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  • Unmanned medical clinic opened in China

    Unmanned medical clinic opened in China

    Chinese one-stop healthcare platform Ping An Good Doctor has announced the world’s first commercially operational unmanned medical clinic. The firm’s “One-minute Clinic” has been formally unveiled in a scenic area in Wuzhen. It will provide a high-speed, convenient, one-stop-shop for medical and healthcare services for nearby residents, visitors to the scenic area and guests of the 2018 World Internet Conference.

    The clinic includes two major functional modules, an “Independent Advisory Room” and a “Smart Medicine Cabinet.” Patients consult with a cloud computing doctor in the advisory room to receive a preliminary diagnostic suggestion, and may purchase prescribed medicine from the medicine cabinet afterwards. The clinic stocks more than 100 common drugs. Unavailable medicines may be purchased online using the Ping An Good Doctor smartphone application, receiving the drug from nearby pharmacies with a one hour delivery service.

    During a one week trial, the daily average advisory volume approached 100 visitors.

    The firm plans to popularise the clinics in public areas such as pharmacies, communities, enterprises, schools, scenic areas, markets, highway service stations, and so on. Combined with Ping An Good Doctor’s offline network of 3100 new hospitals and more than 60,000 neighbourhood clinics, the clinic is expected to quickly meet real-time medical and healthcare needs of city residents.

    Ping An plans to expand to 1000 units across China by the end of the year.

    A spokesperson for Ping An Good Doctor revealed that the clinic’s AI doctor was researched and developed by a team formed from over 200 world-class artificial intelligence experts, trained using data from over 300 million visits and consultations. More than 2000 common diseases are covered by the AI’s data set.

    A back office staffed by expert physicians are engaged to verify the diagnosis and advice of the AI doctor.

    Overcrowded hospitals are part of the cause behind the present difficulty in obtaining quality healthcare in China.

    Information from a third-party research institute shows that, in 2016, including transport and waiting-in-line times, Chinese patients consume an average of three hours per medical visit, although the actual time for diagnoses averages only eight minutes per visit.

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  • Lenovo opened an unmanned store in Beijing

    Lenovo opened an unmanned store in Beijing

    Lenovo China has launched an automated store in Beijing based on facial recognition technology. The Lenovo Go store also features a mobile payment system. A blog post put out by the Taiwanese tech giant reads: “Shopping at the store is quite simple. You walk up to the door, cameras recognise your face, you browse the aisles, pick out what you want as usual, then – and here’s the magic – you just walk out, and your account is automatically settled via your mobile payment.”

    Lenovo’s head of research and technology Daryl Cromer said: “We can now understand some of the technologies and challenges our customers face, allowing us to make better devices and tailored solutions.

    The store becomes a powerful pilot program for technologies that move beyond the Lenovo campus.”

    Lenovo plans to use data gathered at the store to power future technologies, such as an espresso machine that can brew coffee to individual preferences based on facial recognition.

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  • Shell Malaysia Launches 24-Hour Unmanned Petrol Mart

    Shell Malaysia Launches 24-Hour Unmanned Petrol Mart

    Shell Malaysia has opened its first unmanned Select convenience store. Located at Shell Tezz Enterprise on Jalan Tun Razak, the store trades 24-seven and is powered by technology from BingoBox. Customers can select goods from the shelves and place them on the store counter which automatically calculates the price. Payments can be made by debit or credit cards, or by BingoBox’s mobile app.

    BingoBox is based in China and has launched in Malaysia through a joint venture with local company Scientific Retail.

    “Using BingoBox Retail Technology, we can provide customers with a seamless shopping experience when they are at Shell at any time of the day,” said CEO of Scientific Retail, Ng Seong Ping.

    Shell Malaysia MD Shairan Huzani Husain said the technology will improve customer service.

    “Our Shell site employees now have more time to attend to customers’ needs, thus ensuring they are able to leave our station a little happier,” he said.

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