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Chinese Doctors Develop AI Tools for Medical Records and Clinical Trial Matching
Doctors in China are using artificial intelligence tools to enhance healthcare efficiency, including apps for structuring medical records and systems for matching patients to clinical trials. Examples from Lanzhou and Beijing highlight low-cost applications developed without coding expertise. The initiatives aim to address medical resource gaps in the country.
Apr 24, 11:00 PM·1m read2 sources
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A doctor in northwestern China developed an AI-powered app to streamline medical record creation, as part of broader efforts to incorporate AI in healthcare systems. Li Bin, a young surgeon from Lanzhou and a doctor at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, bought an Apple Mac Mini computer earlier in 2026 to run the open-source OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent.
Using it, he created an app that extracts and organizes information from doctor-patient conversations and lab report photos into structured medical records.
Li Bin stated that 'a doctor with no coding training can build such applications at very low cost' using AI. Lanzhou serves as the capital of Gansu province in northwestern China. South China Morning Post reported these details, noting Li's work eliminates tedious manual data entry.
In Beijing, AI systems are aiding clinical trial processes at a major hospital. Song Yuqin, the deputy head of Beijing Cancer Hospital, spoke at a recent healthcare industry forum about an AI system that runs automatically overnight to match prospective participants against all lung cancer clinical trials.
The system produces a ranked list of suitable lung cancer clinical trials for each prospective participant and sends notifications by 7am highlighting the top options.
South China Morning Post reported that such AI integrations boost productivity for individual doctors and improve medical service quality across hospitals. These examples align with China's ongoing national efforts to apply AI in addressing medical resource challenges and improving efficiency.
