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China Plans Smart Health and Elderly Care
  ·  2017-02-17  ·   Source:

China plans to develop the smart health and elderly care industry in the next four years to grants universal access to health management services and home-based elderly care, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on February 16.

 

According to an action plan jointly made by the MIIT, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China will build a smart health and elderly care industry with more than 100 industrial leading enterprises and a number of brands by 2020.

 

The country will also have more than 100 model bases for the industry in the next four years, said the plan.

 

Efforts should be made to make breakthroughs in core technologies and promote the development of intelligent analysis technologies such as real-time health status analysis and health trend analysis based on big data, so as to provide more types of health-care services to the public.

 

The government will also encourage the development of advanced health devices such as health management wearables, portable health monitors and home service robots, it said.

 

The MIIT said the it will build a unified information sharing system to improve the quality and security of the service network of the smart health and elderly care industry.

 

(Xinhua News Agency February 16, 2017)

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