Guangzhou gives birth to China's smartest hospital

According to Tian Junzhang, head of the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, the "AI doctor" can provide a diagnosis for more than 200 diseases with over-90-percent accuracy rate, equivalent to the proficiency required of a senior surgeon.

The development of the "AI doctor" is a groundbreaking application of AI algorithm in the medical field: it is trained through deep neural network learning, based on the world's largest Chinese-language medicine-related glossary and knowledge graph, which stores 300 million "desensitized" (private information has been hidden) treatment cases accumulated by ten distinguished hospitals from Beijing municipality, Jiangsu province, and Guangdong province.  

Build medical archives on WeChat

Patients sometimes forget to carry their personal identity card or treatment card which is required at hospitals, and unfortunately have to return home to fetch them. Such troubles have now been solved at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital as patients no longer need to carry physical cards at all.

On the hospital's WeChat account, patients can create a personal account using facial recognition technology, which can be verified in seconds as long as it matches the big data stored with the police.

AI robots offer smart guidance

An AI robot has been set up in the outpatient hall of Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital to offer complete guidance to patients. Equipped with voice recognition technology, the robot can hold conversation with patients, present the location of different hospital departments, share the evaluation and availability of different doctors, as well as other useful information.

It can also help patients deal with various kinds of bookings and payments, doing things that any other self-service machine is capable of.

AI porters

The smart hospital has many AI logistics robots, which work 24 hours a day as porters. They move surgical items to designated locations and can operate elevators by themselves. Should the medical staff forget certain surgical items or face a shortage of items, the robot would even remind them via telephone before surgeries begin. As a result, the medical staff don't have to be frequently moving from one side of the hospital to the next, which significantly lowers the possibility for them to infect their patients.    

Additionally, medical consumables are now stored in smart closets which reports stock quantity in real time, sending necessary data to doctors, nurses, and patients’ families before and after surgeries.

An AI logistics robot at the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital. [Photo/news.dayoo.com]