Three mountains that hinder the development of medical applications for wearable devices

At the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the World Mobile Communications Conference (WMC), various manufacturers introduced a variety of wearable devices. These wearable devices are characterized by their widespread use in the medical and health fields. However, there is still a lack of typical application cases for the health care applications of wearable devices. In this regard, Chen Rongjia, an analyst at CCID Consulting's Electronic Information Industry Research Center, believes that the lag in the construction of medical information systems, the lack of unified planning and standards, and the unsuccessful operation mechanism are the factors that mainly affect the development of the medical application market for wearable devices.

Medical information system construction is relatively lagging

Wearable device medical health applications need to be based on the construction of a relatively complete medical information system. In recent years, China's hospital information system has developed rapidly. No matter the country, hospital or software company has invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, but compared with other countries. In terms of China, the investment in hospital information systems is still insufficient.

In the global medical information system investment, single-institution information system investment accounts for about 3-5% of the hospital's annual income, and China's single-institution information system investment accounts for less than 1% of the hospital's annual income. Compared with the construction of information systems in other fields, the process of building medical information systems in China is relatively closed and backward, and there is a large gap in the construction of medical information systems in medical and health institutions. Among them, the construction of medical informatization in grassroots medical and health institutions is relatively backward. Some grassroots medical and health institutions do not have well-established medical and health-related information equipment and software systems. They do not have the basis for collecting standard medical data, which leads to no in primary health care institutions. The application basis for the vital information collected by the wearable device.

In other medical and health institutions that started early in the construction of medical information systems such as the top three hospitals, although the medical information system was laid out, the physical information collected by the hardware devices was not effectively utilized. If effective use of vital signs information is required, Using cloud computing and big data related technologies to analyze and utilize the physical information collected by wearable devices. However, at present, China's medical cloud and medical big data analysis applications are still few. Some cities have proposed the concept of medical cloud when building smart cities, but there is no typical case and successful experience on how to put cloud computing to the ground.

In the medical big data analysis, first of all, at the data level, China's accumulation of medical data is shorter than foreign countries. Some important medical data information, such as genetic and population health information databases, are in the construction stage. Secondly, the analysis technology level, China ICT companies are in the research and development stage. Although they have already achieved certain results, there are still some gaps compared with the big data analysis products released by world-renowned companies such as Google, IBM, EMC, Oracle, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, and Teradata. The application of wearable devices in the medical and health field is progressing slowly.

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