WeDoctor Launches Northwest China's First HMO Base in Xi'an's Baqiao District with 'Baqiao Model' Under 'One Body, Two Wings, Three Networks' Framework

Figure caption: Miao Zhizhong (left), District Mayor of Baqiao District, Xi’an, and Yang Jianchun (right), Vice President of WeDoctor Group and Executive Director of Wuzhen Internet Hospital, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective parties.

On October 24, the second “Global Programmer Festival” kicked off in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province. At this premier gathering of the world’s digital builders, the People’s Government of Baqiao District, Xi’an—as part of the city’s key investment attraction initiatives—formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement with WeDoctor Group, an internationally leading healthcare technology platform. The two parties will jointly establish the first HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) base in Northwest China, delivering high-quality, one-stop intelligent healthcare services to the 640,000 residents of Baqiao District.

Under the agreement, WeDoctor will establish the Xi’an WeDoctor Internet Hospital platform under the guidance of the Baqiao District People’s Government and the District Health and Family Planning Bureau. Leveraging this internet hospital as a service hub, it will build a district-wide regional third-party service and management platform that integrates the three core systems of healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, and medical insurance. Together, these efforts will create an HMO system featuring “one entity, two wings, and three networks,” providing residents of Baqiao District with comprehensive general practice and specialty care, delivered through both online and offline channels.

“The Integrated Entity” refers to a “homogenized tiered diagnosis and treatment network” under the regional medical consortium, encompassing homogenization in diagnosis and treatment, laboratory and imaging examinations, and pharmaceutical supply. It establishes a management mechanism featuring operational linkage, mutual benefit from complementary strengths, and continuity of disease diagnosis and treatment between secondary-and-above hospitals and primary healthcare institutions. This facilitates the rational allocation of medical resources, promotes equitable access to medical services, fosters an orderly patient flow, and effectively alleviates the challenges of difficult and costly access to healthcare for the public.

“The Two Wings” comprise the “Medical and Health Information Sharing Network,” which serves the homogenized tiered diagnosis and treatment network, and the “Collaborative Regulation Network.” Supported by WeDoctor Cloud technology, the “Information Sharing Network” establishes unified cloud platforms—including the Population Health Information Cloud, Hospital Cloud, Primary Healthcare Cloud, and AI Cloud—to enable patients to seek medical care in a more time-efficient, labor-saving, and precise manner, while empowering physicians to practice evidence-based medicine leveraging big data applications.

“Collaborative Control Network” is a third-party cost-control and tri-medical affairs regulation platform, built upon WeDoctor’s innovative internet-based cost-containment pathways and integrated with traditional cost-control methods. It serves as an economic lever to promote the decentralization of healthcare resources and payment mechanisms, seamlessly integrates basic medical insurance with commercial health insurance, and enhances the level of public medical security.

Shifting the focus from disease treatment to health management is a key objective of tiered diagnosis and treatment. Against the backdrop of the nation’s vigorous promotion of “Internet + Healthcare,” technologies such as the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence have become the breakthrough points for achieving this goal.

Miao Zhizhong, District Mayor of Baqiao District in Xi’an, stated that the establishment of the Baqiao HMO Base is a significant practice in response to national, provincial, and municipal strategic plans for healthcare development. By leveraging technologies such as the internet and big data, the initiative aims to address common concerns and frustrations faced by residents during medical consultations, enabling people in Baqiao to access safe, efficient, convenient, comprehensive, and high-quality healthcare services right at their doorstep. It is believed that this will open up new avenues for the development of “Internet + Healthcare” in Xi’an and drive a new upgrade in industrial services within the “Internet + Healthcare” sector.

“The HMO health service system in Baqiao District consists of a three-tiered service structure comprising ‘network, base, and terminal,’ concentrating the medical service capabilities and operational management expertise accumulated by WeDoctor over eight years for large-scale, standardized implementation in Baqiao District,” introduced Yang Jianchun, Vice President of WeDoctor Group and Executive Dean of Wuzhen Internet Hospital. “Leveraging Xi’an WeDoctor Internet Hospital as the service ‘hub,’ we efficiently organize medical supply capabilities to help residents access quality care and achieve better health outcomes, serving as the ‘health gatekeepers’ for the people of Baqiao District.”

It is understood that, as an internationally leading healthcare technology platform, WeDoctor has pioneered the creation of a Chinese-style HMO. This system is built upon offline service bases such as WeDoctor General Practice Centers, internet hospitals, and medical consortiums. It leverages cloud-based HIS to integrate with the WeDoctor platform’s capabilities upstream, while utilizing intelligent health terminals downstream to provide “online + offline” and “general practice + specialty” healthcare services to individuals, families, and institutions. Currently, the WeDoctor platform connects 240,000 doctors from 2,700 hospitals across 30 provinces in China, with over 180 million real-name registered users and more than 690 million cumulative service encounters.

Furthermore, under the guidance of provincial and municipal governments and the Health and Family Planning Commission, WeDoctor will deepen its cooperation with the People’s Government of Baqiao District, Xi’an. Leveraging the construction and operation of the HMO health service system and smart city-related sectors as engines for the health industry, and relying on the local health industrial park as a physical foundation, both parties will jointly transform Baqiao District into a core functional zone and a demonstration area for regional big health industry development. This initiative aims to enhance Xi’an’s demonstrative impact in national smart city development and promote the advancement of healthcare services in Northwest China.