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Most high-quality medical resources are concentrated in urban areas and tend to be much scarcer in remoter locations. When COVID-19 hit China, the traditional healthcare infrastructure in Henan couldn’t meet the needs of people cut off from tier-1 medical services. However, telemedicine proved invaluable in closing the gap.
By Xu Shenglan and Li Qiwei
Huawei is a standing member of the China Telemedicine Committee and has built up a broad array of related solutions and mature applications, including an HD video conference system that forms the foundation of the telemedicine system.
Back in 2011, Huawei teamed up with China Mobile Henan to develop the top-level design for building a telemedicine platform and a joint innovation center for healthcare big data for the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (FAHZU), putting in place the ICT infrastructure for a telemedicine system and creating the blueprint for its adoption in Henan Province.
The NTCC is a collaborative medical service platform that mainly serves as an inter-hospital data switching platform and includes a video conferencing system. It offers multiple capabilities spanning communication, emergency command, remote consultation, imaging data transmission for remote diagnosis, and remote training. It also includes a remote ECG diagnosis and monitoring center, as well as a remote clinic and precision medicine center.
The NTCC has set a benchmark for telemedicine in China. It carries out 80 to 160 integrated consultations per day, including imaging, medical record analysis, and department-level consultations. Each year the center conducts 40,000 remote integrated consultations; diagnoses 500,000 cases for specialist units, which includes remote pathology, ECG, and imaging; hosts 300 training sessions for more than 400,000 medical personnel; and streams more than 1,000 demo surgeries.