The e-commerce giant, Alibaba’s power and strength doesn’t only stem from the fact that it is one of the world’s fastest growing and most potential e-commerce player in the market. The company also cherishes on hoards of data that it has gathered from the online shopping sites and the businesses pertaining to financial and/or cloud computing businesses. Latest Alibaba news reports that the subsidiary of the company, Aliyun which is looking into the cloud computing business for the e-commerce giant, has begun working on a deal which in order to build ‘cloud hospital’ in China which it claims to be the first one in the country.
Alibaba news reports that Aliyun has entered into a partnership with DHC Software and Xi’an International Medical Investment with the aim of creating a platform which is hospital administration oriented and works on improvising the quality of medical care in order to make the management of individual patient and its medical history easier for the organizations and also to analyze the aggregated data pertaining to health.
In order to bring the ‘cloud hospital’ to market and being introduced to the people of China, the responsibility has been given to Xi’an International Medical Investment which not only excels in managing the real estate and department stores but also the medical facilities. DHC Software is there to keep its focus on the development of this system. In the meantime, Aliyun is going to contribute to the data analysis, online to offline healthcare, services related to cloud computing and also the support or feature of online payment in the system.
The chairman of Xi’an IMI expressed that the new platform will let hospitals utilize it in a manner that the patients will not need to spend a long time in waiting rooms and also providing ability to the hospitals of sharing the patient information more quickly. The patients will be capable of registering for the appointments or making use of online payments. The analytic tools being provided by the software let the doctors make diagnoses accurate and precise, this will be made possible by letting them access the medical history of the patient and the relative information from other hospitals quicker and easily and also if they wish to check the information related to family health, they can.
Recently, Alibaba had also announced that the online business related to pharmacy has been transferred by the company to the Alibaba Health, however it has been on the limit by regulations in China on online selling of prescription drugs and medicine but it is hopeful that this will be lifted this year.
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