China News Service, Wuhan, June 18 (Bao Jie, Li Liuyi) The China-ASEAN Public Health and Telemedicine Cooperation Forum was held in Wuhan Tongji Hospital on the 17th.

Relevant persons in charge of Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, National Major Public Health Incident Medical Center and Wuhan Tongji Hospital attended.

Experts from China and Thailand shared and exchanged views on topics such as the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention and control of new coronary pneumonia through video connections.

  This forum relies on the National Major Public Health Event Medical Center and is conducted in the form of a combination of "online + offline".

It aims to strengthen the communication and cooperation of digital technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence in the fields of remote diagnosis and treatment, auxiliary diagnosis, and public health system construction, and use digital means to improve the ability to respond to major public health incidents and the level of medical treatment, and promote cooperation ASEAN jointly builds a community of human health.

Photo by Qi Jiandong at the forum

  In his speech, Liu Zheng, deputy dean of Wuhan Tongji Hospital, said that in the face of the new crown pneumonia epidemic that is raging around the world, no country can stand alone. It is of great significance for countries to share epidemic prevention and control information, assist medical supplies, and carry out medical research cooperation.

"We hope to use this forum as an opportunity to strengthen the connection with ASEAN countries in the fields of public health and digital medical care, and help build the'Healthy Silk Road'."

He says.

  It is understood that in the next step, the National Major Public Health Event Medical Center, with Wuhan Tongji Hospital as the main body, will deepen normalized cooperation with ASEAN countries in basic medical and health scientific research, talent training, innovative applications, and achievement transformation. Special training and exchanges will be carried out on health incident management, emergency medical integration construction, and public health system construction to create conditions for building a China-ASEAN public health (medical) cooperation platform.

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