Ping An Launches 1,000 Shared Medical Testing Centers with RMB 30 Billion Investment Over Five Years Under Innovative 'Trinity' Model
“Big Healthcare” has always been one of the two key strategic pillars of Ping An’s development. Ma Mingzhe, Chairman and CEO of Ping An Group, places great emphasis on technology and ecosystem building, consistently focusing innovative technologies on the two major sectors of big financial assets and big healthcare.
He stated that, driven by the dual engines of “finance + technology,” Ping An is building an innovative “healthcare ecosystem” across China. By optimizing the allocation of medical resources and establishing a diversified landscape for privately run healthcare institutions, the company aims to achieve industry-wide sharing of medical resources and enhance the quality of medical services. Meanwhile, Ping An Group remains committed to placing customer experience at its core, upholding its brand philosophy of “Professionalism Makes Life Simpler,” and continuously optimizing its products and services to create value for customers.
On October 17, the national launch ceremony and strategic press conference for Ping An Health (Testing) Center’s “100 Free Clinic Public Welfare Campaign” was held. At the event, the white paper on the third-party medical diagnostics industry, titled “Diversified Sharing: New Momentum for Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment,” was released. On the same day, the Wuhan Flagship Center officially opened.
Focusing on medical imaging diagnostic centers, independent clinical laboratories, and pathology diagnostic centers, this study examines Ping An Health (Testing) Center’s self-developed “trinity” healthcare service model, offering new business model cases and inspirational insights for the healthcare industry.
In recent years, the Chinese government has continuously introduced policies to vigorously promote the development of the health industry. Third-party medical services have also become a key focus in the national push for tiered diagnosis and treatment and in encouraging private investment in healthcare. In response to these national policies and in alignment with the group’s strategic objectives, Ping An International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Ping An Leasing”), a subsidiary of Ping An Group, has leveraged its extensive experience in the healthcare sector and its resource advantages in equipment leasing to establish Ping An Health (Diagnostic) Centers. This initiative aims to facilitate the effective implementation of the national tiered diagnosis and treatment policy.
For the traditional healthcare system, the emergence of Ping An Health Checkup Center has fully leveraged its role as a third-party medical provider, strengthening investments and empowerment in medical resources, technological R&D, and model innovation, thereby facilitating the establishment of a tiered diagnosis and treatment system and a diversified landscape for healthcare delivery.According to data from the National Health and Family Planning Commission, by the end of 2017, there were 1,151 tertiary hospitals and 4,321 secondary hospitals nationwide. Based on the common configuration of one tertiary hospital and two secondary hospitals per county or city, the deployment of 1,000 Ping An Health (Testing) Centers would basically cover all major counties and cities.
Meanwhile, as the core hub of the Group’s healthcare sector, it also serves as the “medical ecosystem” that represents the vertical focus of Ping An Leasing’s “Dual-T Strategy.” By adopting the “Sky, Ground, People, Multi, and Strong” strategy, it has achieved multiple industry firsts and pioneered an innovative path for private healthcare provision. “Sky” refers to the Sky Network, i.e., the smart medical cloud platform; “Ground” refers to the Ground Network, representing a nationwide on-the-ground service network; “People” refers to the People Network, which brings together authoritative experts; “Multi” refers to multi-sector operations, building a shared medical platform on the basis of the “trinity” model; and “Strong” refers to strong technology, applying cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence in services to enhance the patient experience.
Ping An Health (Check-up) Center pioneered China’s first “trinity” innovative business model integrating imaging diagnosis, medical laboratory testing, and precision examinations. In the field of imaging diagnosis, it has established a dedicated team of medical professionals comprising authoritative experts from tertiary hospitals as well as mid-career and young backbone staff, while making substantial investments in introducing world-class medical equipment to ensure robust medical quality.
In the field of medical laboratory testing, through strategic collaborations with world-leading medical testing service providers, we have introduced internationally advanced business processes and management systems to deliver more comprehensive, higher-quality, faster, and more cost-effective medical laboratory testing and pathological diagnostic services to our clients.
In the realm of precision diagnostics, leveraging our professional expertise in medical imaging and laboratory testing, we deliver “clinically-grade” in-depth examinations and “gold-standard” diagnostic accuracy. By integrating high-quality services that embody both humanistic and medical care with intelligent big data analytics, we provide clients with health screening services that are truly “meaningful and compassionate.”
Over the next five years, Ping An Leasing plans to invest RMB 30 billion to establish 1,000 Ping An Health (Diagnostic) Centers across China. By building a shared medical platform, it will collaborate with healthcare service providers in various specialized medical fields to achieve differentiated complementarity and synergistic win-win outcomes.
By integrating the medical resources of Ping An Group and leveraging its intelligent technology platform, Ping An Health (Testing) Center significantly enhances patient experience through convenient mobile services, facial recognition, LBS-based in-building navigation for medical visits, and medical AI technologies. Meanwhile, centered on its self-developed imaging cloud platform, it has established the “Ping An Good Imaging” and “Ping An Good Laboratory Testing” ecosystems, connecting online platforms with offline physical services to support smart imaging cities and deliver a new era of convenient, efficient, and high-quality medical services for customers.
Ping An Health (Testing) Center has also joined forces with Ping An Medical Technology to establish a joint AI laboratory, focusing on key research areas such as AI-based disease screening, enhancing medical quality and efficiency, reducing misdiagnosis rates, and lowering healthcare costs. To date, it has achieved remarkable results in intelligent disease prediction, intelligent eye screening, and intelligent imaging diagnosis.
In addition, Ping An Health (Check-up) Center has actively responded to the national poverty alleviation initiative by participating in Ping An Group’s “Three Villages Construction Project,” leveraging its “Mobile Health Screening Vehicles + Renowned Physician Outreach Clinics” model to support health-focused poverty alleviation. To date, it has conducted 34 large-scale renowned physician outreach clinic events across 43 impoverished villages in regions such as Guangxi and Jiangxi, providing free medical examinations and expert volunteer consultation services to more than 6,000 villagers.
Leveraging Ping An Group’s strategic layout in the big health and medical sector, Ping An Health (Testing) Center implements the group’s brand philosophy, gains deep insights into users’ nuanced needs, and provides precise and reliable clinical-grade health testing services under the service concept of “Seeing You, Understanding You Better.” Committed to becoming a leader in China’s third-party health testing industry, it strives to support the development of China’s healthcare undertakings and contribute to achieving the ambitious goals of “Healthy China 2030.”