Yidu Tech and Beijing Friendship Hospital Forge Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to Co-establish Clinical Research Digital Intelligence Laboratory

On March 31, the "Driving Innovation, Uniting Talent, and Developing New Quality Productive Forces" Academician Forum and the inauguration ceremony of Beijing Friendship Hospital's Medical Digital Intelligence Innovation Center took place in Beijing. Distinguished attendees included:

Hu Shimin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wu Shizhong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Ji Xunming, President of Capital Medical University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Yan Jin, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission

Liu Li, Deputy Director of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee

Xie Xianghui, Party Secretary of Beijing Friendship Hospital

Zhang Shutian, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Beijing Friendship Hospital

Wang Zhenchang, Member of the Party Standing Committee, Vice President of Beijing Friendship Hospital, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Director of the Medical Digital Intelligence Innovation Center

As a strategic partner of Beijing Friendship Hospital, Xu Jiming, Co-founder and CEO of Yidu Tech, was invited to attend the inauguration ceremony and deliver a speech.

Strategic Collaboration Agreement Signed

During the event, Yidu Tech and Beijing Friendship Hospital signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly establish a "Clinical Research Digital Intelligence Laboratory." This collaboration focuses on the deep application of large language model (LLM) technology in medical research, addressing three major pain points:

The partnership aims to create a "digital intelligence-driven" benchmark for medical innovation.

Six Years of Collaboration Evolution

Since their first strategic collaboration in 2018 on the "DPAP" Medical Data Intelligence Platform, Yidu Tech and Beijing Friendship Hospital have progressively deepened their partnership with the goal of "data-driven medical innovation." Key milestones include:

• Building a patient follow-up platform and colorectal cancer-specific database
• Establishing the hospital-wide next-gen data center "YiduEywa" (2022)
• Upgrading the research platform to support full-disease coverage and AI integration (2024)

The establishment of the joint laboratory marks a new phase of "digital-intelligence convergence," leveraging LLM technology to reshape the entire clinical research process—transitioning from experience-driven to data-and-AI-drivenresearch.

Three Core Systems of the Joint Laboratory

1. Hospital-Wide Research Data Platform

• Integrates multi-source medical data to establish a full-disease, full-process research data platform.

• Standardizes and governs patient diagnostic and treatment data to provide high-quality, traceable support for specialized research.

• Upgrades the hospital from "data accumulation" to "data value mining."

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2. Super Research Assistant (Reduces Research Cycle by Over 80%)

• Inspiration Acceleration: AI LLM generates literature matrices & comparative analysis reports to help researchers identify breakthroughs.

• Project Acceleration: Enables natural language-based patient screening, long-text structuring, self-service data governance, and intelligent statistical analysis.

• Outcome Acceleration: Automatically extracts key findings and generates paper outlines & draft frameworks for high-quality academic output.

3.Precision Patient Recruitment (20% Efficiency Boost, 70% Cost Reduction)

• AI-Powered Recruitment: LLM analyzes patient records to precisely match clinical trial criteria and guide supplemental data collection.

• AI Patient Engagement: Optimizes doctor-patient communication to improve compliance and reduce trial dropout rates.

• Real-Time Risk Monitoring: Links multi-dimensional data (lab tests, medication records) to detect adverse events early.

Exploring a "Hospital-Enterprise Synergy" Innovation Model

The collaboration will also pioneer a new incubation pathway combining data empowerment, technical synergy, and talent integration to establish a "hospital-led innovation, enterprise-accelerated implementation" model—setting an example for medical institutions leading industrial innovation.

Xu Jiming emphasized:
"The value of medical LLMs lies not in replacing doctors but in understanding and amplifying their expertise. We adhere to the principle of 'doctor-led, AI-empowered' collaboration, ensuring AI serves as a 'catalyst for inspiration,' 'efficiency engine,' and 'bridge for translation' in clinical research."

Future Vision: Building a "Data-Driven, AI-Synergized" Ecosystem

Yidu Tech and Beijing Friendship Hospital aim to create an end-to-end innovation consortium covering:
Basic Research → Clinical Trials → Industrial Translation
By leveraging LLM technology to advance precision medicine, they seek to establish a replicable "Friendship-Yidu Paradigm" for hospital intelligence transformation.