China's First Digital TCM Consortium Pioneers Digital Health Services and Files IPO Prospectus
From July 28 to 30, the “2021 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Traditional Medicine Forum” was held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. Approximately 500 guests and representatives from China and abroad gathered under the theme of “Inheritance, Innovation, Mutual Learning, and Sharing” to engage in in-depth discussions on traditional medicine, human health, and industrial development, thereby advancing the building of a global community of health for all. As an innovative solution driven by digital platforms to promote the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Digital TCM Health Community received widespread attention at the conference.
2021 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Traditional Medicine Forum Held in Nanchang
The Digital Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Health Community is China’s first TCM health service platform that is “health-centered, TCM-characterized, and digitally supported.” It is dedicated to leveraging digital technologies such as the internet to build a health maintenance and service system that “integrates online and offline services, emphasizes both TCM and Western medicine, covers the entire population, and spans the full life cycle,” thereby providing residents with healthcare services featuring the characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
During the 2021 Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “We must uphold integrity and foster innovation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), promote its inheritance and development, and establish service systems, service models, management frameworks, and talent cultivation models that align with the unique characteristics of TCM, so as to carry forward and revitalize this traditional heritage.” This statement provides fundamental guidance for the revitalization and development of TCM in the new era and charts the course for the construction of digital TCM health communities.
Guests Visit and Inspect the Digital TCM Health Consortium
It is understood that the Digital Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Health Community will leverage online TCM clinics as a pivotal hub, linking upward with renowned Grade A tertiary TCM hospitals and experts, while establishing close collaborative mechanisms with grassroots TCM institutions downward. This initiative aims to build a TCM medical consortium service system, facilitate Jiangxi’s establishment of a National Pilot Zone for Comprehensive TCM Reform, and create a “Jiangxi Model” for the revitalization and development of TCM.
By leveraging systems such as the TCM Constitution Identification System and the Preventive Treatment of Disease System, comprehensive assessments integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine are conducted for residents to establish health “profiles,” thereby providing them with personalized healthcare maintenance services. To address the current weakness in primary-level TCM service capacity, the “Xuanhutai” TCM Intelligent Auxiliary Diagnosis and Treatment System helps primary-care TCM practitioners “accurately perform syndrome differentiation and confidently prescribe formulas.” Currently, this system has been integrated into nearly 2,000 medical institutions, with a cumulative prescription volume exceeding 5.6 million. Additionally, TCM Cloud Mobile Clinics have been developed to deliver high-quality TCM services directly to residents’ doorsteps. Ultimately, upgradingHealthcare Service System Featuring Traditional Chinese Medicine Services, enabling residents to access convenient, effective, and low-cost traditional Chinese medicine services.
TCM Cloud Mobile Clinic Brings High-Quality Traditional Chinese Medicine Services to People’s Doorsteps
To address the challenges in the inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Digital TCM Health Community has leveraged digital platforms to establish a set of renownedStandardized and Digital Pathways for the Inheritance of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners’ Expertise. Leveraging big data analytics for specialized diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders, thyroid diseases, cholelithiasis, and liver diseases, the platform “replicates” the wisdom of numerous renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners, achieving intelligent, disease-specific treatment. For instance, by analyzing over 40 years of clinical diagnostic and therapeutic experience in thyroid diseases by Usrielt, a modern Mongolian medicine expert, the platform developed the “Mongolian Medicine Intelligent Expert System for Thyroid Diseases.” This system is capable of intelligently diagnosing 49 types of thyroid disorders and covers more than 80 standardized treatment prescriptions, with big data analysis indicating a treatment efficacy rate exceeding 90%. Through digital means, the diagnostic and therapeutic wisdom of esteemed senior TCM practitioners is effectively preserved and passed on.
Establishing Standardized and Digital Inheritance Pathways for Renowned Veteran Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Through Digital Platforms
The quality of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) materials is equally critical. The Digital TCM Health Community has also developed a TCM quality identification platform to ensure quality control at the source; established a modern TCM distribution system to achieve full-process quality control, traceability, and regulatory oversight; and provided high-quality, efficient trading solutions for TCM materials through an online TCM trading center. Additionally, smart TCM pharmacies offer patients services such as decoction and home delivery. By establishing a standardized TCM system, we ensureEnsuring the Full-Process Safety of Authentic Daodi Medicinal Materials “From Soil to Stomach”
Establish a Standardized System for Traditional Chinese Medicine to Ensure the Full-Chain Safety of Authentic Medicinal Materials “From Field to Stomach”
Guests stated that the Digital TCM Health Community vividly embodies the TCM philosophy of “upholding fundamental principles while breaking new ground.” It not only pioneers digital health maintenance services for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China but also provides a reference for the inheritance and development of traditional medicine worldwide. Dr. Ni Rong, President of the Internet Health Industry Branch of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies and Chief Designer of the Digital TCM Health Community, noted that Jiangxi Province boasts a rich cultural heritage in TCM. He expressed hope to explore digital TCM solutions and implement this innovative model of TCM health maintenance services in Ganjiang New Area—a fertile ground for TCM—thereby meeting public health needs and promoting the inherited and innovative development of TCM.
In the reform practice of exploring comprehensive, full-cycle health protection for the people, creating a Chinese-characteristic health service model in which traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine complement each other and develop in a coordinated manner has become an inevitable path to implementing the Healthy China Strategy. It is believed that this “Chinese Solution” for the inheritance and development of world traditional medicine—centered on people’s health, distinguished by TCM characteristics, and empowered by digitalization—will polish the “golden brand” of TCM and inject new vitality into it in the new era.