Handheld Ultrasound Diagnostic Equipment is an Opportunity and a Challenge

Vscan Air, a double-sided probe handheld ultrasound diagnostic device connected via a mobile APP, was unveiled at the fifth CIIE. According to the staff at the GE Healthcare booth, traditional ultrasound is a complete desktop machine, which generally weighs more than 100 kilograms. Vscan Air is equivalent to concentrating the core components of a traditional desktop machine into a probe. The device can realize ultrasonic imaging and diagnosis of anatomical structures and fluids, and can be connected to display terminals such as mobile phones and tablets through a mobile APP, breaking the boundaries of previous clinical application scenarios.

In the past, whether it was experts going to the countryside for free medical treatment, grassroots medical staff providing door-to-door services, or maternal and child workers carrying out health services such as "two cancers" screening, they all faced the same problem: it is often easy for people to enter villages and households, but medical equipment such as ultrasound diagnosis is difficult to carry, so they can only use simple equipment such as stethoscopes for simple examinations, or make judgments based on the original medical records combined with physical examinations. Not only is the quality of diagnosis and treatment affected, but it is also difficult to fully "deliver medical services to homes.

This "mini" Ultrasound Diagnostic Equipment is very portable, if it can be popularised, experts and medical personnel to the countryside, no longer need to worry about the mountains and long distances can not carry the equipment, which will greatly enhance the grassroots to do ultrasound examination convenience. More to see, this equipment can also be connected with mobile APP mobile phones, tablet computers and other display terminals, when the experts and medical staff on ultrasound images difficult to make accurate judgements, but also the image transmission to the imaging doctor, the imaging doctor to make a more professional ultrasound diagnosis.

Currently, medical examination equipment is getting smaller and smaller, and the degree of intelligence and informationisation is getting higher and higher, bringing unprecedented opportunities to primary healthcare. In the future, even village doctors will be able to own such "mini" equipment, and in addition to learning diagnostic imaging themselves, they can also ask other doctors to help them diagnose through mobile terminals. Not only ultrasound diagnostic equipment, but also electrocardiographs, biochemical testing equipment, etc., are becoming smaller and smarter, which is beneficial to the rapid improvement of primary diagnosis and treatment.

However, such equipment also increases the risk of misuse of the technology. In the past, foetal sex determination by families wanting to give birth to a boy, and the illegal provision of such services by medical personnel, was initially usually carried out in vehicles equipped with ultrasound equipment, so as to increase mobility and avoid crackdowns, and was related to the fact that the ultrasound equipment was too heavy and too big. Later, when the ultrasound diagnostic equipment became smaller and smaller, to the extent that it could be carried in a suitcase, some maternity and baby photography agencies used the name of "foetal portraits" to carry out foetal sex determination. Because the suitcase with ultrasound diagnostic equipment is very easy to transfer and hide, law enforcement is significantly more difficult. It is feared that once ultrasound diagnostic equipment in the palm of the hand is popularised, illegal foetal sex determination will become even more difficult to regulate.
Science and technology is neutral, there is no good or bad, the key depends on how to use. Pocket ultrasound diagnostic equipment is a double-edged sword, with good use can greatly enhance the convenience and accessibility of medical care. However, if such devices are not properly monitored and regulated, the phenomenon of more male and fewer female babies being born may become more prominent. The emergence of such devices is both an opportunity and a challenge, and the only way to achieve this is to take proactive technical precautions, such as requiring that any micro-ultrasound diagnostic device must have an in-built positioning device, and to put in place proactive management measures, such as requiring that the device must be purchased under a real name, and to strengthen the day-to-day supervision of the device. Only in this way, we can do to avoid harm, so that such high-tech products not only for the people's health services, but also do not add to the social chaos.
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