Changsha, January 1 (Xinhua) -- Cai Jingjing, a "cardiovascular health guard": bow down to the grassroots for medical care
Written by Zhang Xueying
"The intelligent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk assessment system can significantly improve the screening ability of patients with medium- and high-risk chronic diseases, help rationally and effectively allocate medical resources, and reduce the long-term risks of patients with medium- and high-risk chronic diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to take the digital grid medical management model as the starting point to promote the construction of chronic disease treatment and health management capacity at the grassroots level. Cai Jingjing, a member of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said.
Cai Jingjing is the deputy director of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and the director of the Hunan Provincial Cardiovascular Disease Research Center, and has been selected as the "annual influence list" of the world's top 2% scientists for three consecutive years. How to benefit more patients through what she has learned in her profession is a question she has been thinking about for a long time.
Cai Jingjing instructed students to analyze experimental data. Photo by Zhang Xueying
Practicing medicine for many years, Cai Jingjing is deeply aware of the importance of treating chronic diseases at the grassroots level. According to the data she provided, 30% of the total number of people with hypertension in Hunan Province is counted, and if all people with hypertension need outpatient clinics in a community of 5,180 people, the number of such patients will reach <> per day, which greatly increases the burden on the medical system.
In the face of a huge population of chronic diseases, Cai Jingjing was inspired by the dynamic health code and dynamic itinerary code in the past. "By building an artificial intelligence model for chronic disease risk assessment, based on the blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid monitoring values uploaded by patients, low-risk patients are assigned green codes, medium-risk patients are assigned yellow codes, and high-risk patients are assigned red codes, which is conducive to the efficient use of medical resources and accurate diagnosis and treatment. ”
During the two sessions in Hunan in 2023, Cai Jingjing submitted a proposal on "Promoting the Treatment of Chronic Diseases and Health Management Capabilities at the Grassroots Level with the Digital Grid Medical Management Model as the Starting Point". After receiving a reply from the Hunan Provincial Health Commission, she and her team carried out pilot promotion in Changsha County, Wangyue Lake Community and Xianjiahu Community to build a digital management platform.
"Taking Changsha County as an example, through the establishment of a digital management platform, the standardized management rate of patients has increased from about 2018% in 40 to more than 70% in recent years, and the incidence of cardiovascular events has also shown a turning point in decline. Cai Jingjing said.
Cai Jingjing took the students on ward rounds. Photo by Zhang Xueying
Go to the grassroots, enter the community, and visit residents...... In order to serve the chronic disease population more accurately, Cai Jingjing has carried out the grassroots investigation of chronic diseases since she took office. In August 2023, his team released the first cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease prevention and control report in Hunan Province based on data from medical institutions, primary public health, medical insurance and disease control, "Summary of Cardiovascular Health and Disease Report in Hunan Province (8)", proposing that the integration of medical treatment and prevention should be accelerated, information silos should be eliminated, and health responsibilities should be implemented, so that medical resources can better benefit people from all walks of life.
As a member of the Democratic National Construction Association and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in the medical and health sector, Cai Jingjing also pays attention to the democratic supervision of the ecological and environmental protection of the Yangtze River. Last year, Cai Jingjing followed the Central Health and Medical Commission of the China Democratic National Construction Association to Junshan District, Yueyang City, to participate in the free clinic activity of "Caring for Retired Fishermen and Building a Healthy Defense Line", and finally set her sights on antibiotic pollution in the Yangtze River Basin.
"This year's Hunan Two Sessions, in addition to strengthening the proposal to optimize the prevention and control mode of major chronic diseases at the county level, I will also make suggestions on the monitoring and management of environmental pollution of antimicrobial drugs and the construction of an environmental-health system, hoping to guide the formulation of antimicrobial drug pollution emission and control standards by focusing on solving related problems. Cai Jingjing said. (ENDS)