Shanghai announces plan for future infrastructure and service projects citywide
Eleven "Shanghai standard" projects for this year were announced on Monday, covering digital governance, digital economy, digital life, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, finance and advanced manufacturing.
Requirements and implementation plans for one-stop government affairs services, smart elevator monitoring, tunnel operation and maintenance service, biomedicine quality control laboratories, medical treatment payment and facial recognition system technologies were some notable items on the list of future projects, according to the Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation.
Among these, a one-stop medical treatment payment implementation plan by Shanghai's Renji Hospital is the only hospital project given the "Shanghai standard", and it fills a vacuum in the area.
It streamlines patient queuing procedures for payment and cuts the queuing time by 45 minutes on average.
The implementation plan merges traditional medical treatment services with digital Internet technology, and it introduces a credit mechanism for individual payment and for payment by family members, expanding payment means and significantly improving the efficiency of service at medical treatment institutions, said Wang Yu, deputy president of Renji Hospital.