HANGZHOU, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou has become the first in the country to adopt QR codes for medical services, fintech firm Ant Financial said Friday.
The QR codes, produced with the mobile app Alipay, can be connected with users' electronic health cards and social security cards, facilitating everything from registration to medicine taking.
With the QR codes, patients no longer need to carry medical treatment cards and paper medical records when going to the hospital, thus greatly simplifying the treatment process.
From Feb. 12 to 19, over 100 cities in China adopted QR codes to facilitate the control of the novel coronavirus and the resumption of work, according to Ant Financial.
Instead of filling in health report forms, residents can now show the QR codes at community or expressway checkpoints. Thus, no-contact checks can be carried out to reduce virus transmission risks.
The QR codes show how the Internet is being used in China's fight against the epidemic, and provide strong support for epidemic prevention and control and work resumption, said Pan Helin, an expert in economics at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.
