Internet technology to assist healthcare in Yangtze region

Residents of China's Yangtze River delta region stand to benefit from distant medical diagnosis and algorithm-backed disease detection services.

Thanks to a healthcare agreement between local authorities and Chinese internet giant Tencent, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies will be applied to digitalize the medical sectors of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and Shanghai.

"Technologies will help aggregate the resources of offline public hospitals into a medical network serving local residents," according to a joint statement.