On the afternoon of November 20, the Professional Attainments Improvement Plan 2020 -- Professional Cognition of Department of Information Management Science of our school was held in meeting room 205. Professor Xiaoying Zhou at the School of Information Resources Management, Renmin University of China, was invited to give a lecture entitledInformation Empowers Health.

People attended the lecture were as followings:

Professor Wei Lu, Dean of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University,

Professor Gang Li, Director of Center for Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University,

Professor Ping Liu, Associate Professor Jun Dai and Associate Professor Lin Luo at the Department of Information Management Science,

Professor Shengli Deng, and Professor Hao Fan, Associate Professor Enmei Song, Director of the Journal Center, and representatives of postgraduates and undergraduates participated in the activity.

Professor Lu An, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Management Science, presided over the meeting.

Xiaoying Zhou explained from three aspects: how to understand health, information empowers health and information empowers better health. She first analyzed her understanding of health and pointed out that health is constantly evolving. Traditional health refers to "the body is in a normal state of operation, no disease". Now, this statement is not entirely correct. The health formula reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) is: health = 15% genetic factors + 10% social factors + 8% medical conditions + 7% climatic conditions + 60% self-care. This formula helps us better understand health.

Secondly, Xiaoying Zhou interpreted the national strategy of general health by analyzing theOutline of Healthy China 2030 Plan, and pointed out that general health is a new understanding of health. It has three characteristics: first, focusing on human health; second, focusing on prevention and health promotion; third, highlighting the overall concept. She pointed out that information can empower health. The World Health Organization mentioned that information is the only way to health. One third of human diseases can be effectively avoided through prevention and health care, one third of diseases can be effectively controlled through early detection, and one third of diseases can be improved treatment effect through information communication. Whether from the perspective of individuals or society, whether for health management or treatment effect, information is the magic weapon to maintain health. Taking the case of Zexi Wei as an example, Xiaoying Zhou pointed out that health literacy is a personal quality highly related to health information. Low health literacy will affect personal health decision-making, lead to the increase of public and national health investment and the waste of health resources.

Xiaoying Zhou proposed that to make information empower better health, the public should first learn to judge the authenticity of information and the value of information. The Internet era provides convenient access to information and low cost of network access. The era of national health means that everyone is concerned about health. Under the catalysis of multiple factors, the health information environment has become more and more complex. The public should learn to distinguish and choose health information. She pointed out that the combination of digital technology and traditional medical science has become a new way of health care and treatment, such as APP medical care. Taking smoking cessation treatment as an example, Xiaoying Zhou explained that the combination of digital therapy and medicine has been proved to be a new treatment method with clinical effectiveness and low cost, and it has been steadily promoted in countries with relatively perfect medical systems such as Britain and the United States.

The progress of clinical application is inseparable from the development of corresponding theories. Xiaoying Zhou believed that health informatics, as an emerging interdisciplinary subject, provides disease prevention and self-management needs for medical professionals and the general public, and will certainly provide indispensable support and contribution for the development strategy of "Healthy China".

After the lecture, teachers and students had a heated and in-depth discussion on the contents of the lecture. Xiaoying Zhou answered the relevant questions raised by the teachers and students one by one. The teachers present believed that under the background of "Healthy China", combining the theory and method of information management with health science to provide organization management and service support of information resources for health management will become the frontier development direction of information management discipline.