Amazon Wants to Disrupt Health Care in America. In China, Tech Giants Already Have.
Laura Nelson Carney said that It’s fair to say that across the board, the Chinese tech companies have all embraced being involved in
and being active in the health care space, unlike the U.S., where some of them have and some have not,
"With this system, if it can be used at hospitals in rural cities, then it will make the medical experience much better." Trying to identify cancer nodes — shifting black-and-white splotches
that look something like a Rorschach test — is grueling work, and China’s doctors have far less time and resources than their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere.
Technology companies like Alibaba and Tencent have made health care a priority for years, and are using China as their laboratory.
The sheer size of China’s population — nearly 1.4 billion people who could provide a vast number of images to
feed into their systems — provides a potential advantage for the development of artificial intelligence.
in ways that could increase the efficiency of China’s health care system, according to Yiou Intelligence, an industry consultancy based in Beijing.
While officials have emphasized the use of artificial intelligence in areas like defense
and self-driving cars, they have also aggressively promoted its use in health care.