Technological innovation helps dual carbon Yingkang promotes the green transformation of the health industry throughout his life

In 2014, the Joint Commission for Accreditation of International Healthcare Institutions (JCI) pointed out that low carbon is “a factor that hospitals must consider in the future.” Nowadays, with China's goal of "carbon peaking in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060", "low carbon" and "green" have increasingly become the development concepts of China's health industry. From the construction of diagnosis and treatment systems to the manufacture of medical kits, there are too many "gates" for carbon reduction in the health industry. As a leading enterprise in China's comprehensive health industry, Yingkang Lifespan, a comprehensive health ecological brand under Haier Group, is the leading low-carbon "breakthrough" in the industry.

Relying on Internet of Things technology, smart medical care, big data and comprehensive online and offline service capabilities, Yingkang has explored a green development path in line with the logic of the big health industry. The complete low-carbon concept and a series of carbon reduction measures are being effectively implemented in the company's two listed companies, Haier Biology and Yingkang Life, as well as the scene ecology of more than 20 hospitals across the country.

Leading the industry's carbon reduction transformation

Not long ago, Haier Biology was awarded the "2021-2022 Carbon Reduction Pioneer Enterprise". This heavy honor is an affirmation of Haier's biological low-carbon efforts. As an IoT biosafety technology ecological brand under Yingkang Lifespan, Haier Biology is also a low-carbon "pioneer" in China's life and health field.

Before proposing the “3060” carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals in September last year, Haier Biology had already regarded green development as an important principle of corporate operations and implemented it into product research and development and business development. . As of February 2021, many of the ultra-low temperature storage boxes produced by the company have obtained China's energy-saving certification and the U.S. Energy Star certification. In terms of multiple storage box specifications, Haier Biotechnology leads many internationally renowned brands in the number of products certified by the US Energy Star.

At the fourth Shanghai International Import Expo in November last year, Haier Biology once again "flexed its muscles" in low-carbon, energy-saving, environmental protection and other technical fields. At the conference, it displayed a variety of Stirling refrigeration prototypes such as integrated Stirling refrigerators. Stirling refrigeration technology is an advanced low-temperature refrigeration technology with the advantages of high reliability, light weight and long life. More importantly, compared with mainstream refrigeration technology, Stirling refrigeration has an excellent energy consumption ratio. According to data from Essence Securities, the energy consumption ratio of multiple products from overseas Stirling ultra-cooling manufacturers is more than 100 times higher than the same level of products from mainstream manufacturers.

In the context of carbon neutrality becoming the development goal of the entire industry, accelerating the industrialization of Stirling refrigeration technology is an inevitable choice for the development of the refrigeration industry. As the pace of industrialization accelerates, Stirling refrigeration technology will be widely used in low-temperature storage and transportation of vaccines, blood, biological samples, medicine and other industries, in low-temperature superconducting fields such as space CCD detection cooling, and in genetic engineering, biomedicine, and life sciences. Science and other low-temperature refrigeration fields will further promote the development of high-end instruments and equipment in the biosafety industry. Haier Biology has taken practical actions to lead the "low-carbon" transformation of China's cryogenic storage at the industry level.

Along with the export of products, Haier Biology is also exporting the "Haier Plan" of green and carbon reduction to the world. In recent years, Haier Biology has broken through the international patent blockade and created the first patented technology of "cold and heat storage combined constant temperature equipment and control method" on the solar vaccine refrigerator. Compared with foreign technology routes, the "solar direct-drive cold storage technology" pioneered by Haier Biotechnology can achieve 1.6 times the insulation efficiency of foreign brands using only 1/3 of the cold storage material. After a power outage at an ambient temperature of 43°C, the temperature inside the box is maintained The time at 2-8 is as long as 120 hours, far exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) regulations for maintaining refrigeration temperature for 72 hours, providing scientific and safe basic immune protection for global users, and creating a Chinese route for direct solar-driven cold storage technology .

At present, Haier Biosolar vaccine refrigerators have entered 78 countries and regions around the world. Related technologies serve 45 million school-age children around the world every year, promoting the immunization rate in low-income countries to increase from 30 in 2015 to 57. Helping 6.9 million children avoid dying from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Create a green IoT medical ecosystem

The Internet and big data technology are important driving forces for the green transformation of society. In October last year, the "Opinions on Completely, Accurately and Comprehensively Implementing the New Development Concept and Doing a Peak and Carbon Neutral Work" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council proposed to vigorously develop green and low-carbon industries and promote the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence Emerging technologies such as intelligence and fifth-generation mobile communications (5G) are deeply integrated with green and low-carbon industries. China's economic development requires more efficient resource utilization, and Chinese society needs to achieve green changes in production and lifestyle faster.

As a leading company in China's health industry, Yingkang has been committed to making green and low-carbon the foundation for the development of the health industry in recent years. In recent years, it has promoted new digital medical practices in many of its hospitals including Shanghai Yongci Rehabilitation Hospital, Sichuan Friendship Hospital, Yuncheng First Hospital, Suzhou Guangci Cancer Hospital, and Shanghai Yingkang Nursing Home.

In April last year, the Sichuan Friendship Hospital Internet Hospital operated by Yingkang Lifetime was officially launched. That month, the hospital completed its first 5G remote consultation for tumors; in May, the hospital's 5G remote consultation center successfully carried out the first multidisciplinary remote consultation (MDT); in September, Sichuan Friendship Hospital carried out remote surgical consultation and remote surgical demonstration for the first time. teach. The diagnosis and treatment model without leaving home can not only solve the problem of patients being far away and difficult to see a doctor "from a distance", saving time and economic costs for both doctors and patients, but also helping China's transportation emission reduction. Data shows that transportation emissions currently account for about 10.4% of China's total carbon emissions, making it a "big user" of resource consumption and carbon emissions.

During the 2010 World Expo, Lu Benfu, then deputy dean of the School of Management of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of the China Information Economics Society, once put forward an interesting point of view: When connecting every nerve ending in the city, Only when the Internet is upgraded to the "Internet of Things" can cities become more low-carbon. This conclusion for urban low-carbon development is still valid today when it is extended to the health industry: when every aspect of health products and services implements the "Internet of Things", the health industry can become even more low-carbon.

As one of Yingkang’s core efforts to develop the green health industry throughout its life, the low-carbon nature of Internet of Things technology is fully reflected in Yingkang’s nursing business. Today, the smart elderly care service platform project that Yingkang's nursing homes have been building for many years has become the vanguard of its implementation of the Internet of Things strategy. The smart elderly care service platform aims to use the Internet of Things, intelligent hardware and artificial intelligence to provide intelligent, scientific and humanized care services for the elderly. The platform uses intelligent terminal hardware to collect the elderly's vital signs data, surrounding environment data, etc. in real-time and in multiple dimensions. Through intelligent analysis algorithms, it obtains the elderly's real service needs, making it easier for service personnel to view and process them in a timely manner.

In addition, Yingkang Lifespan’s hospitals also successfully developed the rehabilitation robot IoT Port using Internet of Things technology. This is China’s first rehabilitation robot IoT port, which requires only three therapists to treat 40 people. Compared with the labor-intensive traditional rehabilitation business, labor costs are greatly saved.

The addition of Internet of Things elements enables Yingkang Lifelong’s elderly care and rehabilitation business to efficiently integrate and utilize social resources, information resources and health data in a targeted manner, so that relevant services can achieve "people doing their best" ”, “Make the best use of everything”. Accurate matching and disposal efficiency can effectively save social resources and reduce carbon emissions in the business process.