Multi-discipline contributes to the innovation of medical instruments

The diagnosis of many diseases requires professional instrument testing. The tenth academic seminar of the National Chinese Medicine Development Forum (PRC Forum) with the theme of “Key Issues and Frontiers for the Development of Chinese Medical Equipment IV Diagnosis” May 15-16 Held in Guangzhou. Experts at the conference appealed that in the era of big data, Chinese medicine should seize opportunities and take advantage of opportunities to strengthen cross-disciplinary collisions. Through the joint efforts of experts in TCM clinicians, engineering research, and information network technologies, promote the original innovation and instrumentation of traditional Chinese medicine. Industrial development.

The four technologies of observation, smelling, asking and cutting are the key links for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. They carry a wealth of theoretical connotation and profound practical experience in the long process of development. They are the basis for TCM differentiation and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. The four diagnostic instruments of traditional Chinese medicine are based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, using modern scientific and technological means to collect, analyze and process the four diagnostic information on which the diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine is based.

It is reported that Chinese scholars have obtained a number of achievements in researches such as pulse diagnosis instruments, tongue diagnosis instruments, and four diagnostic instruments since the introduction of four diagnostic instruments in the 1950s. According to statistics, at present there are about 200 varieties of Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment equipment.

The Pearl River Forum is a platform for the exchange of Chinese medicine established by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the People's Government of Guangdong Province since 2010. Yang Zhe, deputy director of the Department of Social Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology, stressed that the four diagnostics of Chinese medicine are very important foundations for the development of Chinese medicine, deepening and studying the major bottlenecks and development directions of the four diagnostic instruments of traditional Chinese medicine, and making forward-looking thinking on the future development of the four diagnostic instruments of traditional Chinese medicine. It is of great significance to promote the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine.

At present, the four medical diagnostic instruments have been simulated for the astronaut's health status monitoring and intervention. In the future, people can use the software in their mobile phones to monitor their own health status for preventive health care. Zhang Boli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, believes that Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment instruments should be integrated with computer information technology, electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, etc. under the guidance of "useful, practical, and easy to use" principles and theories of traditional Chinese medicine. Cross collision, play independent innovation, research and development of medical instruments with Chinese characteristics.

Just as telescopes allow us to experience the universe, microscopes allow us to observe microbes, and big data is changing the way we live and understand the world. Liu Baoyan, executive vice president of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, proposed to embrace big data and create a new situation in the research and development of Chinese medicine instruments. Western medicine has a lot of potential for big data. For example, the clinical effect of TCM academic schools is often based on the test of the full-sample effect of several generations of clinical practice, rather than the verification of accurate small data; TCM theory is an intervention measure and human health status. The elaboration of the relevant relationship answers the question of “what” in the balance of human health. It does not use the confirmation of the causal relationship to answer “why”; the era of big data will be a Chinese medicine with richer, more complex and more hierarchical information. Diagnostic equipment research provides more feasible methods and techniques.

Compared with familiar structural monitoring instruments such as B-mode ultrasonography and CT, the traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment instrument targeting functional monitoring will have far-reaching significance in extending Chinese medicine diagnosis methods, establishing an objective evaluation system for the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, and developing new drugs.

It is reported that the Chinese government has always attached importance to and supported the development of Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment equipment. Through the implementation of national "6th Five-Year" and "Seventh Five-Year" pulse diagnosis instruments, the first wave of objective research on pulse diagnosis has been greeted and developed. A variety of pulse diagnosis instruments with different properties have been used to verify the objectivity of TCM theory to a certain degree with modern scientific and technological means. During the "10th Five-Year Plan" national science and technology research project and the development of the National Natural Science Fund project, the main use of computer technology, new sensor technology and signal processing methods, researchers developed a new generation of pulse diagnostic equipment. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Science and Technology further launched the "Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Rehabilitation Equipment". The Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have attached great importance to the research of four clinics. Only in the last half year, four special conferences focused on this field.

It is understood that the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia and other countries have already conducted research in this area. Under the background of this international R&D, the participating experts unanimously appealed that China should seize new opportunities for the development of big data and modern technologies. At the forefront of international development, strengthen the research of new technologies and methods for Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment instruments; through original innovation, vigorously develop a number of instruments and equipment with independent intellectual property rights, integrate domestic strengths, strengthen multidisciplinary cooperation, and make unique contributions to human health medicine. .