Dialogue with Xue Min of United Imaging Group: Medical AI is moving from model competition to the reconstruction of the medical system

Intelligent Things Author | Bi Weihao Editor | Moying The largest AI event in history - the World Artificial Intelligence Conference WAIC 2026 has just come to an end. This year, in addition to the "hot words" of chips, models, agents, AI hardware and robots, people are discussing how AI can truly enter the deep water of the industry. Medical care is one of the areas that attracts the most attention. From general large model manufacturers to medical technology companies such as United Imaging, they are all accelerating the deployment of medical AI. But as AI gradually enters real clinical practice, a new question also emerges: If AI is just a tool in hospitals, can it really change the medical industry? During WAIC, United Imaging Group officially released the "Yuan Hospital Strategy". At the press conference, a human-machine debate centered on "in five years, whether more than 50% of medical treatment will occur outside the hospital", which also led the discussion to topics about future medical care. ▲The scene of the man-machine debate. The answer given by United Imaging is "Yuan Hospital". It is not about building a virtual hospital, nor is it simply packaging multiple AI products. Instead, it hopes to use AI to break the boundaries between inside and outside the hospital, online and offline, so that medical service capabilities can break through time and space constraints, extend from disease treatment to full life cycle health management, and achieve a systematic leap in quality, efficiency, cost and accessibility. Behind the strategy of Yuan Hospital, in addition to thoughts and ideas about future medical care, there is also hidden the vision of United Imaging for the digital intelligence of the medical industry. Today, we had an in-depth dialogue with Xue Min, Chairman of United Imaging Group, trying to get closer to United Imaging’s secret ambition. ▲ Xue Min, Chairman of United Imaging Group 1. Yuan Hospital is not to build a new hospital, but to reconstruct the future of medical care. Zhi Dongxi: During this World Artificial Intelligence Conference, we saw that United Imaging grandly released the "Yuan Hospital Strategy". Can you briefly introduce this strategy to us? Xue Min: The "Yuan Hospital Strategy" released this time is an important digital intelligence strategy that will drive the future development of United Imaging Group. It is also our vision for the future of medical care after full consideration. Relying on the group layout, United Imaging not only has long-term accumulation of self-developed chips, full-stack intelligent diagnosis and treatment equipment and wearable devices,