Lilly China and Microsoft China reach strategic cooperation | Artificial intelligence empowers medical innovation

Lilly China actively promotes artificial intelligence, innovative applications of cloud computing in the field of medical and health, through strategic cooperation with Microsoft China, actively explores technological innovation to improve patient life, promotes communication between doctors and patients, empowers employees, and optimizes business processes.

September 18, 2018, Shanghai - Lilly China and Microsoft China reached a strategic partnership based on Lilly's leading market position and industry insights in the healthcare industry, as well as forward-looking exploration in the field of digital innovation, combined with Microsoft's cutting-edge labor Intelligent technology, cloud computing services and ecosystem advantages, jointly promote the broad cooperation between the two parties in the service, technology and market areas, and create a new ecosystem of artificial intelligence + medical health. Julie Gay, President and General Manager of Lilly China (Julio Gay) -Ger), Microsoft Global Senior Vice President, Greater China Chairman and CEO Alain Crozier and other guests attended the signing ceremony of strategic cooperation between the two parties.

Lilly China and Microsoft China reached a strategic cooperation signing on-site guests photo

Julio Gay-Ger, President and General Manager of Lilly China, said: 'As an international pharmaceutical company with more than 140 years of history, Eli Lilly is committed to meeting the needs of patients and markets by providing innovative medicines and support services. People's life is better. This year is the 100th anniversary of Lilly's entry into China. With the philosophy of 'rooting China, benefiting China' and its commitment to Chinese patients and society, Lilly will continue to strengthen innovation and external cooperation to bring patients High-quality, personalized treatment solutions and support services. At present, artificial intelligence has risen to national strategy, and health care is one of the most promising areas of artificial intelligence applications. Lilly is willing to actively promote artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc. in medical Innovative applications in the field of health, through strategic cooperation with Microsoft, to explore the use of technological innovation to empower medical care, to help the implementation of the 'Health China 2030' planning outline, and ultimately benefit the majority of patients.

Julio Gay-Ger, President and General Manager of Lilly China

Alain Crozier, senior vice president of Microsoft and chairman and CEO of Greater China, said: 'From the world to China, Microsoft is very excited to work with leading companies in various industries to actively explore different technologies. The digital transformation of the industry. Lilly is a company that actively embraces innovation and is committed to building a better future for humanity. Microsoft is very honored to have a strategic cooperation with Lilly. Through strategic cooperation with Lilly, we will work together with our partners. Discover the strengths and potential of Microsoft's artificial intelligence, Azure cloud services, Office 365 and other products and services to create a new benchmark for digital transformation in the healthcare industry.

Alain Crozier, Senior Vice President, Global Greater China, Chairman and CEO, Greater China

Leading the digital transformation of the medical industry to become a health solution provider

On April 28, 2018, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Development of 'Internet + Medical Health'", officially blew the horn of 'Smart Medicine, Healthy China', and promoted and supported the development of 'Internet + Medical Health'. It is mainly based on artificial intelligence technology, mobile medical demonstration of medical health smart devices, thus realizing real-time monitoring and evaluation of personal health, disease warning, chronic disease screening, active intervention, etc.

'Internet + medical health' The new service model and new format provide opportunities and challenges for the transformation of the entire medical industry, and also set the platform and trend for the digital transformation of medical care. In this regard, Lilly actively embraces change and takes the lead. The digital transformation, transforming itself from the 'drug development and production supply side' to the new role of 'health integrated solution provider', and focusing on the application of digital traditional platform, independent value platform construction and ecological circle cooperation Orientation layout.

In the application of digital traditional platform, Lilly is the main goal of innovation in work style and work efficiency. It carries out the eP2P online conference mode, improves the doctor's conference platform, and allows academic exchanges to break through the space 'limitation' and enhance the dissemination of cutting-edge medical knowledge. In terms of efficiency and breadth; in the construction of independent value platform, Lilly has innovatively launched the diabetes management app for patients, 'Diabetes Heartland', with cumulative downloads exceeding one million; one-stop doctor service platform for doctors iDoctor' is convenient for online communication, interaction, and service with doctors. In terms of eco-cooperation, Lilly and Tencent, Lilac Park have joined forces to create a seamless integrated diabetes management solution - 'Excellent The Diabetes Care Project, based on the development of mobile internet technology, helps doctors optimize medical treatment and help patients achieve treatment goals by providing high-quality medicines, pioneering technologies and customized services.

Eli Lilly China's vice president of information technology and CIO Bai Liuchen said: 'As a pioneer in the digital transformation of the medical industry, Lilly has never stopped the prospect of forward-looking exploration. The strategic cooperation with Microsoft is to give play to their respective advantages. Artificial intelligence and cloud service solutions to provide better medical solutions for doctors and patients. In the future, Lilly's integrated disease management solutions aim to bring drugs and treatments, smart devices, internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence The Care Center service is integrated to integrate big data and artificial intelligence into all aspects of disease management, providing personalized two-way services for doctors and patients, thus making the whole process of disease management more effective.

Lilly White China Vice President and CIO Bai Liuchen

Join forces to create 'artificial intelligence + medical health' new ecology

The strategic cooperation between Lilly and China and Microsoft China will focus on the following aspects: Using Microsoft artificial intelligence, cloud computing technology to jointly explore the application of artificial intelligence in medical imaging and disease screening; using natural language processing, dialogue robot , knowledge mapping and other technologies, development of physician interaction services, patient support and education and staff efficiency improvement applications; use of natural language processing, machine translation to support the richness and timeliness of medical content; enterprise-level office automation applications to enhance staff efficiency Etc; Microsoft Azure will also play an important role in the implementation of the application system.

At the same time, Lilly, as a member of the Microsoft Asia Research Institute, has established regular technical exchanges and cooperation mechanisms with Microsoft. Microsoft's top artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and technical experts will be active with experts in the Lilly Information Technology Department. Communication and close cooperation, through the promotion of the combination of technological innovation and industrial demand, comprehensively promote the application of technological innovation in the field of medical health.

With Microsoft's partners in the healthcare industry, initial cooperation has made initial progress: In order to achieve early detection of disease, early treatment, help patients improve their quality of life and reduce treatment costs, Lilly China plans to use the labor developed by Microsoft partner Airdoc Intelligent screening solution for early detection of disease by automating the analysis of patient medical imaging data. This program is based on the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Deep Learning Framework and runs on Microsoft Smart Cloud Azure, which significantly enhances major disease screens. Check the accuracy and efficiency.

In addition, Lilly China and Microsoft China partner Beyondsoft collaborated to explore the implementation and landing of the intelligent dialogue robot system based on the Microsoft Understanding Service's Semantic Understanding Service (LUIS), Robot Framework and QnA Maker services. Perfect artificial intelligence service, the whole development process does not need to write code, can complete the robot customization work that integrates a lot of medical expertise. This system is designed to effectively improve the service response speed and experience, and save a lot of labor costs and liberate productivity. The system is intended to complement the work of thousands of pharmaceutical representatives and extends to a wider range of applications including IT services, employee services, and customer support.

This strategic cooperation has concentrated on the core competitiveness of the two sides in the traditional pharmaceutical field and cutting-edge science and technology. It shows the new possibilities of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the medical and health fields, and also opened up for the partner ecosystem. A broader market opportunity. As the cooperation between the two parties continues to deepen, it will bring more innovations, improve patient life, promote communication between doctors and patients, empower employees, optimize business processes, and promote digital transformation of the healthcare industry. To play a more active role. In the future, 'Artificial Intelligence + Health Care' will provide doctors and patients with more comprehensive integrated medical solutions, so that multiple subjects can benefit together and make medical care better!