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Walk into a growing number of hospital wards in China and you'll find pumps that track their own supplies,
beds that monitor movement, and systems that flag risks before anyone else notices.
The technology is impressive, yes, but as smart wards move from pilots to real world use, the gap between the hospitals
that can afford this and the ones that can't may end up mattering more than the tech itself.
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I'm Steve Hatherly.
Thank you very much.
Much for joining us today and for the show i'm with yushin
and feifei first up imagine a hospital ward where an infusion pump alerts nurses
when medication is running low vital signs are automatically recorded and an ai system
that can detect a patient at risk of falling before anyone else notices it's happening.
Smart wards are moving from pilot projects to a growing part of China's healthcare system.
But as the technology scales, so do the questions.
Not just about what these systems can do,
but about what they actually change on the ground for nurses and doctors and patients and budgets.
For a top-tier hospital in Shanghai, hmm.
This might not be such a big deal.
It might seem like the next logical step.