NANCHANG: Forty-one self-service terminals with Alipay’s face recognition technology were put into use at the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital, China’s first hospital to offer facial recognition services to patients for medical bill payment, according to Alipay.
First-time users must enter their ID number to create a profile, which will be kept on file on the terminals, said Sun Guofeng, director of Alipay’s medical business. After the profile is created, the machine will be able to recognise users.
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