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Chapter 544 Supervision Arrives, Win-Win Cooperation

With the establishment of the diagnostic kiosk project, Sanqing officially entered the field of IVD such as blood testing and biochemical testing.

IVD is the abbreviation of in vitro diagnostic products, including equipment, instruments, reagents and medicines, etc., with a wide range of products and a huge market. The world has already exceeded [-] billion US dollars. It is the most important board and the largest segment of the medical device industry. market.

Compared with other products, it has one of the biggest advantages, that is, the reagents that account for 80% of the market are purely consumables and need to be continuously purchased.

The production cost of reagents is extremely low, so in many cases, equipment companies will give away IVD equipment for free, just to allow hospitals to use their reagents.

This piece of cake is mainly monopolized by the four giants of foreign capital. Roche, Abbott, Danaher, and Siemens account for 74% of the global market share, and the remaining 16% is shared by other IVD companies.

Over the past decades, terminal hospitals have changed from manual to semi-automatic, fully automatic, intelligent, and digital; from ELISA to immunochromatography, time resolution, and chemiluminescence; from manual PCR to ordinary PCR, fluorescent quantitative PCR, digital PCR to nucleic acid The all-in-one detection machine, next-generation sequencing, and single-molecule sequencing can be said to be shotguns, constantly upgrading.

The rapid development of domestic hospitals has also allowed domestic IVD companies to embark on a high-speed train. They cannot be said to keep pace with the four giants of Royadanxi, but they can also be said to catch up. The gap is getting closer.

However, it is mainly the overall scale of domestic IVD companies that has caught up. As far as individual companies are concerned, there has not yet been an IVD company that can compete with the four giants.

Roche's annual diagnostic business revenue is nearly 1400 billion, which is already the annual revenue of 60 listed IVD companies in China.

Mindray Medical, the listed company with the largest domestic diagnostic business volume, has just reached [-] billion in annual revenue, which is probably equivalent to Roche's one month.

If Weikang wants to lower the price of medical treatment, apart from medicines, he can only start with in vitro diagnosis.

After all, when a patient goes to the hospital, he or she has to do a set of blood tests no matter what happens or not. If the condition is more complicated, a set of comprehensive checks will cost thousands of dollars.

Even if the patient does not prescribe medicine and is not hospitalized, the cost of the examination cannot be saved, otherwise no doctor dares to diagnose the patient.

Patients often complain on the Internet, saying that they feel unwell and go to the hospital to see a doctor.

In the end, holding a bunch of checklists, I ran up and down the hospital, taking blood, testing, CT, everything was done, and then waiting for the results to come out. It took a total of five hours, but in the end, only a few dozen yuan of cold medicine was prescribed. just went home.

The patient was so angry that he cursed the hospital for cheating money.

This kind of situation is very common. Go to the hospital for a blood test. If it is a routine blood test, it usually only costs 20 yuan a time, but if you also test liver and kidney function, blood sugar, blood lipids, etc., it will cost four to five hundred yuan for a blood test.

For ordinary people, it is still too high.

After all, those who can go to see a doctor have more or less problems. Just check the blood routine, and there are too few items to check. Logically speaking, blood sugar, blood lipids, liver and kidney function and other biochemical indicators must also be checked together to have a more comprehensive result. diagnosis.

If these checks can be done for dozens of dollars, then the number of people who are willing to do a comprehensive blood test will greatly increase, and the probability of discovering other diseases will also be greatly increased.

If Chinese people can get reimbursed by medical insurance, they only spend 300 yuan a year for a comprehensive and in-depth physical examination, including whole-body CT, liver, kidney, lung, heart, brain and other organ examinations, early screening of common cancers, etc. Many diseases can be detected early , do a good job in early prevention and treatment.

If you have special needs, you can do a simple genetic test for genetic diseases for yourself and your loved ones.

When you are free, you can monitor your physical status at any time through the smart watch.

If you feel unwell, you can immediately spend dozens of yuan to do a full set of blood biochemical index checks, and treat any problems in time.

Everyone will know their physical condition well, and it will be easy to maintain long-term health.

This kind of all-round health monitoring is what Weikang imagines for the future of medical care.

Not only can people highly recognize the medical concept of health management, early prevention, and early treatment, but it can also be realized at low cost, thereby improving the quality of life, prolonging life, and increasing happiness.

Of course, to do this is far beyond the capabilities of one or two pharmaceutical companies, and requires reform of the entire medical system.

No matter what, Weikang will do his best to advance bravely on this road and constantly promote the emergence of change.

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In the capital city, Wang Guiqing walked into a conference room leisurely.

There are a group of experts and consultants in various fields, including medical experts, economic experts, computer experts, network experts, and biological experts.

After saying hello one by one, he found his seat and drank tea slowly.

At exactly nine o'clock, Mr. Tan walked in with a flushed face.

"Very well, I called everyone here today to discuss one thing."

"Sanqing's artificial intelligence has already had a series of impacts in society. Although it is currently limited to the field of medical diagnosis, it has shown unparalleled potential."

"In fact, the artificial intelligence boom is emerging all over the world. This is a brand-new technological track. Our entrepreneurs are also working hard in their respective fields. It is conceivable that in the future, there will be a state of blooming flowers."

"At present, AI has shown amazing productivity in the field of painting and office work. We should also discuss how to face this surging wave of artificial intelligence."

"In the era of the barbaric growth of the Internet, our supervision of the Internet was relatively slow and we did not have much experience. Now, we should learn the lesson and include it in the supervision when AI is just emerging, so as to create a healthy development environment."

“You are all experts in your field, and sooner or later your field of work will be affected by artificial intelligence, so please speak up and express your opinions.”

Tan Lao described the theme of the meeting, and after some discussion, everyone reached a consensus.

That is, the supervision of artificial intelligence is imperative, and the opinions of the public must be solicited to continuously improve according to the actual situation.

"The rise of artificial intelligence is unstoppable. We must embrace the future of this technology. Under flexible and reasonable supervision, we must implement AI in various production fields as soon as possible, so as to seize the opportunity in the competition of the new era and not fall behind. .”

"Currently, the regulation of artificial intelligence around the world is still in the process of being gradually constructed and clarified. We also need to explore an artificial intelligence governance route that suits our national conditions."

"The main regulatory focus is on the authenticity of AI-generated content, personal privacy, intellectual property rights, information protection, risk prevention, and the legality of data sources."

"As long as the rules of safety supervision are determined, the development of the artificial intelligence industry must be boosted under flexible management, and enterprises will be encouraged to explore in various aspects, reasonable needs and applications, and enhance investor confidence."

"We should conform to the characteristics of rapid iteration of artificial intelligence, explore hierarchical governance and sandbox management models, constantly check for leaks and fill in gaps, and improve on the existing basis."

Tan Lao smiled and nodded, very satisfied with everyone's summary of the strategy.

"Yes, this is the regulatory approach I need, and it should be enough for most artificial intelligence products."

"So, next, let's talk about a special case."

"That is Sanqing's diagnostic AI. As we all know, the medical system is completely different from the mass consumer market. We may need to tailor a regulatory plan for Sanqing."

The experts here look at me and I look at you, with a flash of horror in their eyes.

Sanqing actually made Tanlao make an exception and took out special care alone, which shows the important position in his heart.

Old Tan looked around, smiled and said, "How about it, what do you guys think?"

An expert looked dignified, and said in a deep voice.

"Diagnostic AI is a big killer for the medical field, and it is unique to our country. There is no competing product abroad. There is also a considerable gap in technology with other AI products. This is our biggest advantage. Naturally, Doing everything in your power to provide support is what will keep this advantage going.”

The others nodded sympathetically.

"Now the whole country is building a medical big data center. We have accumulated a lot of data, and Sanqing has the best algorithms and models. We can cooperate with Sanqing for a win-win situation. This is the best solution."

"Yes, the medical data of 14 billion people will be connected to the hospital, and the medical classification system will be perfectly realized, which will be of great benefit to the medical system."

"Isn't it always said that there are not enough doctors, too tired and too busy? Then assigning each of them a personal assistant should relieve the strain on medical resources."

"Hehe, we don't even have personal assistants in our group, so we should match up with the doctors first, which is worthy of their efforts."

"It's a good idea. It can be implemented as a pilot in some hospitals first, and then decide whether to promote it after seeing the effect."

The more everyone talked, the more excited they were, and they all felt that diagnostic AI has great potential in the medical field.

At this time, Wang Guiqing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interrupted.

"I think, should the person involved be involved in the discussion together, maybe he has his own ideas, and he can make it clear in person, so that the subsequent implementation will be easier."

Old Tan nodded approvingly: "That makes sense, but I'm a little hasty today. I wonder if Xiaowei is free?"

Wang Guiqing took out his mobile phone: "Call him and ask him, and you'll know."

After Wei Kang received the call, he was a little surprised, but he agreed immediately because he felt that this was an excellent opportunity.

It is absolutely possible to express some of my thoughts on future medical care in public and discuss with everyone in advance.

In other words, it is called carrying private goods and exporting them crazily.

With Wei Kang joining, the atmosphere suddenly became lively.

These experts have more or less taken Sanqing's medicines and used Sanqing's equipment, and they all have a little curiosity about him, a legend, so they are naturally very excited to communicate with each other in person.

Under the enquiry, Wei Kang talked eloquently and confessed everything one by one.

Not only did he explain the functions and applications of diagnostic AI in detail, but he also introduced the brand-new diagnostic kiosk project. At the same time, he also gave a key explanation of his medical concept of combining software and hardware, early diagnosis and early treatment.

Everyone was dazzled and applauded repeatedly.

"If you think about it carefully, it is really feasible and can completely solve more than half of the medical problems."

"President Wei really deserves to be a genius in heaven, he can think of such an idea."

"This is the people's entrepreneur who truly serves the country and the people."

"If it can really reduce the proportion of severe patients in the middle and late stage, how much money can the medical insurance save?"

"If the diagnostic kiosk is used in conjunction with a pharmacy in a rural or township, it will be a killer."

"It's a very genius idea. What's even more rare is that Sanqing has the ability to realize this idea and is willing to work hard for it."

Just imagining the prospects of this plan after it is implemented, everyone's breathing stopped for a second in an instant.

There was a buzzing sound in the conference room, and everyone was whispering and talking, and everyone was very excited.

Even Tan Lao's eyes shone with joy, and he smiled from ear to ear.

"If the century-old problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment is really solved, it will definitely be one of the brightest achievements during my term of office."

"This plan will leave a strong mark in the history of China, and it's nothing more than leaving a name in history."

At this moment, everyone is captivated by the bright future described by Wei Kang and is intoxicated by it.

"Ahem," Wang Guiqing is one of the rare ones to stay awake. Maybe he has gotten used to the miracles created by Wei Kang one after another, so he is emotionally stable. Taking this opportunity, he said: "Mr. The issue of regulating AI was discussed."

"Sanqing's diagnostic AI is a special case, and we plan to do something special and make the most flexible supervision."

"Because of the particularity of the medical industry, we also hope that the two sides can cooperate to pilot it in some hospitals first, and then promote it to the whole country."

"When it comes to cooperation, we have built a lot of medical big data centers across the country, which are very effective. If Sanqing can use these data and connect them to the medical system, it will be even more powerful."

"What are your thoughts over there?"

Hearing this, Wei Kang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, remembering the graphics card crisis he was facing, and he was instantly overjoyed.

This is sending a pillow when you are sleepy. If you can get through the data of the national medical system, he will not have to work hard to keep the data for the user, which can save a lot of computing power.

When it comes to protecting privacy and data security, what better place than an official medical data center.

He quickly agreed: "Great, Sanqing is currently encountering a shortage of computing power and storage, and you are simply sending charcoal in a timely manner."

"Your ideas are right. We should indeed select a batch of hospitals for pilot projects first. If the feedback is good, we can then promote it in an all-round way. During this process, we can also optimize the data and algorithms, and iterate continuously to improve the experience of patients and doctors. .”

"Working together, the two sides will definitely be able to realize the grand goal of national medical care as soon as possible and solve the public's health problems."

"Okay, okay, Xiaowei, what you said is very good. With the light of an entrepreneur like you, why worry about Huaxia not achieving a great revival and standing on top of the world again."

Tan Lao was full of praise for Wei Kang's attitude, and was so excited that even a few beards under his jaw trembled.

"That's it. There are still some detailed rules that we will continue to discuss and improve. We will try to finalize them within two days."

With Tan Lao's final decision, the subsequent development became very rapid.

A week later, the government officially announced the white paper on artificial intelligence supervision.

At the same time, it also announced the joint efforts of the two parties to open up the medical big data platform and conduct pilot projects in the first batch of hospitals.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shocked.

(End of this chapter)