{"id":38171,"date":"2020-03-28T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=38171"},"modified":"2020-03-28T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:52:53","slug":"global-medixchange-of-combating-covid-19-gmcc-program-eyes-to-enable-sharing-among-medical-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/03\/28\/global-medixchange-of-combating-covid-19-gmcc-program-eyes-to-enable-sharing-among-medical-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Global MediXchange of Combating Covid-19 (GMCC) program eyes to enable sharing among medical personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over 440 medical institutions from 104 countries and regions\u00a0have applied to learn and share experiences in battling COVID-19 through the\u00a0International Medical Expert Communication Platform<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The platform, a centerpiece of the Global MediXchange for Combating COVID-19 (GMCC)<\/a> program, was jointly established by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation. It is designed for medical experts around the world to communicate seamlessly with each other to share their invaluable experience of fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to ask and answer each other\u2019s questions. To date, the most applications have come in thus far from medical institutions in the U.S, Turkey, the U.K., Pakistan, Spain and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical staff need to apply and be approved to join the platform. Once they\u2019re accepted, they\u2019re free to participate in individual or group discussions and sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKnowledge is power! We launched an online platform for doctors and nurses around the world to exchange ideas, lessons and know-how to fight the virus. We welcome all hospitals to join Chinese hospitals on this open platform\u00a0https:\/\/covid-19.alibabacloud.com<\/a>. One world, one fight,\u201d\u00a0Jack Ma wrote in a\u00a0tweet\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tapping Alibaba Group\u2019s DingTalk messaging and communications functions, the digital platform\u00a0provides\u00a0free audio and video conference\u00a0functionality, along with\u00a0live broadcast\u00a0functions for more-complex scenarios. Medical workers from different countries can choose to communicate with their fellow doctors individually, or they can participate in live-sharing group sessions to interact with multiple participants, using\u00a0real-time artificial intelligence translation\u00a0to overcome communication barriers.\u00a0The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), for example, has been using the platform\u00a0to share their valuable experience with 92 medical institutions from 44 countries and regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0playback\u00a0function allows further sharing or posting on official websites for consumption anytime \u2013 and\u00a0for those who can\u2019t join the live broadcasts due to the time difference or if they are occupied by their duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, the International Medical Expert Communication Platform has attracted numerous Chinese medical institutions, including\u00a0Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University\u00a0(Wuhan Leishenshan Hospital), The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine(FAHZU),\u00a0 and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through video conferencing and AI translation from and into 11 languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese), the platform aims to build a virtual community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DingTalk, which powers this platform, has also been tabbed by\u00a0UNESCO\u00a0\u00a0as facilitating distance learning during the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also as part of the GMCC program, the\u00a0Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment<\/a>, authored by the First Affiliate Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine and complied according to clinical experience, is now available at no cost and in seven languages:\u00a0Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish.\u00a0This handbook provides comprehensive guidelines and best practices by China’s top experts for coping with COVID-19. More languages will be added soon, as the GMCC program continues to launch more anti-epidemic resources and provide more practical suggestions and references for medical staff worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Medical staff need to apply and be approved to join the platform. Once they\u2019re accepted, they\u2019re free to participate in individual or group discussions and sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4259,7094,7081,96,2727],"class_list":["post-38171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-alibaba","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}