Amazon Wants to Disrupt Health Care in America. In China, Tech Giants Already Have.<br />Laura Nelson Carney said that It’s fair to say that across the board, the Chinese tech companies have all embraced being involved in<br />and being active in the health care space, unlike the U.S., where some of them have and some have not,<br />"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<br />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.<br />Technology companies like Alibaba and Tencent have made health care a priority for years, and are using China as their laboratory.<br />The sheer size of China’s population — nearly 1.4 billion people who could provide a vast number of images to<br />feed into their systems — provides a potential advantage for the development of artificial intelligence.<br />in ways that could increase the efficiency of China’s health care system, according to Yiou Intelligence, an industry consultancy based in Beijing.<br />While officials have emphasized the use of artificial intelligence in areas like defense<br />and self-driving cars, they have also aggressively promoted its use in health care.
