How Alibaba is Using AI to Improve Healthcare

One of China's biggest technology companies is using its expertise to improve the country's healthcare system. China has a rapidly aging population and hospitals are becoming burdened with too many patients and not enough doctors. Chinese leaders have called on tech companies to help modernize and automate medical tasks as a way to improve patients' access to healthcare. E-commerce leader Alibaba has committed to using AI and machine learning to help hospitals and doctors. Alibaba's cloud computing division has created a suite of AI medical solutions that can assist with drug development, medical imaging and diagnostics.