TELEMEDICINE

The CUHK Medical Centre is a private non-profit teaching hospital owned by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As the city's first fully digitalised smart hospital, it uses innovative technology in healthcare processes and hospital operations to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Medical organisations around the world are moving rapidly in new directions including going smart and implementing public-private partnerships. More

Covid-19 has thrown telehealth into the spotlight as it reduces the chance of cross-infection at hospitals and supports millions of recovered patients’ rehabilitation. Considering at-home bio-imaging technology to be the backbone of telemedicine, HKTDC Research sat down with Justin Chan, the CEO of Gense Technologies to learn how the award-winning start-up has been working in the field and enabling the early, preclinical screening of body parts, including the lungs, the tendons and the liver. More

Telemedicine, employed with professionalism and efficiency, can quickly target and allocate the medical resources of different regions and institutions. The Covid-19 pandemic has expedited the application of telemedicine in physical healthcare institutions and increased people’s understanding of telemedicine. WeDoctor’s Senior Director of Brand Communications Sunky Zhang gives an account of his company’s development and analyses the prospects for telemedicine in China. More