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ReviewBiomedical engineering letters2025

Artificial intelligence in Chinese healthcare: a review of applications and future prospects.

Zihuan Wang

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Review in Biomedical engineering letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Zihuan WangNational Engineering Research Center of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6756-743X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

China's healthcare infrastructure faces growing population pressure and resource gaps. This review explores how AI applications, regulatory frameworks, and commercialization pathways are reshaping China's healthcare delivery system and global innovation standards. China's AI healthcare market is expected to grow from $900 million in 2020 to $1.59 billion in 2023, and is expected to reach $18.88 billion by 2030, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 42.5%. The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) expects to approve 59 Class III AI devices by 2023, compared with just nine in 2020. Key applications include the widespread use of AI technology in lesion identification; a telemedicine platform serving 13 million users; and AI drug development that shortens the development cycle from 4 to 18 months. Regulatory pillars include the Personal Information Protection Law, which requires explicit consent before processing health data, and NMPA guidelines, which require all AI medical software to undergo three types of review. China's unique combination of centralized health data, policy incentives, and rapid commercialization has created a globally competitive AI medical ecosystem. Continued development requires addressing issues such as algorithm transparency, cross-border data governance, and international regulatory coordination.

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Artificial intelligenceChinaHealthcareMedical devicesRegulationTelemedicine

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PMID41280149
PMCPMC12638562

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