At the National Two Sessions,In the Report on the Work of the Government delivered by Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council, it was stated thatAccelerate the development of emerging industries. Deepen the research, development, and application of big data and artificial intelligence; foster emerging industrial clusters in next-generation information technology, high-end equipment, biopharmaceuticals, new energy vehicles, and new materials; and strengthen the digital economy.
On the one hand, we will adhere to inclusive and prudent regulation, support the development of new business formats and models, and promote the healthy growth of the platform economy and sharing economy. On the other hand,Accelerate the advancement of “Internet Plus” across all industries and sectors.Continuously promote faster internet speeds and lower fees. Launch pilot programs for gigabit broadband access in urban households, upgrade and enhance networks for remote education and telemedicine, and expand and upgrade mobile network base stations, enabling users to tangibly experience faster and more stable internet connectivity.
In the fields of remote education and telemedicine networks, one company has been deeply cultivating this sector for over nine years: SENYINT.
To date, SENYINT has become a leading expert in specialized medical cloud application solutions in China. It has built and operates the largest telemedicine network in the country, providing one-stop access to over 50 national-level hospitals, 160 regional leading hospitals, and renowned domestic and international specialists for more than 950 county-level cities across 31 provinces and 6,000 tiered hospitals nationwide, thereby ensuring a continuous flow of high-quality medical resources.
SENYINT has already achieved significant results in the applications (telemedicine, remote education) mentioned in the 2019 Government Work Report.
For example, in 2018, SENYINT initiated the development of integrated telemedicine service platforms in Xinjiang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, thereby achieving the construction and operation of seven provincial-level integrated telemedicine service platforms across China (Qinghai, Henan, Shanxi, Guizhou, Xinjiang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi).
According to 2018 data, the SENYINT telemedicine platform conducted 250,000 remote consultations, saved 16,000 patients with critical and severe conditions, directly trained over 80,000 physicians, and reduced patients’ long-distance travel for medical care by 600 million kilometers—equivalent to circling the Earth 15,000 times.
This year’s proposal highlights the launch of pilot projects for gigabit broadband connectivity to households, the upgrading of networks for remote education and telemedicine, and the expansion and enhancement of mobile network base stations, enabling users to tangibly experience faster and more stable internet speeds.
In this regard, SENYINT believes thatThis will greatly promote the development of telemedicine services.Telemedicine services include remote consultations, remote imaging, remote ultrasound, remote electrocardiography (ECG), remote pathology, remote ward rounds, remote monitoring, remote training, remote health monitoring, and remote surgical demonstration. However, due to the medical sector’s stringent requirements for high precision and high stability in network connectivity, as well as current network limitations, it is difficult to fully meet the demands and support the comprehensive implementation of these telemedicine services.
SENYINT has partnered with hospitals to upgrade and transform remote healthcare applications into new models within 5G scenarios, while also promoting the expansion of telemedicine toward mobile platforms to enhance service accessibility.
Meanwhile, inIn the telemedicine cases served by SENYINT over the past years, we have observed that many users have benefited from telemedicine services.
SENYINT is committed to promoting the establishment of a high-quality and efficient healthcare service system, implementing “health-focused poverty alleviation” initiatives, and actively leveraging information technologies such as the Internet to expand the scope and content of medical services.Currently, the company’s “Health Poverty Alleviation” network has achieved comprehensive, blind-spot-free coverage across 21 key poverty-alleviation provinces nationwide, extending service reach to 335 national-level key poverty-alleviation counties and effectively facilitating in-depth integration of medical resources.
With the support of SENYINT, the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Health and Family Planning Commission spearheaded the development of a cloud platform centered on the Hainan Prefecture People’s Hospital, enabling interconnectivity among 48 medical institutions at various levels. This initiative achieved operational integration between the Hainan Prefecture People’s Hospital, six county-level hospitals, and 41 township health centers in Hainan Prefecture, thereby establishing a regional medical consortium and a coordinated mechanism.Integrate urban hospital resources and establish a health information platform based on primary healthcare institutions, enabling effective integration and coordination among medical care, public health, and family planning services across the prefecture. Actively ensure that referral rates for primary, secondary, and tertiary medical institutions are controlled at 70%, 25%, and 20%, respectively.
In addition, various initiatives across the prefecture, including remote consultations and remote education, have been advancing in an orderly manner. In terms of remote education, Hainan Prefecture actively conducts multiple thematic training sessions each month. Each session covers more than 200 healthcare professionals from an average of nearly 40 primary healthcare institutions throughout the prefecture. By effectively leveraging remote information technology and services, these efforts enhance the quality and efficiency of medical services, improve the precision of poverty alleviation through healthcare, and actively promote the implementation of tiered diagnosis and treatment.
Shaanxi Province has adhered to the fundamental strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and precise poverty eradication, establishing a healthcare assistance framework centered on four key systems: hospital-to-hospital pairing assistance, medical consortium support, service guarantee assistance, and precise one-on-one pairing assistance. By consistently promoting the downward flow of high-quality medical resources and comprehensively enhancing healthcare service capacity in impoverished areas, the province has made significant contributions to health-focused poverty alleviation and its overall campaign against poverty.
Currently, SENYINT’s telemedicine network covers more than 96% of the 50 national key counties for poverty alleviation in Shaanxi Province. Meanwhile, it has facilitated the establishment of medical consortiums in key poverty-alleviation areas, including the Ankang Medical Consortium, the Yanchuan County Medical Consortium, and the Hanzhong 3201 Medical Consortium. These initiatives have enhanced primary healthcare service capacity across the province from multiple dimensions, enabling impoverished populations to access high-quality medical services close to home.
Taking Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, as an example, the city’s health and family planning system has closely aligned with the goal of “controlling incremental cases and reducing existing burdens” in health-focused poverty alleviation. It has rigorously implemented policies and continuously accelerated the development of “Healthy Hanzhong.” Currently, remote healthcare services cover 28 hospitals across all 11 districts and counties in the city. In terms of medical consortium construction, the consortium centered on Hospital 3201 has provided intensive support to its 11 member institutions, including targeted assistance to Zhenba County, a nationally designated county for precise poverty alleviation. Meanwhile, Hospital 3201 has established a paired-assistance mechanism, leveraging remote medical services to deepen collaboration in discipline development, diagnostic and treatment technologies, talent cultivation, and hospital management, thereby enhancing the self-sustaining capabilities of healthcare institutions.
As stated in the Implementation Plan for the Health Poverty Alleviation Project of the Shanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission: By 2020, a basic medical and health service system will be established in impoverished areas; the problems of “poverty caused by illness” and “return to poverty due to illness” will be basically resolved; and the health status of the rural poor population will approach the provincial average.
Under the guidance of the Shanxi Provincial Health Commission, SENYINT has assisted the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University in gradually establishing a provincial-level comprehensive telemedicine management and operation platform. This platform connects upward to the National Telemedicine System, horizontally with provincial-level medical institutions, and vertically with telemedicine service platforms at the municipal, county, and township levels.
Meanwhile, it has effectively promoted Shanxi Province’s vigorous efforts to strengthen the construction of telemedicine networks in impoverished areas. Currently, all 13 national-level key poverty-stricken counties in the province have achieved comprehensive telemedicine coverage. By leveraging the advantages of the provincial platform, high-quality medical resources have been effectively extended to these underserved regions, contributing to the continuous improvement of health outcomes and alleviating the difficulties patients face in accessing care for major and complex diseases.
Furthermore, since the launch of the targeted poverty alleviation campaign, Shanxi Province has implemented a series of measures focusing on centralized treatment for major diseases, contracted services for chronic diseases, and safety-net guarantees for severe illnesses. In terms of centralized treatment for major diseases, the number of conditions covered in Shanxi has reached 31, including esophageal cancer and colorectal cancer, which are closely related to gastroenterology, as well as childhood leukemia and end-stage renal disease, all of which have been included in the scope of centralized treatment.
As the leading hospital in Datong City, the Third People’s Hospital of Datong, Shanxi Province, has innovatively driven improvements in the level of digestive endoscopic surgical treatment in the region. By maintaining close collaborations with top-tier hospitals nationwide—including Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Peking University Third Hospital, and PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital)—it has conducted four phases of “Standardized Training for Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Gastrointestinal Cancer.” This initiative has trained over 3,000 grassroots medical professionals through online and offline programs, achieving precise assistance and enabling patients in remote areas to access high-quality medical services locally.
In the field of telemedicine, under the guidance of the Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and the Xi’an Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission, SENYINT facilitated the establishment of the Remote Consultation Center of the Shaanxi Orthopedic Medical Group, led by Xi’an Honghui Hospital. This initiative established the first orthopedic medical consortium in Shaanxi Province, with Honghui Hospital as its core entity. Leveraging the hospital’s specialized orthopedic resources as one of the three major orthopedic centers in China, a national orthopedic consultation platform with regional advantages has been successfully developed.
The “Bone Classics Discourse: A Legacy of Excellence” telemedicine lecture series, jointly developed by the Telemedicine Consultation Center of Xi’an Honghui Hospital and SENYINT, covers specialized topics including spinal surgery, joint surgery, trauma, pediatric orthopedics, sports injuries, foot and ankle surgery, microsurgical bone repair, and hand surgery. To date, four sessions have been conducted nationwide. By leveraging an innovative service model that facilitates learning via remote platforms, the initiative has actively contributed to building healthcare talent pools in western China and across the country. It has provided professional training to over 1,000 orthopedic medical personnel from more than 50 secondary and tertiary general or specialized hospitals in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and other regions, thereby helping these localities establish appropriately sized disciplinary teams.
Furthermore, Ankang City in Shaanxi Province has established a government-led, hospital-implemented, and third-party-supported multimodal, comprehensive, and integrated telemedicine platform. Operated by SENYINT as the third-party service provider, this platform currently connects 21 county- and district-level hospitals, 45 township health centers, and 10 village clinics, forming a robust telemedicine network. It facilitates multidimensional telemedicine services, achieving multimodal coverage across tertiary, secondary, and primary medical institutions, extending down to village clinics.
In promoting standardized training on a regular basis, Ankang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital has adopted a “point-to-point” assistance model to support the development of multiple disciplines in numerous hospitals. By combining online and offline approaches and actively leveraging remote education tools, the hospital has improved training efficiency, enabling village doctors in village clinics to receive timely, high-quality interactive mentoring and support, thereby achieving vertical penetration in talent development. To date, the hospital has continuously conducted specialized training sessions on topics such as the prevention and control of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), influenza prevention and control, and the diagnosis and treatment of hand, foot, and mouth disease through the SENYINT telemedicine platform in Ankang. By the end of 2018, a total of 48 online teaching sessions had been completed, with more than 10,848 participants from county/district hospitals, traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, township health centers, and village clinics across the city receiving local training.
SENYINT has built and provides services for the seven provincial-level tiered diagnosis and treatment platforms in Guizhou, Shanxi, Qinghai, Henan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Xinjiang.Having supported Guizhou Province in completing the construction of the provincial-level telemedicine platform, the telemedicine service system for township health centers across the province, and the provincial big data supervision platform for telemedicine, SENYINT has continued to undertake the construction of Guizhou Province’s province-wide stroke platform.
Guizhou has taken the lead in China by establishing a provincial, municipal, county, and township-level telemedicine service system for public hospitals. The system covers 199 county-level hospitals and 1,543 township health centers across the province, facilitating 236,000 remote consultations and providing remote training to more than 300,000 healthcare professionals.
The Guizhou Telemedicine Platform has fully implemented a diverse range of functions, including remote consultations, tele-education and training, remote outpatient services, remote teaching rounds, remote surgical demonstrations, regional remote diagnostics, and emergency telemedicine. The entire province adheres to an informatization-driven strategy to break down regional barriers in medical resource distribution, facilitating the downward flow of high-quality medical resources via the internet. This approach ensures “zero distance” between doctors and patients, enabling patients to truly experience comprehensive medical services without leaving their local hospitals.