2018 Innovative Healthcare Industry Online Voting Campaign Launches with 50+ Candidates — Who Made the List?

At the end of 2015, VCBeat released the “Internet Healthcare Annual Influential Figures List,” an annual summary and recognition of influential entities conducted from the perspective of promoting industry development by a professional medical industry media outlet.

Three years later, the “Internet Healthcare Annual Influential List” had long evolved into the “Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies.” This list features refined business categories, enhanced industry endorsements, and expanded reach, serving as an annual summary of industrial development by media outlets, industry observers, and leading experts.

However, as the most critical component of the entire healthcare industry—comprising over one million practitioners—how did they perceive the landscape of the healthcare sector in 2018? Did these trends benefit or hinder companies across various fields? Within their respective business domains, which enterprises and key figures do they frequently monitor and benchmark against?

We hope to have a ranking that quantifies the development of the industry from the perspective of industry practitioners.. Therefore, on the eve of the "Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies" event, we have specially planned“2018 Innovative Healthcare Industry Online Voting Campaign,” aiming to incorporate the observations, insights, and perspectives of industry participants on innovation and entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector into this selection process., thereby outlining a complete picture of the healthcare industry’s development in 2018 alongside the Top 100 list.

Two major awards were established for this event: the “2018 Future Healthcare Industry Brand to Watch” and the “2018 Future Healthcare Industry Person to Watch.” The rankings were determined solely by online voting among industry professionals. Following an initial phase of self-nominations and expert recommendations, 57 candidate enterprises for the “2018 Future Healthcare Industry Brand to Watch” and 22 candidates for the “2018 Future Healthcare Industry Person to Watch” were finalized. They will compete for the awards during a 12-day voting period.

(Click the QR code to vote; each person is allowed 5 votes per day. The candidate list can be accessed by scrolling directly to the end of the article.)

Based on voluntary corporate registrations, we conducted a comprehensive evaluation across five dimensions—brand valuation, the VCBeat backend database, frequency of hotspot events, online search indices, and expert think tank ratings—to identify 50 candidate brands, thereby offering insights into the industrial development trends of 2018.

Internet Healthcare Companies: Deepening Offline Presence, Comprehensive Strategic Layout

In the internet healthcare sector, most of the selected companies have been established for more than three years, boasting long-term user accumulation and relatively mature business models. In 2018, they deepened their expansion into offline operations and implemented multi-faceted strategic layouts. Consequently, we have successively observed:

WeDoctorFollowing the launch of its first general practice clinic, the company continued to deploy internet-based medical consortia across China; invested RMB 200 million to build a collaborative sharing platform in the Greater Bay Area; and signed a major agreement with Lihe Medical to establish China’s first intelligent medical supply chain and procurement platform.

Haodf OnlineContinuing to deepen its engagement in primary healthcare, following the signing of Yinchuan First People’s Hospital as its offline base hospital, it joined forces with more than 40 internet healthcare innovation enterprises and institutions to announce the establishment of an industry association in Yinchuan—the Yinchuan Internet + Medical Health Association.

DXYPartnering with MORE Health to build an international telemedicine consultation platform, and jointly launching the China Healthcare Brand Management Alliance, which has already attracted more than 200 Grade-A tertiary hospitals.

Heart Doctor InternationalA provider of innovative medical services in China, with eight years of deep expertise in internet-based hospital informationization construction and services.As the telemedicine operations service provider for over 5,700 hospitals across 31 provinces in China,Xinyi InternationalHave successively undertaken the construction ofDemonstration Projects for Provincial Telemedicine Platforms in Qinghai, Henan, Guizhou, and Shanxi Provinces.As of May this year, a total of 36,000 remote consultations and nearly 190,000 remote diagnoses have been conducted in Guizhou, with nearly 300,000 person-times participating in remote training; among these, over 21,000 remote consultations were carried out.

As leading enterprises in the internet healthcare industry, their actions also foreshadow and represent the future direction of internet healthcare: deeply penetrating into the core of medical services, integrating with offline resources, establishing an offline presence, and securing key traffic entry points.

The Great Boom in the Medical AI Sector

After three years of technological accumulation, startups in the field of medical artificial intelligence began to focus on product implementation and commercial monetization. Aligning with national policy directives, the sector experienced a significant boom in 2018.

CloudMindsAfter securing $100 million in Series A financing,Relying on artificial intelligence technology to develop intelligent service robots, it has gradually become a core enterprise of the cloud-based intelligent robot platform.

Voxel TechnologyAfter completing a RMB 100 million Series A+ financing round, the company built an AI-powered product line covering all disease categories and partnered with Xingxiangyuan to leverage medical AI for health management;

InfervisionFollowing the completion of a new RMB 300 million financing round in March this year, the company has accelerated the deployment, expansion, and internationalization of its products. Among the top 10 hospitals in the Fudan University Hospital Rankings, Infervision’s AI solutions have been deployed in seven; among the top 50 hospitals, Infervision’s AI systems have been implemented in 25.

Furthermore, large-scale financing rounds have become frequent, while the IPO market has maintained steady progress.Ping An Good DoctorListed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming China’s first publicly traded internet healthcare company; WeDoctor completed a $500 million Pre-IPO financing round, reaching a valuation of $5.5 billion;Rendong MedicineRMB 75 million in Series A financing to provide an integrated solution ranging from companion diagnostics to immuno-diagnostics and therapy;DXYCompleted Series D financing, with a corporate valuation exceeding $1 billion...

This award is designed for industry professionals who demonstrate innovative thinking and are dedicated to driving innovation within healthcare institutions. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the medical and health industry, candidates are initially selected based on a comprehensive assessment of their strategic vision, innovative mindset, practical implementation capabilities, and industry influence demonstrated by Chinese healthcare professionals in this process.

Among the 20 candidates, one has secured the largest single investment of RMB 800 million in tumor genetic testing.Zhou Jun, CEO of Huirui Gene; having achieved a successful IPO in the NIPT sector, it is now embarking on a comprehensive layout across the entire industry chain, single-handedly igniting the entire genetic testing universe.Zhou Daixing, CEO of Berry Genomics; China's earliest initiative to bring doctors onlineWang Hang, Founder of Haodf.com; With 15 million users at his fingertips, he led Yihaodian to a successful IPO in the United States.Yu Gang, Chairman of 111.com……

Each person may cast five votes per day for both the Brand and Personality categories. Selected companies will receive the following benefits:

Voting Deadline: November 28–December 9, 2018

Award Announcement Date: December 11, 2018

Note: Deliberate violations of the principles of fairness and impartiality, such as fraudulent voting, are strictly prohibited. Upon verification, the eligibility of the concerned enterprise or individual for evaluation will be revoked.