Sogou's Wang foresees tech driving quest for better medical services

Internet, big data and artificial intelligence technologies should be used to provide personalized, digital medical services to customers with an eye on medical services innovation, said Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Chinese search engine Sogou Inc.

In his proposal to the first session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang, a member of the committee, called for a new medical treatment partnership that includes top-tier hospitals, primary-level medical and healthcare institutions and virtual family doctors based on digital technology.

"Digital technologies, such as language processing, image recognition, intelligent questions and answers, and machine translation should be applied to the healthcare sector, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of diagnosis and treatment," Wang said.