Health care in Guangzhou is set to benefit from multi-billion dollar investments from the government in AI start-ups and research. Currently, 1,000 companies are working on integration of AI into the Chinese health care system, where there are 131 practising physicians per 131 citizens. AI is already being used to assist in screening patients for cataracts in a Guangzhou clinic. But I believe that in healthcare, AI is best thought of as a smart personal assistant for physicians, which adapts to their needs and ways of working (‘adaptive intelligence’, as we call it at Philips). It can also be used to organise vast amounts of health care data, the World Economic Forum , and provide information about chronic illnesses. It can additionally be used as a healthy-living tool, as the focus shifts to prevention.
Health care in Guangzhou is set to benefit from multi-billion dollar investments from the government in AI start-ups and research. Currently, 1,000 companies are working on integration of AI into the Chinese health care system, where there are 131 practising physicians per 131 citizens. AI is already being used to assist in screening patients for cataracts in a Guangzhou clinic. It can also be used to organise vast amounts of health care data, the World Economic Forum , and provide information about chronic illnesses. It can additionally be used as a healthy-living tool, as the focus shifts to prevention.