China Telecom and Peking Union Medical College Hospital Unveil Quantum-AI Dual-Driven 'Med Agent' for Next-Gen Smart Healthcare

Recently, China Telecom Corporation joined hands with Peking Union Medical College Hospital to innovatively develop the “Med Agent” intelligent agent, successfully revolutionizing the traditional retrieval model for medical scales. It took the lead in deploying the full-scale version of the DeepSeek-R1 large AI model and innovatively integrated quantum security technology to create China’s first smart healthcare platform built on a dual-security foundation of “cloud dedicated line + quantum gateway.” This breakthrough not only marks a new stage of full-stack autonomy and controllability in medical AI technology but also reshapes the future paradigm of healthcare services with the dual engines of “security + intelligence.”

China Telecom Group has implemented a “Full-Scale DeepSeek-R1 + Quantum-Safe” dual-technology framework for Peking Union Medical College Hospital, delivering a revolutionary breakthrough to the healthcare industry. The newly launched full-scale DeepSeek-R1 boasts powerful reasoning capabilities, enabling more efficient processing of massive volumes of medical data and providing physicians with precise recommendations. Meanwhile, quantum technology establishes a new paradigm for medical data security, ensuring “absolute” security through end-to-end quantum key protection and breaking down trust barriers in multi-center medical collaborations. This dual empowerment of technology and security not only accelerates the clinical translation of scientific research but also sets a global benchmark for medical AI development that prioritizes both security and efficiency, offering an autonomous and controllable “Chinese solution.”

Amid the accelerating penetration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare, China Telecom Corporation Limited has entered into a deep strategic partnership with Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) to jointly build the AI brain for PUMCH’s digital transformation—“Union Intelligent Hub.” Built on large language models as its technological foundation, “Union Intelligent Hub” deeply integrates authoritative clinical practice guidelines, medical literature, and PUMCH’s century-long accumulation of medical expertise. By consolidating computing power, algorithms, and data resources, it pioneers the construction of an intelligent agent matrix that comprehensively covers clinical care, patient services, and hospital management scenarios.

In this collaboration, to address the inefficiencies of manual retrieval of medical scales and the problem of data silos in traditional diagnosis and treatment workflows, the “Med Agent” comprehensive medical AI agent, independently developed by China Telecom’s Health Industry Research Institute—China Telecom Yikang Technology Co., Ltd.—has been integrated into the existing Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) with a focus on clinical needs. It intelligently recommends medical scales to clinicians, enabling automatic data population and self-assessment of scales, while also supporting one-click reference tracing and automatic updates of medical scales.

1. Data Integration: The "Med Agent" comprehensive medical AI agent integrates multidimensional information, including patient chief complaints, diagnostic data, and laboratory results, combined with commonly used medical scales in various departments, to provide intelligent recommendations for physicians, significantly reducing the time spent on manual retrieval.

2. Knowledge Update: Overcoming the limitations of traditional database searches, this system leverages large language model technology to analyze cutting-edge literature and guidelines, automatically extract and validate medical scales, and provide one-click source tracing to the original literature, ensuring the timeliness and authority of clinical tools.

3. Clinical Efficiency Enhancement: The “Med Agent” comprehensive medical AI agent can automatically populate objective clinical data into medical scales, personalize the recommendation of assessment scales based on patient conditions, and provide diagnostic and treatment recommendations, thereby further improving the efficiency of clinicians in diagnosis and treatment.

The introduction of “Med Agent” not only simplifies physicians’ operational workflows but also significantly enhances the scientific rigor and efficiency of clinical decision-making, providing clinicians with evidence-based, personalized diagnostic and treatment recommendations, thereby pioneering a new model of intelligent clinical decision support.

Amid the accelerating digital transformation of the healthcare industry, data security concerns are becoming increasingly severe. China Telecom Corporation has integrated quantum-safe encryption technologies into medical data transmission for Peking Union Medical College Hospital and plans to connect to the Beijing Quantum Metropolitan Area Network. By leveraging Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology to achieve end-to-end encryption, this initiative robustly ensures the confidentiality and integrity of core data, such as patient medical records and diagnosis and treatment logs, during transmission. This effectively establishes cutting-edge technology as a solid barrier safeguarding the baseline of medical data security, thereby advancing medical data protection to a new level.

China Telecom Corporation has consistently focused on building full-stack capabilities for the healthcare industry. Leveraging the deployment of the full-scale DeepSeek model and quantum gateways, and with security ensured, China Telecom Yikang Technology Co., Ltd. has distilled the China Telecom Xingchen·Jishi large language model to empower the “Med Agent” comprehensive medical AI agent. This initiative represents a major strategic layout by China Telecom Corporation in the realm of “Healthcare + New Quality Productive Forces.” The seamless integration of these technologies will further enhance the quality of medical services, optimize patient care experiences, and accelerate the pace of scientific research and innovation.

Looking ahead, China Telecom will continue to deepen its collaboration with healthcare institutions and actively explore broader applications of cutting-edge technologies in the medical field. We firmly believe that, empowered by both artificial intelligence and quantum communication technologies, the healthcare industry is poised for a brighter future. Let us join hands to create greater achievements in the journey of medical technology innovation, writing new legends in safeguarding public health!