# China is next level: While Europe is still trying to implement an electronic patient record, Ten...

> While Europe is still trying to implement an electronic patient record, Tencent in China is building an end-to-end digital healthcare system — a vision I saw firsthand when we at Novartis built our strategic partnership with Tencent back in 2018.

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Published: 2024-09-11
Updated: 2026-05-06
Author: Christian Hein
Tags: technology/artificial-intelligence, technology/digital-health, geography/china, geography/europe, activity/partnership-alliance, industry/large-pharma

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China is next level: While Europe is still trying to implement an electronic patient record, Tencent in China is building an end to end digital healthcare system.

Great talk by Alex Ng of Tencent Healthcare at intelligenthealth Basel conference illustrating how you can build a truly patient centric solution on the WeChat platform.

This was the vision we had back in 2018 when we at Novartis built the strategic partnership with Tencent on the AI Nurse, and it is amazing how this is now a lived reality in a country with 1.4bn inhabitants.