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Healthcare efficiencies in China’s rural provinces

China is boosting remote healthcare is both senses – bringing technology to rural areas by combining centres of excellence, dealing with multiple instances of particular symptoms, with remote diagnostic testing.

An ideal pathway as a basis for, to use US phraseology, “value based care”.

With information running through centralised locations, we would expect to see increasing use of data aggregation and analysis then combining to produce optimum conditions for the use of machine learning to accelerate this 

Increased accuracy can optimise treatment and reduce cost – if we compare a machine that could scan thousands of x-rays, scans etc per second with the number even a team of doctors might see in a year, it is easy to see the direction of travel.  

As ever, geographies that were less developed have the opportunity to leapfrog those previously in the lead.  We, in the West, need to be ready to adopt such improvements to keep costs manageable and performance world class. 

Health care in China’s rural areas is benefiting from the technology boom in the world’s most populous country. Liuwa is among 349 villages in Henan province that have received mobile all-in-one diagnostic stations since the start of the year. These devices can run 11 tests, from measuring blood pressure and electrical activity of the heart, to the more routine urine and blood analysis. The results are uploaded automatically to a data system for further online consultation.

By Richard Hall on 08/11/2019