, official social media accounts, WeChat groups, and Moments—to disseminate information throughout all phases, from launch and online voting to the announcement of judging results, thereby significantly enhancing public engagement and societal attention.

The online voting volume for the 2017 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition exceeded680,000, industry attention exceedsOver 3 million, obtained through the internetOver 2 millionclick-through rate, basically covering healthcare professionals across the province. The 2018 Medical Innovation Competition had a total ofOver 100 media outletsand30+ HospitalsTotal Impressions ReachedOver 20 million times, the number of online votes during the finals reached3.965 million views, covering professionals across China’s medical institutions and related enterprises.

The 2019 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition will also promote its outcomes through various channels, including Weibo, WeChat, online media, and television. In addition, a dedicated website will serve as a long-term platform for promoting the award-winning projects, featuring them on its web pages.

The 2019 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition was jointly hosted by industry associations, societies, and Internet medical health industry alliances from more than ten provinces and municipalities, including Hunan, Guangdong, Hubei, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Fujian, Henan, Anhui, and Sichuan. It was co-initiated by nearly 20 industry experts and leaders, with enthusiastic participation from hundreds of hospitals and enterprises.

The competition will bring together the core members of the Top 10 teams from previous national competitions and the Top Ten Emerging Talents to establish the “Smart Healthcare Innovation Advisory Committee.” This committee will support future industry and application innovations by conducting innovation assessments, exchanges, and mentoring activities. Let us be the evangelists of the new era of smart healthcare!

Registration for the 2019 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition will commence in April 2019. Regional preliminary rounds are scheduled to be completed by early June, with outstanding cases from each region having the opportunity to advance to the national finals held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, in mid-June. Winners of the finals will have the opportunity to present their achievements at the Results Presentation Session of the China Hospital Association Information Management Conference (CHIMA 2019).

The top 100 competitors across China will advance to the Grand Finals, where a panel comprising expert judges, professional judges, and public judges will jointly determine the first, second, and third prize winners, as well as the National Top 10, Rising Stars, Outstanding Contribution Award, Best Organization Award, and Most Popular Award.

Registration Deadline: May 25

Website Registration URL:www.mhealthchina.org

Registration Email: info@mhealthchina.org (Please send competition materials to the email address of the regional coordinator)