The first Internet hospital in Beijing is officially opened. The penetration rate of Internet hospitals in China will continue to increase.

On September 25th, the first Internet hospital in Beijing that relied on the physical hospital was officially launched. Patients and their families need to download the "Palm Beijing Hospital" app in advance. This app has intelligent referral, traffic navigation, health information, medical encyclopedia and other services. Patients can consult through pictures and texts, directly connect with Beijing hospital experts through video, and enjoy the medical services of experts in the top three hospitals without leaving home. "Graphic and text consultation" covers 30 departments including cardiovascular medicine, kidney medicine, blood medicine, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, gynecology, respiratory and critical medicine, and oncology. The consultation and video consultation are 50 yuan. 80 yuan.

The so-called Internet hospital refers to the new application of the Internet in the medical industry. It includes health education, medical information inquiry, electronic health record, disease risk assessment, online disease consultation, electronic prescription, and remote consultation with Internet as the carrier and technology. And various forms of health care services such as teletherapy and rehabilitation. Internet medical represents a new development direction of the medical industry, which is conducive to solving the contradiction between the imbalance of medical resources in China and the increase in demand for health care.

In October 2014, the Internet Hospital of the Second Hospital of Guangdong Province was first launched. As of November 2016, there were already 36 Internet hospitals in China. From 2009 to 2017, China's Internet medical market has surged from 200 million yuan to 32.5 billion yuan, with a compound growth rate of 89%. At present, the Internet medical industry chain has gradually taken shape. Online registration and consultation companies have entered the medical resources from traffic competition. In the expansion stage of expansion, it is expected that the market growth rate will remain at around 40%. It is expected that the scale of China's connected medical market will reach 90 billion yuan by 2020.

The scale of China's online medical market in 2011-2017

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Internet and commercial insurance giants have entered the Internet medical field. In September 2014, Tencent invested 70 million US dollars in the clove garden. BAT, Xiaomi, and Ping An's Internet medical layout each have their own emphasis, focusing on combining their respective resource advantages. In 2017, there were 455 investment events in China, totaling 47.4 billion yuan. Compared with the past, in the medical and health field in 2017, the growth of financing scale has been significantly reduced. The total amount was only 2.02 billion yuan more than 2016.

Reference to the research and release world "2018 China Internet Hospital Industry Analysis Report - Market Depth Analysis and Development Trend Forecast"

Investment and Financing in China's Healthcare Sector in 2010-2017

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For a long time, China's high-quality hospitals have concentrated on the eastern coast, especially in the north. As China enters middle-income countries, it drives people's demand for health care more and more, and the consumption of health products and services is more diversified and higher-end. From the perspective of the demand side, the aging of the population, the improvement of urban levels, the change of lifestyle, the growth of wealth and the promotion of the universal health insurance system are driving the rapid expansion of the medical service market. Under the continuous construction of Internet hospitals, the national "Health China 2030" Planning Outline and other policies, and the continuous demand for online medical care, the penetration rate of Internet hospitals in China will continue to increase in the future.

Source: public information, observation and research, reprinted China Reports Network