Artificial intelligence: a key to relieve China’s insufficient and unequally-distributed medical resources

American Journal of Translational Research

Yunzhou Ning¹  Chen Li²  Xiangyi Kong⁴  Yanguo Kong⁵  Jingping Wang⁶  Jie Wang⁷  Wan-Ting Lee⁹  Jing Wang^1,10  Lijuan Su^1,11  Yi Fang^1,12  Newton Howard^1,13  Yiming Kong^1,14  Shun Gong^1,15  Bolun Ai^1,16 

[1]College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, No. 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang Province, China

[2]Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK

[3]Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114-3117, USA

[4]Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China

[5]Department of Clinical Oncology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Shenzhen 518036, Guangdong Province, China

[6]Department of Gastrology, Aerospace Center Hospital (ASCH) Aerospace Clinical Medical College of Peking University, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing 100049, China

[7]Department of Neurosurgery, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area Command, Army Institute of Neurology, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning Province, China

[8]Department of Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China

[9]Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Institute of Neurosurgery, PLA Institute of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China

[10]Department of Radiology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[11]Healthcare Big Data AI Lab, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Kejizhongyi Avenue, Hi-tech Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518057, China

[12]Mater Hospital Brisbane Queensland Medical Program, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia

[13]School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China

[14]School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University, No. 19 XinJieKou Street, HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, China

[15]Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

[16]Wisdom Medicine Professional Committee, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Beijing 100876, China

关键词: Artificial intelligence;    China;    medical reform;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: e-Century Publishing Corporation

【 摘 要 】

In this manuscript, we firstly reviewed the challenges faced by China in its health care reform. Though Chinese governments have made tremendous efforts, problems like the difficulties and high expense in medical care and the nervous doctor-patient relationship have been reported a lot, whose key problem is the insufficiency of high-quality medical resource and the supply-demand imbalance. Presently, it’s almost old news: artificial intelligence will overturn the existing medical model. Artificial intelligence technology will transform the medical sector and trigger an estimated $147 billion market during the next 20 years. We hereby pointed out the strengths of medical artificial intelligence and its potentials to relieve China’s insufficient and unequally-distributed medical resources. Also, we analyzed China’s advantages in developing medical AI due to its huge medical big data and China government’s powerful promotion policy. Finally, we put forward some challenges for China to practice this.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC