Healthcare Youth Innovation Center Establishes Medical Imaging Innovation Committee to Accelerate Technology Commercialization
VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that on January 25, the 2018 Annual Work Summary Meeting of the Communist Youth League Committee and the Health Innovation Center for Young Professionals at Peking Union Medical College Hospital was successfully held at the hospital. During the meeting, the establishment of the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee under the Health Innovation Center for Young Professionals was officially announced. As one of the co-initiators of the project, Wingmed Group was invited to attend the meeting and signed an agreement with the Innovation Center for project development on site.
Innovation is the inexorable driving force behind the development of our times. In the field of medical imaging, innovation must originate from clinical needs and ultimately serve clinical practice; therefore, young physicians are the main force driving innovation. To guide young professionals in radiology to establish and implement innovative development concepts, enhance their professional expertise, actively engage in scientific research and innovation, serve more patients at the primary care level, and effectively address the uneven distribution of medical imaging resources, the Youth Innovation Center has jointly established the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee of the Health and Wellness Youth Innovation Center with Wingmed Group, Alibaba Cloud, and CEC Data.
As one of the primary initiators of the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee under the Youth Innovation Center for Health, Wingtech Medical Group leverages its Wingtech Cloud Imaging medical imaging platform to facilitate the team’s scientific research and innovation, while also providing technical personnel support to assist in the construction of the project’s platform.
Currently, Yizhan has launched an upgraded version of its Cloud Empowerment Center. Building upon its self-developed products, technologies, and services, the center now integrates internal and external partners, offering greater openness and inclusivity. Leveraging a cloud-based smart imaging system with image diagnosis as the entry point, Yizhan has comprehensively deployed an AI open platform. Meanwhile, through its online medical imaging consortium and offline imaging center operations, it acquires vast amounts of high-quality data resources to establish the Yizhan Cloud Imaging Data Platform. In collaboration with partners, Yizhan is building a comprehensive multimodal database to empower medical imaging AI, covering both clinical diagnosis and treatment as well as scientific research. This initiative aims to achieve digitalization, mobilization, and intelligence in medical imaging, providing one-stop solutions for governments and healthcare institutions.
The primary objective of establishing the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee jointly with Peking Union Medical College Hospital’s Youth Innovation Center is to accelerate the implementation of innovative medical imaging technologies in China. By pooling resources from across the industry chain and conducting research on medical imaging big data, this initiative aims to provide a data foundation for talent development, clinical medicine advancement, and artificial intelligence product research. It seeks to build a hub for innovative practices in medical imaging, thereby accelerating the commercialization and market adoption of imaging innovations.
According to reports, the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee of the Youth Innovation Center for Health will focus on building three major platforms in the future: the Joint R&D and Application Platform for Innovative Medical Imaging Technologies, the Translation Platform for Innovative Medical Imaging Products and Technologies, and the Talent Development Platform for Medical Imaging Innovation.
Specifically, the Joint R&D and Application Platform for Innovative Medical Imaging Technologies primarily establishes collaborative rules for joint research, development, and application; organizes cross-disciplinary and cross-sector teams to jointly develop new products and technologies in the field of medical imaging; facilitates the generation of diverse innovative outcomes, including scientific papers, innovative products, and novel technologies; and promotes the transfer and commercialization of market-ready innovative products.
The Medical Imaging Innovation Product and Technology Translation Platform will bring together clinical experts, radiologists, research institutions, and leading enterprises in the field to establish a repository of innovation projects based on medical imaging. By building an online platform and facilitating offline collaboration and matchmaking, the platform will provide incubation and translation support for innovative technologies and products in medical imaging, accelerating the transition of innovative projects from clinical research to societal application.
The Medical Imaging Innovative Talent Development Platform leverages the national branch centers of the Youth Innovation Center and the “Medical Innovation Practice Bases” to provide space for young radiologists at primary care institutions to enhance their skills and engage in innovative activities. It has developed a systematic curriculum designed to cultivate innovation capabilities among medical imaging professionals, guiding and encouraging imaging technologists to conduct scientific research and translate innovations into practical applications, thereby offering a learning and practice platform for innovative technologies to imaging technologists across China.
Through the joint efforts of three major platforms, the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee of the Youth Entrepreneurship Center will focus on incubating innovative achievements and training in medical imaging innovation capabilities. It aims to fully tap into the innovative potential of young radiologists, address the uneven distribution of medical imaging resources in China, support the national tiered diagnosis and treatment system, and provide a data foundation for national scientific research projects through the study of big data in medical imaging, thereby promoting the development and implementation of artificial intelligence products in medical imaging.
The establishment of the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee of the Youth Innovation Center aims to timely share innovative information, provide communication platforms, build innovation platforms, and offer innovation services, ultimately transforming innovative achievements into products. Therefore, the Committee will always maintain an open attitude, collaborating with artificial intelligence enterprises, equipment manufacturers, internet healthcare companies, and other stakeholders to fully leverage its role. It will actively promote the exchange and integration of social resources across industry, academia, research, and application, fostering innovation in medical imaging technology and achieving win-win outcomes through multi-party collaboration, thereby contributing youthful wisdom and strength to the comprehensive implementation of the Healthy China Strategy.
As a founder of the Medical Imaging Innovation Committee of the Youth Entrepreneurship Center, Wingmed Group will continuously strengthen its collaboration with hospitals, AI R&D institutions, medical device manufacturers, and internet healthcare enterprises. It is committed to establishing platforms for talent development and international cooperation in the field of medical imaging. By promoting exchanges and collaboration among outstanding project teams both domestically and internationally, Wingmed aims to enhance the global influence of Chinese imaging products and technologies. Meanwhile, it will drive the establishment of national data standards, data application guidelines, and cooperation rules, ensuring the legal, compliant, and reasonable use of data. In implementing the national strategy of independent innovation, Wingmed remains steadfast in its original aspiration to ensure equitable access to high-quality medical imaging diagnosis for all, thereby providing superior medical services to patients worldwide.