Neusoft and Baidu Establish Strategic Partnership to Launch AI-Powered CDSS Task Force
May 31 News: VCBeat (WeChat Official Account: vcbeat) has learned that Baidu and Neusoft have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. The two parties will jointly promote the implementation of artificial intelligence in key areas such as smart cities and healthcare, as well as innovate business models. Leveraging their leading AI technologies and profound industry expertise, Baidu and Neusoft will achieve complementary advantages, create a paradigm for the close integration of AI with modern advantageous industries, and accelerate the deployment of AI and the intelligent upgrading of industries.
Robin Li, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, stated: “Neusoft is China’s first listed software enterprise, boasting profound technical expertise and an unwavering commitment to driving innovation and integration. We are delighted to have reached a strategic consensus with such a partner to jointly seize new development opportunities and explore new industrial pathways in key areas such as smart cities, intelligent cloud, and smart healthcare. Industrial intelligence has become the focal point of the industry and an inevitable trend for development. We look forward to further unleashing our respective influence in technology, resources, and other aspects through deep cooperation, thereby playing a more significant role and making greater contributions amid the era’s wave of promoting intelligent industrial transformation and accelerating the conversion of economic drivers.”
Liu Jiren, Chairman and CEO of Neusoft Group, stated, “Baidu is a globally leading high-tech company with profound technical expertise and resource advantages in artificial intelligence, big data, and intelligent cloud services. The collaboration between Neusoft and Baidu represents a new business model for the integrated development of internet-based and industry-specific solutions, as well as a strategic alliance for coordinated growth in smart cities, healthcare, and health management. This partnership marks a new phase of cooperation between software solution providers and internet companies. In the future, Neusoft will fully integrate the resources of both parties in technology, solutions, platforms, and markets, engage in comprehensive exchanges and cooperation across more fields, and jointly promote the better application of technology to serve society and individuals.”
Baidu is one of the earliest high-tech enterprises in China to strategically deploy artificial intelligence, boasting leading technological capabilities in key areas such as deep learning, speech recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, knowledge graphs, autonomous driving, and cloud computing. Neusoft has accumulated nearly 30 years of experience in developing industry solutions, offering extensive solutions and a substantial client base in the fields of smart cities and digital health, while ranking among the top players across multiple business segments.
Baidu and Neusoft will launch deep, multi-dimensional cooperation across various business sectors. In the healthcare field, Baidu AI Cloud will collaborate with Neusoft to jointly upgrade cloud-based Hospital Information Systems (HIS). Baidu’s AI technologies will be fully integrated into the HIS product suite, actively exploring hospital intelligence and promoting the in-depth application of medical big data in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Both parties will establish a special task force focused on Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) based on artificial intelligence technologies, working together to advance the exploratory application of AI-assisted decision-making systems in medical institutions. In the future, Baidu and Neusoft will continue to promote the development of inclusive healthcare, ensuring that technology truly benefits the public.
In the smart city sector, Baidu holds a leading advantage in overall smart city design, intelligent transportation, and comprehensive social governance and security. Neusoft, on the other hand, has deep expertise in urban service domains such as government public services, e-government, social security, medical insurance, environmental protection, public security, procuratorate and courts, transportation, finance, land resources, and housing and urban-rural development. The two parties will jointly promote innovation and services for integrated smart city solutions, driving the construction and upgrading of smart cities to make them smarter, safer, and more livable.
The strategic partnership between Baidu and Neusoft marks a significant milestone in the large-scale deployment of Baidu’s artificial intelligence, as well as in the accelerated intelligent upgrading of key sectors such as smart cities and healthcare. This collaboration will pioneer a new model of complementary advantages through “AI + Industry,” generating positive impacts on both the AI industry and the intelligent transformation of urban development.
Currently, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its penetration into various industries, driving intelligent industrial upgrades and becoming a new engine for China’s economic development. Meanwhile, the industrial transformation propelled by AI is also reshaping people’s production and lifestyle. With the rapid advancement of smart cities, intelligent transportation, and smart healthcare, an intelligent society is on the horizon, making it a reality for AI to benefit everyone.