Zhao Jing, deputy director of the National Institute of Hospital Administration under the National Health Commission, delivers a speech at the Digital and Intelligent Health Forum, part of the 2026 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum. [Photo/wicinternet.org]
The integration of digital technology with medical practice is becoming a major trend in the transformation of the healthcare sector, said Zhao Jing, deputy director of the National Institute of Hospital Administration under the National Health Commission.
Zhao made the remarks on July 22 at the Digital and Intelligent Health Forum, part of the 2026 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.
Noting that the world is at a pivotal moment in the rapid development of big data and artificial intelligence, he said that in the healthcare sector, high-quality data is essential for transforming into intelligent tools applicable in clinical settings.
Zhao noted that although numerous public and private medical institutions in China have amassed vast amounts of medical data, they are far from constituting "big data" for the sector as a whole. "To empower artificial intelligence in healthcare, data governance, cleaning, standardization, security and transformation must be advanced to convert raw medical data into valuable data assets," he said.
