SCMP | Tsinghua University launches AI-driven hospital to train next-gen doctors

Source: Tsinghua University-incubated start-up to widen test of virtual hospital with ‘AI doctors’

A Chinese start-up incubated at the prestigious Tsinghua University has started internal tests of its virtual hospital platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as the country extends the technology’s application to the medical sector.

The platform developed by Tairex, a company set up in September under the university’s Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), features 42 AI doctors covering 21 departments that include emergency, respiratory, paediatrics and cardiology, according to an AIR blog post published last month.

Public tests of the platform, named Agent Hospital, will be conducted in the first quarter of 2025, with the goal of making the system available to the general public later in the first half of next year, according to the institute.