Medlinker and Zhengda Tianqing Forge Strategic Partnership to Expand Service Boundaries and Build a New Health Ecosystem

On October 30, 2020, the “Qingxi Health, Smartly Linking the Future” 2020 Smart Healthcare Development Forum was successfully held in Beijing. The event was hosted by the Smart Healthcare Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and People’s Daily Online·People’s Health, and co-organized by Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group and Medlinker. Attendees included Mao Qun’an, Director of the Department of Planning, Development, and Informatization of the National Health Commission; Fu Wei, Director of the Health Development Research Center of the National Health Commission; Dong Jiahong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the Smart Healthcare Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; Xu Xiaoyuan, Chairman of the Hepatology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; Yang Xiaoping, Senior Vice Chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group; Xie Qirun, Chairman of the Board of China Biopharmaceutical Holdings Limited; Xie Chengrun, Chairman of Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group; and Wang Shirui, Founder and CEO of Medlinker. Together, they explored innovative models for the integration of “Internet Plus” with healthcare and mapped out future blueprints for the industry.

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At the conference, Medlinker, China’s leading chronic disease management platform, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group. The two parties will join forces to explore patient-centric chronic disease management solutions, focusing on multidisciplinary disease areas including oncology, hepatology, and respiratory diseases, thereby providing patients with pioneering chronic disease management service models.

Strategic Cooperation Launch Ceremony

Mao Qun’an, Director of the Department of Planning, Development and Informatization of the National Health Commission, stated at the conference, “The policy effects of ‘Internet + Medical Health’ development are becoming increasingly evident. Moving forward, the National Health Commission will further leverage the advantages of ‘Internet+’, strengthen foundational infrastructure, improve mechanisms, deepen applications, and vigorously promote convenient and beneficial ‘Internet + Medical Health’ services to enhance public satisfaction with healthcare delivery.”

Mao Qun’an, Director of the Department of Planning Development and Informatization, National Health Commission

Fu Wei, Director of the Health Development Research Center under the National Health Commission, delivered a speech on the development of “Internet + Medical Consortiums.” He proposed that the “Internet + Healthcare” model effectively integrates and allocates healthcare resources across city, county, township, and village levels online. This approach promotes the downward flow of high-quality urban medical resources, enabling larger and stronger institutions to support smaller and weaker ones, thereby enhancing the service capacity of primary healthcare facilities. By ensuring broader coverage of medical resources for every household, addressing healthcare challenges, continuously improving the quality of medical services, and accelerating the implementation of tiered diagnosis and treatment, this model contributes significantly to the advancement of China’s healthcare system.

Xie Chengrun, Chairman of Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group, stated, “Through long-term, in-depth strategic planning, this collaboration with Medlinker aims to build a new internet healthcare ecosystem covering multi-disciplinary disease areas, helping physicians achieve standardized patient management. Meanwhile, by providing patients with personalized innovative services such as electronic prescriptions and cloud pharmacies, we will establish, in the truest sense, an integrated online-to-offline medical health service ecosystem that is ‘multi-disciplinary and comprehensively covered.’”

Xie Chengrun, Chairman of the Board of Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group

Wang Shirui, Founder and CEO of Medlinker, stated that the new ecosystem for internet-based chronic disease management co-established with Chia Tai Tianqing perfectly integrates the Outline of the “Healthy China 2030” Plan with industry development trends. This initiative effectively expands the boundaries of current internet healthcare services and sets the direction for the future of smart healthcare. Looking ahead, the partnership between the two parties will aim to cover more fields and disciplines, diversify cooperation models, and promote the improvement and upgrading of the internet healthcare ecosystem.

Wang Shirui, Founder and CEO of Medlinker

The pandemic has accelerated and amplified public demand for “Internet+” healthcare services. The current model of online diagnosis and treatment, which primarily focuses on common and chronic disease management, can no longer meet the needs of multidisciplinary doctor-patient interactions. There is an urgent need for a new service ecosystem in the field of major diseases such as cancer, one that provides comprehensive, full-course disease management for both physicians and patients.

Zhou Jun, President of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and Li Qing, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, delivered opening remarks at the conference. Focusing on the integration of online and offline medical services, they shared the achievements of internet healthcare in continuously driving progress within the health sector, emphasizing the significant importance of jointly building a community for health and medical big data and comprehensively advancing the development of smart healthcare.

During the roundtable discussion, representatives from various sectors engaged in lively deliberations. Su Xiangqian, Vice President of Peking University Cancer Hospital; Xu Xiaoyuan, Chairman of the Hepatology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; and Hu Xingsheng, a senior expert in internet healthcare from the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, offered professional insights on constructing internet healthcare service models. They emphasized that the development of such models should be grounded in genuine medical needs, supported by digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence (AI), to optimize medical resources, effectively assist physicians in managing patients’ entire care journeys, and enhance the accessibility and affordability of healthcare services.

Chen Baiping, Global Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, and Xia Xiaoyan were invited to serve as moderators for the roundtable forum. They noted that multiple favorable policies, including the inclusion of internet-based medical services in national health insurance coverage, are accelerating the improvement and upgrading of the internet healthcare system. In the future, this will better empower multidisciplinary physicians to manage patients throughout the entire course of their diseases.

Roundtable Discussion

Dong Jiahong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the Smart Healthcare Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, expressed his confidence and expectations for the development of the internet healthcare system at the conference: “‘Healthy China’ proposes shifting the focus of medical and health services from ‘treating diseases’ to ‘promoting health,’ with a strong emphasis on building a healthcare service system that covers all dimensions and the entire lifespan. Digital healthcare can play a significant role in every link of this process. Digital tools help physicians conduct convenient and standardized whole-course patient management and facilitate medical research. In the future, the ‘Internet Plus’ healthcare service system still needs to expand its coverage across various specialty diagnoses and treatments, thereby broadening the temporal, spatial, and domain scope of medical services.”

Dong Jiahong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the Smart Healthcare Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association

Both parties to this strategic partnership also stated that today’s signing ceremony is merely a beginning. In the future, they will join hands with more partners to integrate the upstream and downstream segments of the medical and health industry chain, help build a new health ecosystem, implement the Outline of the “Healthy China 2030” Planning Program, ensure that both doctors and patients truly benefit from the internet-based healthcare model, and support and serve the grand vision of Healthy China.