Grand Zhejiang WeDoctor Launched: WeDoctor and Zheda Newtone Forge Strategic Partnership to Build a Digital Healthcare Innovation Platform

“Dazhe Weiyi” Officially Unveiled

Recently, Zhejiang University Insigma Group and WeDoctor signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement to deepen their partnership. On the same day, the first major outcome of this strategic collaboration—Dazhe WeDoctor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Dazhe WeDoctor”)—was officially unveiled and established. Moving forward, leveraging Dazhe WeDoctor, both parties will integrate their robust digital intelligence capabilities with extensive medical resources. Seizing the opportunity presented by digital healthcare reform, they will engage in deep cooperation across multiple areas, including specialized disease and specialty management, health community operations, internet hospital operations, government public platform development, and the implementation of digital healthcare communities. By empowering the industrial chain through innovation chains, they aim to embed digital innovation throughout the entire process of medical care and health maintenance, thereby enhancing the public’s sense of gain in accessing healthcare services.

Jin Deshui, former Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province, former Party Secretary of Zhejiang University, Chairman of the Development Committee, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Institute; Shen Huarong, Deputy Dean of the Zhejiang University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Institute; Zhao Jian, Chairman of Insigma Group; Li Qing, Deputy General Manager of Insigma Information Holdings; Shi Yu, Senior Vice President of Insigma Sci-Tech Innovation; Liao Jieyuan, Chairman and CEO of WeDoctor; Wang Yang, President of WeDoctor Group; Jing Weiguo, President of WeDoctor Holdings; Zhou Jingbo, Co-CFO of WeDoctor; and Tao Hong, Senior Vice President of WeDoctor and President of Member Innovation and Development, jointly attended the signing ceremony and witnessed the unveiling and establishment of Da Zhe WeDoctor.

Zhejiang University Insigma Group and WeDoctor Sign Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Deepen Partnership

The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that we should advance the construction of a Healthy China, place the protection of people’s health in a strategically prioritized position for development, and proposed major measures such as optimizing population development strategies, implementing the national strategy for actively responding to population aging, deepening reforms of the medical and healthcare systems, expanding the capacity of high-quality medical resources and promoting their balanced regional distribution, fostering the inheritance, innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and strengthening the disease prevention and control system as well as emergency response capabilities for major epidemics. Currently, digitalization has become the core vehicle for comprehensive deepening of reforms in Zhejiang Province. By adhering to the “dual-wheel drive” of digital transformation in healthcare and reform of the medical and healthcare systems, Zhejiang Province has focused on three lists—namely, needs, applications, and reforms—to strive to resolve the urgent, difficult, worrisome, and anticipated issues faced by the public in accessing medical care.

Through this strategic partnership, WeDoctor and Insigma Technology will leverage specialized disease-focused departments and health communities as initial entry points to innovatively deliver distinctive specialized disease management services and community health scenario operation services. Meanwhile, by “connecting points into lines,” they will develop standardized digital diagnosis and treatment protocols on a disease-by-disease and discipline-by-discipline basis, providing patients with comprehensive medical and health maintenance services across the pre-diagnosis, intra-diagnosis, and post-diagnosis stages, while establishing specialized medical alliances. Building on this foundation, they will gradually construct an efficient, health-centric healthcare management system, implement health accountability mechanisms, and create a digital “Urban HMO”—the Digital Health Community model. “By focusing on the three dimensions of ‘points, lines, and planes,’ and anchoring ourselves in the Yangtze River Delta while serving the entire nation, we aim to jointly draw the ‘concentric circles’ of Greater Zhejiang WeDoctor,” summarized Chairman Liao Jieyuan.

Chairman Zhao Jian stated that, as an IT consulting and services group leveraging Zhejiang University’s comprehensive applied disciplines, Insigma Technology has accumulated substantial capabilities in developing hospital information systems, medical insurance systems, and government public platforms. It also possesses extensive experience in constructing and operating internet hospitals affiliated with Zhejiang University-affiliated hospitals, as well as the Smart Healthcare Center of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. By combining Insigma Technology’s ecological resource advantages and IT expertise with WeDoctor’s deep-rooted medical resources and health service ecosystem—honed over more than a decade—the two parties will leverage internet hospitals to establish close-knit medical consortia centered on health. Together, they aim to co-create a new ecosystem for the healthcare industry, set benchmarks in digital healthcare, and empower the intelligent digital transformation of the healthcare sector.

Unveiling Ceremony

It is reported that as early as March 2017, the Ruiyi AI Research Center, jointly established by WeDoctor and Zhejiang University, built an open medical artificial intelligence platform through an integrated “industry-academia-research” model. This platform digitizes and intelligently transforms outstanding domestic and international medical achievements on a discipline-by-discipline and disease-by-disease basis, applying them to the broadest healthcare scenarios in China. For instance, it developed the Western medicine AI diagnosis and treatment application, “Ruiyi Intelligent Doctor,” which has achieved breakthrough progress in more than ten disease categories, including fundus diseases, small pulmonary nodules, colposcopic cervical cancer screening, gastric cancer pathology, and pediatric bone age assessment. Notably, its “Computer-Aided Diagnosis Software for Fundus Imaging” was approved by the National Medical Products Administration and cleared for market launch this April.

Secretary Jin Deshui expressed his hope that WeDoctor and Insigma Technology would work hand in hand with clear objectives, persist in leveraging technological innovation to support the healthcare sector, translate the Party’s requirements into concrete actions to address the public’s challenges in accessing medical care, and contribute to achieving new progress in advancing the Healthy China initiative and actively responding to population aging.