Can computers do medicine?

Computers by themselves cannot treat patients. At present, computers are only used to assist doctors.

Now, the artificial intelligence that scientists are studying also includes this field.

Transfer from: Cifang Traditional Chinese Medicine Network

A model of the combination of medicine and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science, and its long-term goal is the machine realization of artificial intelligence. After more than half a century's development, artificial intelligence has produced a large number of theoretical achievements and been widely used. Artificial intelligence is a mysterious and realistic topic. It is mysterious because it is incredible to most people, impacting human behavior, thinking and values, and making human feel a negative threat; The reason why it is realistic is that its performance in many fields has been comparable to that of human beings and even surpassed that of human beings.

Cifang Digital Medical Doctor Service System is a software product specially developed by Beijing Cifang Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (www.cifang.com) for clinicians in hospitals, clinics and other medical institutions. It is the crystallization of the combination of medicine and artificial intelligence. It consists of databases and applications. The database includes hundreds of thousands of pieces of medical information, and the application program is written according to the achievements of thinking science. You only need to input the patient's necessary disease information in its client, and its server will give you a high-level diagnosis and treatment plan after complicated calculation. According to the preliminary calculation, Cifang digital medical service system needs to calculate about 1 100 million steps for each feedback treatment plan. The system will allow patients to enjoy the best medical service at the least cost. Because patients don't have to run around, they can receive treatment through the internet at home, so they save a lot of non-medical expenses, such as travel expenses, accommodation fees and so on. Because the scheme given by Cifang digital medical doctor service system is efficient, it will shorten the diagnosis and treatment time of patients, reduce the pain of patients and reduce the diagnosis and treatment cost of patients. Shorten the growth process of doctors. Generally speaking, it takes decades for young doctors who have just graduated to grow into famous doctors. Famous doctors have grown up for too long. With the help of Cifang digital medical doctor service system, young doctors can master huge medical experience in a short time, reaching the level equivalent to decades of clinical experience. The system solves the problem of shortage of social famous doctor resources. Doctors who can be called "famous doctors" are rare in society after all, and the resources of famous doctors are extremely short compared with the needs of patients. It provides rich resources of famous doctors for different levels of hospitals and solves the problem of shortage of famous doctors in hospitals.

Cifang's digital medical service system reminds people of computer chess. On June 8th, the first chess game "Man-Machine Game" in China kicked off. One side of the competition is Miss Zhu Chen, an international grandmaster, and the other side is the "Purple Star" computer. In the first round, Zhu Chen lost to "Purple Star". In the second game of June 12, Zhu Chen lost to his opponent again. The database of "Purple Star" is said to contain more than two million chess books, and its calculation amount is more than 200 million times per second. From this example, we can see that computer artificial intelligence technology has one thing that the human brain can't do. Its advantages are large amount of information, accurate call and fast operation speed. It should be emphasized that in the chess man-machine war, the relationship between computer and human is antagonistic. However, when the Cifang digital medical service system helps doctors to serve patients, the relationship between the service system and people is cooperative.

Of course, it would be very one-sided, extreme and ridiculous to think that computers can completely replace the human brain in the medical field. We can divide the work in the medical field into inheritance and development. "Cifang Digital Medical Service System" only undertakes the work of inheritance, and cannot replace human development medicine. The problem of development can only be solved by human creative thinking.

At present, the business of medical information processing with electronic computers at home and abroad includes:

(1) Hospital Administration: 1, Financial Management. Responsible for financial revenue and expenditure business such as bonus flow, salary payment and patient expenses. , and can input and output in Chinese. 2. Material management. Manage the statistics, registration, use, maintenance and update of all kinds of movable property, real estate and medical research instruments and equipment. List the purchasing plan of various materials, and report the use and consumption. 3. Personnel file management. Store technical files and resumes of employees, search and output according to various requirements, and take safety measures when necessary. 4, outpatient and inpatient management. Responsible for daily affairs, such as registration, bed management, fees, accounting and receipts.

(2) Medical statistics: 1. Store the business data of various departments in the hospital. 2. Daily, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports issued by the Ministry of Health are automatically compiled and printed on time. 3, flexible retrieval function, can according to the department, date, disease name or specified conditions to find out the corresponding information. 4. Prepare temporary charts according to the requirements of statisticians.

(3) Medical record management: The content includes automatically collecting symptoms, constantly increasing relevant information, forming a complete medical record, and storing it according to different needs.

(4) Pharmacy management: Computerized pharmacy management can grasp the inventory and consumption of various drugs, print out the list and pricing of drugs to be purchased in time, control the dosage, and supervise contraindications, allergic reactions and inappropriate drug compatibility.

(5) Laboratory system: This is the most common computer clinical use. Foreign countries have designed very advanced systems. The final solution of this kind of problem is closely related to the automation degree of special equipment.

(6) Medical image and data processing: The research on automatic analysis and auxiliary diagnosis of ECG, EEG and X-ray films by computer has a history of more than 20 years in the world. Computer-aided X-ray tomography (CT) is the most prominent application of computer in medical image processing. At present, it has developed from brain detection to whole body detection, which is another major breakthrough in nuclear medicine since Roentgen discovered X-rays. Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has developed rapidly abroad in recent years, and there are many fields that have been developed and are being developed in other medical images and data processing, which are not described in detail here.

(7) Medical expert system: This is an active field of computer application in Chinese medicine, and many programs have appeared, some of which have been put into clinical application. At present, it seems that the medical decision-making made by computer is mainly to provide reference opinions for doctors, which appears as a consulting system. It is an assistant to the doctor, not a substitute for the doctor. As far as its purpose is concerned, it is not only to make a diagnosis, but also to make a treatment plan, supervise and adjust the treatment process, choose the most suitable drugs and predict the development of the disease.

(8) Hospital information system: Such a system requires large computer equipment. A system usually includes an automatic device to receive patients and conduct preliminary investigations. When a patient enters the hospital, the patient's computer-based medical records exist through this automatic device. At this time, the patient's medical record becomes a center of information flow, and the corresponding data of hospital services, laboratory tests, pharmacies and wards are stored in this center. When the system receives the command (this command is also allowed to be expressed in natural language), it will transmit the diagnosis, treatment and nursing instructions, and carry out the corresponding activities to serve the patients.

(9) Information processing in preventive medicine: According to the consideration of preventive medicine, it is of great significance to identify those early and latent diseases in a large number of people by means of screening. Various forms of health examination aim to determine whether some seemingly healthy people need further medical attention through a series of tests and examinations. Computer technology is widely used in many foreign health examination centers, and it is used to collect data in most cases.

(X) Computer-aided medical education: Foreign countries have developed and medical students can benefit from it. The development of modern medicine inevitably requires teaching by modern means.

(1 1) Medical computer network: The common goal of computer network is to limit cross-region, increase access frequency, enjoy resources, reduce costs, increase knowledge and improve reliability.

(12) Medical Information Center: The development of modern science has brought explosive growth of information. In order to adapt to this situation, large foreign computer information centers have reached the stage of popularization and application. The system has large database capacity, various types, rich content, strong retrieval function, diverse service modes and extremely convenient use. This is because the database has been commercialized, scaled, diversified and standardized.