Ant Group’ s platforms have around
1.3 billion registered users
“ China isn’ t waiting around for AI in healthcare to prove itself somewhere else first,” he says.
“ It’ s moving now, at a speed and scale most Western markets aren’ t close to matching. You have platforms like Ant Group with hundreds of millions of users already living inside their digital ecosystems, which means the infrastructure for mass adoption of preventive health tools already exists.”
China’ s healthcare challenges resonate globally: workforce shortages, healthcare access challenges and rising demand for care among an ageing population are recurring concerns in health systems around the world.
What could set it apart as the AI transition continues apace is its ability to bring healthcare services to those that need it, when they need it, by delivering personalised, highly intelligent healthcare services directly to users’ personal devices.“ China is proving that AI-driven preventive health doesn’ t have to live in a hospital or a doctor’ s office.” Erik summarises.“ It can be a natural, seamless part of an experience someone already uses every day.”
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