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China’s data-driven dream to overhaul health care

Collaborations between AI researchers and China’s medical workers are helping to combat diseases such as diabetes and COVID-19.
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  1. Sarah O’Meara

    1. Sarah O’Meara is a freelance journalist based in London.

Sitting in her Beijing apartment in early 2020, Guangyu Wang watched as COVID-19 cases increased in China and the rest of the world. The biomedical engineer, who works on artificial intelligence (AI), knew from colleagues working in health care that the country’s medical system wasn’t coping. The Chinese city of Wuhan had gone into lockdown after recording the first outbreak of COVID-19, and the World Health Organization had declared a global health emergency.

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Nature 598, S1-S3 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02694-1

This article is part of Nature Spotlight: Biomedical engineering in China, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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