Research on Development and Challenges of Chinese Medical Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Medical artificial intelligence is the research focus and development orientation of China's current health informationization. Medical artificial intelligence can transform and upgrade modern medical service industry as well as promoting the innovation and development of health industry constantly. In July 2017, the State Council of China issued the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan”, which proposed to promote the application of the new modes and new methods of artificial intelligence treatment in smart health care, establishing precise smart medical system and comprehensively improving the intelligent level of health industry, including, specifically, the development of human-machine coordination surgical robots, intelligent diagnosis and treatment, the R&D of a physiological monitoring system which is wearable and biocompatible and the R&D of programs on human-computer collaborative clinical intelligent diagnosis and treatment, so as to realize the intelligent image recognition, pathological classification and intelligent multidisciplinary consultation, promote intelligent medical supervision and strengthen epidemiological intelligence surveillance and prevention. However, the development of China's medical artificial intelligence technology will bring both new opportunities and new challenges in the meantime. This paper analyzes how to deal with the problems and risks that medical artificial intelligence may bring and how to ensure its development in a safe and controllable way based on the growing trend and usage of medical artificial intelligence in China.