China-Japan Friendship Hospital considering bid to digitalize to boost services

Beijing's China-Japan Friendship Hospital is in talks with Aliyun in a bid to introduce cloud computing into its construction of a digital hospital system, which already covers 17 other hospitals, said hospital President Xu Shuqiang at the recent 2014 Sino-US Digital Hospital Construction Forum.

Once established, the network would link all of the 18 hospitals, including China-Japan, by facilitating applications such as electronic medical record sharing, fee transaction and telemedicine. Some 1.5 million people are expected to be covered.

"Once put into practice, that would largely improve the medical service quality and efficiency, enhance public access into quality medical resources and lower costs," Xu said while addressing the forum.