Just what the doctor ordered: how AI could help China bridge the medical resources gap

Li Bin, a doctor at the Lanzhou-university" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="120316" data-entity-type="organization">First Hospital of Lanzhou University, was among the wave of Chinese consumers who snapped up Apple Mac Mini computers during the country’s frenzied adoption of the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent earlier this year.The young surgeon from Lanzhou, the capital of northwestern China’s Gansu province, bought one to run the open-source program, using it to develop an app to extract and organise information from doctor-patient conversations and lab report photos into structured medical records, eliminating the need for tedious and time-consuming manual data entry.Thanks to AI, he said “a doctor with no coding training can build such applications at very low cost” to meet specific needs.