Jinling Meets Smart Hospitals: Group Hospital Informatization Development Symposium Held in Nanjing
VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that on December 13, the Seminar on the Development of Information Technology Construction in Hospital Groups and H3C’s Exploration of the “Smart Path” for Hospitals was held in Nanjing. The event was hosted by the Hospital Information Management Professional Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital Association, organized by Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital, and co-organized by H3C Group, a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup. Senior experts from large hospitals, medical and elderly care enterprises, and high-tech companies across China gathered to share outstanding achievements and experiences in the construction of new hospital campuses and IT infrastructure for hospital groups. Focusing on hot topics such as smart hospitals, medical consortia, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI), participants explored practical pathways for advancing the development of smart hospitals.
Liu Naifeng, Dean of the Medical School of Southeast University, Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, and Chairman of the Information Management Professional Committee of the Jiangsu Hospital Association, elaborated on the application directions of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector. He objectively and calmly discussed the value of AI in assisting physicians with diagnoses and improving diagnostic efficiency. Furthermore, he pointed out that China’s large population provides abundant data sources; rational data mining and the establishment of data-sharing platforms will bring substantial benefits to the entire industry chain and society at large. Domestic enterprises, hospitals, and government bodies should promote continuous communication and resource integration to jointly advance the progress and development of core AI technologies, such as machine learning algorithms and chips.
Professor Liu Naifeng, Dean of the Medical School of Southeast University, Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases at Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, and Chairman of the Information Management Professional Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital Association
Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital is the first large-scale general hospital under Taikang Insurance Group to integrate medical care, teaching, and research. With a global perspective on its informatization construction, the hospital focuses on meeting both current and future development needs. Li Zhiping, President of Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital, stated that the hospital has designed its smart services around the usage scenarios of patients, medical staff, and administrators, making these services more convenient, intelligent, and human-centric throughout every corner of the facility. This approach serves as an important model for the development of smart hospitals in East China and across the country.
Professor Li Zhiping, President of Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital
H3C has remained the leading enterprise in the healthcare industry for eight consecutive years, shouldering the critical responsibilities of innovation, exploration, and demonstration in facilitating the steady advancement of smart hospitals in China. In his address, Yu Zhihong, Vice President of H3C Group’s China Region and Director of the Healthcare Systems Division, stated that the healthcare sector is undergoing a significant transformation from being “disease-centered” to “people’s health-centered.” Healthcare informatization must adapt to and accelerate this shift. H3C is fully meeting the needs for regional interconnectivity and resource sharing in the development of digital hospitals, smart hospitals, and the Healthy China initiative through its continuously innovative, scenario-based solutions, establishing itself as the most trusted partner for digital transformation in the healthcare industry.
Yu Zhihong, Vice President of H3C Group China Region and Director of the Healthcare Systems Division
2018 marked the tenth year of China’s new healthcare reform, and how digital technology can fully support this reform remains to be explored. Yin Weidong, Secretary-General of the Nanjing Health Information Society, stated that large hospitals and hospital groups should play a pioneering role in digital healthcare by standardizing primary care practices and facilitating horizontal and vertical interoperability. This approach aims to alleviate the problems of high costs, difficult access, and uneven distribution of medical resources, thereby enabling the public to enjoy more convenient, higher-quality, and more efficient healthcare services.
Yin Weidong, Secretary-General of the Nanjing Health Information Society
Digital technology offers new pathways for healthcare reform. Regarding its most direct impact on patients, Donny Patel, Director of IT Governance at Mount Sinai Health System in the United States, pointed out that the biggest gap between domestic hospitals and top-tier international hospitals lies not in medical technology, but in hospital operational management. The level of operational management directly affects patients’ final treatment outcomes, while digital technologies such as mobile nursing care can rapidly enhance hospitals’ operational management capabilities through technological means.
Donny Patel, Director of IT Governance at Mount Sinai Health System, USA
Yang Xiaoyu, Assistant General Manager of the Health Technology Center at Taikang Health Investment and Chief Medical Information Officer of Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital, stated that the next decade presents a significant window of opportunity for digital transformation in the financial and healthcare sectors. Drawing on the “Kaiser Model,” Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital leverages data as a foundational platform and integrates the interests of payers and providers through digital technologies. By harnessing three key elements—commercial insurance, technology promotion, and incentive mechanisms—the hospital achieves effective control over medical costs, an innovation that benefits both the institution and the public.
Yang Xiaoyu, Assistant General Manager of the Health Technology Center at Taikang Insurance Group and Chief Medical Information Officer at Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital
Today, Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital has achieved significant results in its information technology (IT) infrastructure development. Yan Bin, Director of the Information Center at Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital, shared practical insights on IT infrastructure development within group hospitals at the forum. He stated that infrastructure construction must fully consider the hospital’s current status and future development plans. In this regard, as a pragmatic and key partner, H3C helped the hospital achieve integrated wired and wireless networks, dual-active storage backup, and intelligent unified operations and maintenance, providing one-stop, comprehensive services and laying a solid foundation for the construction of a smart hospital.
Yan Bin, Director of the Information Center, Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital
Addressing the capability framework for smart healthcare development, Li Zhifu, Technical Director of the Healthcare Industry at H3C Group, shared at the forum that H3C’s smart healthcare solutions encompass five core capabilities: top-level design, planning and consulting, product R&D, solution innovation, and ecosystem building. Furthermore, H3C provides cutting-edge technologies for smart healthcare, including on-demand cloud computing resources, an integrated and shared big data platform, an IoT-enabled connectivity network, and end-to-end information security protection from cloud to endpoint. The company boasts comprehensive technical capabilities spanning computing, storage, networking, and security, along with service capabilities that cover the entire lifecycle.
Li Zhifu, Technical Director of the Healthcare Industry at H3C Group
As the premier model and bellwether for smart hospitals and service-oriented hospitals across China, Beijing Tiantan Hospital’s Chief Information Officer, Bai Bo, shared the hospital’s experience in intelligent construction of its new campus at the seminar. He pointed out that the development of the new campus spanned several years from design to completion. Leveraging H3C’s ICT convergence solutions, Tiantan Hospital has achieved an end-to-end intelligent transformation spanning the entire patient journey—from appointment registration to medical consultation—thereby establishing a robust, fully converged healthcare IT infrastructure.
Bai Bo, Director of the Information Department at Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Tang Jianfeng, a senior medical IT and data governance expert, focused on the practice and application of big data in healthcare. He provided an in-depth explanation of the prospects and challenges of applying medical big data across various operational areas, including clinical diagnosis and treatment, medical research, and hospital management, from the perspectives of its characteristics, clinical needs, and technical challenges. He pointed out that smart hospitals are not merely cold network devices and lines of code; rather, they should leverage the humanizing warmth of technology to tangibly impact every participant within the hospital ecosystem.
Following the symposium, accompanied by the hospital’s IT staff, the attendees visited and inspected the hospital’s data center, the remote operations and maintenance management environment at the training center, and the wireless nursing care environment in the wards of the Fourth Inpatient Department.
Healthcare is vital to the well-being of countless families and represents the most significant livelihood initiative. Looking ahead, H3C will continue to collaborate with its ecosystem partners and healthcare institutions, fulfilling its role and responsibility as a pioneer in smart hospitals. By driving the deep integration of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and big data into healthcare service scenarios, H3C aims to facilitate a comprehensive, intelligent transformation of the entire healthcare system, ranging from national public health platforms to community hospitals.