Yingkang Yisheng Internet Hospital Named Among 'Future Healthcare 100 – 2022' as Annual Innovative Enterprise

On June 15, at the 6th Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference, the 2022 Future Healthcare Top 100 List was unveiled, and INKON Life Internet Hospital was awarded the “2022 Future Healthcare Top 100 · Pengcheng Award · Enterprise of the Year for Innovation.”

“Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies” is an initiative launched by VCBeat and VBInsight, aiming to select innovative Chinese healthcare enterprises that represent the future of medicine and identify the core forces driving China’s future healthcare industry.

“Promoting ‘Internet Plus Healthcare’ and other initiatives to minimize the need for patients to make multiple trips while enabling data to flow more freely,” and “Accelerating the development of medical consortia and advancing ‘Internet Plus Healthcare’ so that the public can access high-quality medical services close to home”… These are the guidelines and requirements put forward for the development of the health industry in the new era, representing a timely mandate that every enterprise in the broader health sector must embrace.

Not long ago, the “14th Five-Year” National Health Plan was released, proposing to promote the interconnected application of national health information. It calls for building internet hospitals based on physical medical institutions to provide remote monitoring and remote treatment for key populations under contracted services and patients requiring priority follow-up, thereby advancing the development of an online-offline integrated healthcare service model covering pre-diagnosis, during-diagnosis, and post-diagnosis stages.

Yingkang Yisheng Internet Hospital is the result of Yingkang Yisheng’s “user-centric” philosophy resonating with national strategic development. As Haier’s health ecosystem brand, Yingkang Yisheng has continuously explored the health sector since its establishment, building a user-centered ecosystem encompassing “prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and elderly care.” Through precise and customized health management services, it supports lifelong well-being for every individual and every family.

Diverging from the industry’s prevailing internet hospital model, which centers on online consultations, appointment scheduling, and report inquiries, INKON Life’s Internet Hospital leverages its four distinctive medical service scenarios—“critical care rehabilitation, geriatric nursing, comprehensive oncology treatment, and home health management.” By integrating technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G, it delivers internet hospital services that cover the entire lifecycle.

Taking Yuncheng First Hospital’s Internet Hospital, under the INKON Life brand, as an example, in addition to industry-standard services such as appointment registration, consultation and medication purchase, report inquiry, and online consultations, INKON Life has launched a distinctive “Internet + On-Demand Nurse” service through user demand interaction. This service provides home-based nursing care, including dressing changes, PICC catheter maintenance, general enemas, drainage tube care, and venous blood sample collection, enabling patients to access professional nursing services provided by national- or provincial-level specialist nurses without leaving their homes.

Furthermore, leveraging INKON Life’s nationwide ecosystem of nearly 20 hospitals, the INKON Life Internet Hospital can deeply integrate high-quality medical resources, breaking through temporal and spatial barriers to enable more people to access premium healthcare services from the comfort of their homes.

This new form of internet-based medical services is bringing a new paradigm to the development of the industry.

Currently, “strengthening the real economy and developing the digital economy” has been elevated to a national strategy, and promoting the integrated development of the digital and real economies is a key direction for advancing high-quality economic growth in China. The Outline of the “Healthy China 2030” Plan also explicitly calls for actively promoting the deep integration and application of big data technologies with healthcare services. Driving the convergence of the digital and real economies, and empowering the high-quality development of the broader health industry through digital technologies, represents a significant challenge of our times.

“Focusing on the real economy, strengthening and expanding our core businesses, and becoming an explorer and leader in the era of the digital economy”—this is Haier’s strategic choice in response to the sweeping trends of digital technology and the digital economy. As one of the key vehicles undertaking Haier Group’s three core businesses—Smart Home, Industrial Internet, and Great Health—INKON Life centers its strategy around “digital industrialization and industrial digitization.” Beyond building internet hospitals, it has made strategic layouts in multiple areas, including new digital healthcare infrastructure, deep integration of digital technology with medical services, intelligent rehabilitation, and smart elderly care. By actively exploring new models and business formats, INKON Life is committed to driving the high-quality development of the great health industry.

Specifically, in the realm of new digital healthcare infrastructure, Yingkang Yisheng leverages its listed subsidiary, Haier Biomedical, to integrate core biosafety technologies with digital innovations such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G. By embedding these capabilities into two key scenarios—medical innovation and life sciences—the company has incubated comprehensive, customized solutions for sample safety, pharmaceutical and reagent safety, vaccine safety, and blood safety, thereby establishing a digital foundation for biosafety.

In the deep integration of digital technology and healthcare, Sichuan Youyi Hospital, under the INKON Life banner, has leveraged digital innovations to facilitate multidisciplinary team (MDT) consultations. By tailoring personalized diagnosis and treatment plans for patients, it has become a “gold standard” in oncology care. Shanghai INKON Nursing Home has integrated Internet of Things (IoT) technology into elderly care. Through smart devices and an intelligent eldercare service platform, doctors, nurses, and family members can participate in seniors’ daily care anytime and anywhere, ensuring their safety and well-being and enabling a transition from mere “elderly care” to “enjoyable aging.”

Rooted in the real economy, nurtured by its growth, and deeply committed to driving the profound integration of the digital and real economies, INKON Life has provided a practical model for the high-quality development of the big health industry. The recent award received by its internet hospital also reflects the forward-looking nature of INKON Life’s strategic layout, its boundless potential for development, and its strong resilience.