IBM (IBM.NYSE) is introducing new technology to a group of hospitals in Guangdong province with the aim of standardizing patient records and collating data for analyses of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatments, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hou Xueqiao, IBM’s healthcare solution manager, said the new system is a "kind of hospital solution that focuses on how to process [and] manage patient data … and enable all kind of analytics to leverage the very valuable information within electronic medical records." Results data will be used to help doctors create treatments using both Western techniques and TCM. China is currently in the second year of a three-year US$124 billion healthcare reform plan, but few announcements have been made regarding breakthroughs in improving the country’s medical services since the financial crisis.
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