Imagine a hospital where you’re greeted by an intelligent robot, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology ensures you receive detailed diagnostic notes swiftly. In Wuzhen, a small town in east China’s Zhejiang Province, an AI-empowered hospital has served thousands of patients since it opened last year. With fewer than ten human doctors and a team of intelligent triage robots, the hospital is at the forefront of integrating technology into healthcare.
Applying AI technology, this hospital has upgraded services such as medical examinations, chronic disease management, and rehabilitation. Local resident Zhu Weibin recently underwent an AI-based liver function test at the hospital. An automatically generated report diagnosed him with a fatty liver, with AI helping to make the diagnostic indicator of fatty liver accurate to five percent from 30 percent.
“It enables me to intervene in the disease process at an earlier stage,” Zhu said. With the rapid advancement of AI technology, its applications in medical diagnosis and treatment are becoming increasingly widespread in China. An “AI hospital” model, powered by a large-scale AI system developed at a research institution, is capable of “reading” medical literature and “treating” virtual patients.
This cutting-edge system evolves through self-learning and could potentially assist human doctors in real-world medical scenarios in the future. Another AI medical model developed by a team in Shanghai has successful.