WeDoctor Launches China's First Integrated 'Three-in-One' Healthcare Platform 'SanYiLian', Sparking Industry-Wide Attention

Following the launch of China’s first integrated platform for healthcare, medical insurance, and pharmaceutical services—“San Yi Lian”—at the 5th World Internet Conference in early November, WeDoctor’s innovative solutions, driven by digital health technology to spur transformation in China’s healthcare sector, have sparked extensive industry discussion. On December 3, Liao Jieyuan, Founder and CEO of WeDoctor, was invited to attend the 2018 Hong Kong Business Summit organized by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. He shared insights on leveraging the integration of internet technologies with healthcare to genuinely advance coordinated reforms across medical services, pharmaceuticals, and medical insurance, drawing significant attention from professionals in Hong Kong’s finance and healthcare industries.

Liao Jieyuan, Founder and CEO of WeDoctor, Invited to Attend the 2018 Hong Kong Business Summit and Deliver a Keynote Speech

Healthcare reform is a monumental challenge in China. The current round of healthcare, pharmaceutical, and health insurance system reforms has entered a critical phase characterized by deep-seated complexities. Severe data silos persist across the medical care, pharmaceutical, and health insurance sectors, and institutional barriers urgently need to be dismantled. Advancing the coordinated reform of these three sectors (known as “San Yi Lian Dong”) has become the top priority of healthcare reform efforts. As stagnation breeds dysfunction, China’s healthcare reform urgently requires a platform capable of systematically implementing comprehensive, coordinated reforms across medical care, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance.

“The essence of the tripartite linkage among healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance lies in addressing systemic pain points through integration,” said Liao Jieyuan. “The ‘San Yi Lian’ platform aims to break down technical barriers between medical care, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance by achieving unified data, standardized protocols, and aligned business logic, thereby building a personal-health-centered healthcare service system.”

On December 7, the “The Year Ahead: Outlook for 2019” summit, hosted by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition, was held in Shanghai. In his speech, Zheng Shiqiang, CFO of WeDoctor, stated that innovation is the key breakthrough path for industrial development, and introduced to more than 1,000 business elites and leaders in attendance how WeDoctor leverages technological innovation to break down the barriers between healthcare delivery, health insurance, and pharmaceutical reforms.

As an internationally leading healthcare technology platform, WeDoctor has undergone three development stages over the past eight years: The first stage was the establishment of Guahao.com, which facilitated connectivity between hospitals and patients; the second stage involved the creation of an internet hospital, closely linking doctors with patients. “In the next phase, we aim to connect healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance with the general public,” Zheng Shiqiang revealed in his speech.

At the 2018 Hong Kong Business Summit, Liao Jieyuan also outlined WeDoctor’s strategic focus, stating that “the health insurance issue is the ‘hard nut to crack’ that must be addressed first.” In his view, implementing diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments for public health insurance will compel hospitals to share medical data, thereby effectively eliminating redundant examinations and enabling multi-channel healthcare access.

It is understood that the “San Yi Lian” platform centers on medical insurance, leveraging internet, artificial intelligence, and big data technologies to integrate medical consortia, internet hospitals, cloud pharmacies, centralized procurement platforms, and commercial insurance. This integration enables continuous, dynamic data monitoring, allowing the public to access more convenient and equitable healthcare services—including online consultations, e-prescriptions, online medication purchases, home delivery, and real-time medical insurance settlement—within appropriate clinical indications.

“In the future, 50% of common diseases can be managed at home, 35% can be treated at primary healthcare institutions, and only the remaining 15%—serious and complex conditions—will require care at large hospitals.” When the information superhighway of the “Three-Medical Linkage” reform is fully operational and a patient-centered healthcare service system is effectively implemented, hundreds of millions of people will truly reap the health dividends, making access to medical care no longer a challenge.