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Sharing information and resources via telemedicine gives smaller healthcare providers access to high-quality medical resources and enables a tiered diagnosis and treatment system based on actual need.
By Xu Shenglan and Li Qiwei
Online consultations and telemedicine are creating new diagnosis and treatment models that use medical resources more efficiently, replacing long queues in crowded hospitals with a patient-oriented, personalized, and collaborative networked service.
In 2019, China’s telemedicine market was worth 11.45 billion Chinese yuan (US$ 1.62 billion). According to Zhao Jie, director of the National Telemedicine Center of China (NTCC) at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (FAHZU), telemedicine is crucial to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic and a must-have for public health. He stresses that the telemedicine technology of tomorrow will offer greater potential and allow anyone, anywhere access to high-quality healthcare services.