At the 2026 Greater Bay Area Healthcare Innovation Conference, Academician Zhong Nanshan pointed out that digital technologies, like artificial intelligence, are bringing about profound changes to the models and efficiency of medical services. The drive to promote smart healthcare isn't about supplanting doctors. Instead, it's about empowering doctors to refocus on their core mission of being "people-centered" and tackling the long-standing challenges of expensive and inaccessible medical care. From offering remote consultations during the epidemic to managing chronic diseases in the present day, digital technologies have boosted the precision of medical care, overcome geographical barriers, and brought benefits to a wider range of grassroots communities.
