Wuxi plans state-of-the-art public health data platform

BayNexus has already provided Wuxi No 3 People's Hospital with a smart nursing system using radio frequency identification technology.

The system allows nurses to quickly identify each patient by swiping their wrist strap. The patient's diagnosis, medical regimen and realtime symptoms are then displayed. More than 300 domestic hospitals are currently using the system.

According to research conducted by Shenzhen-based Qianzhan Industrial Research Institute, the market scale of smart healthcare is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan ($15.32 billion) by 2020.

Wuxi is currently administrating nearly 3,000 smart blood and glucose monitors, according to Shen Yanhong, a local medical official quoting a figure from local medical authorities.

Wuxi has been devoting itself to smart healthcare research in recent years. The city called together more than 40 domestic smart healthcare experts to issue a white paper on the Medical Internet of Things (2016) last October.

The white paper features the current status and development trend of integration between health care and IoT, which is expected to provide references for government decision making and suggestions for hospitals in smart healthcare application.

It was in March 2015 that the State Council issued outlines for the development of the national medical and healthcare service system (2015-20), which encouraged the use of the IoT and cloud computing to promote smart healthcare.