Professor Wang Haibo, director of the Big Data Research Center and the Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Sciences, under the first affiliated hospital of San Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, told the Post that the city's public sector health data system is something he has never seen in the US or Europe.
“Hong Kong has the best opportunity to develop the world's most sophisticated AI medical system,” Wang said last month on a bystander at the Asia Summit on Global Health.
“The system is the only technology platform system with a generation of Hong Kong population and medical data,” he said, referring to the clinical management system used by the city's 43 public hospitals.
Hospital authorities began developing the system in the 1990s, and as of last year it contained at least 11 million patient records.
After working at the University of Hong Kong for about 10 years and studying at Harvard University and the University of Maryland in the US, King said he had never seen a healthcare data system similar to that of the North American countries or Hong Kong in Europe.
