Call for Submissions: 2018 Best Practices in Grassroots Healthcare Innovation – 'New Constructs' Initiative Launched

Chaos is the primordial state of all things; aggregation, fracturing, and displacement will ultimately resolve into order.

Primary healthcare constitutes the most fundamental and critical component of the overall healthcare system. The industrial upgrading and transition of this sector follow an initial tectonic trajectory, evolving, distributing, and combining structurally to form a new material state.

Driven by policy support and following years of industrial upgrading and transformation in recent years, the foundational infrastructure of primary healthcare has been initially established, giving rise to innovative industry models represented by medical consortia, third-party medical services, pharmaceutical distribution and retail, new-type clinics, and community health management. This “new structure” will set the main tone for the comprehensive upgrade of primary healthcare in 2018.

These industrial models are dedicated to achieving resource sharing and addressing the lagging development of primary healthcare. They constitute a vital component in building the core competitiveness of primary healthcare and are key to strengthening the primary healthcare service system.

Attention from the healthcare industry will once again focus on primary care. The new systemic reforms will inevitably lead to the deconstruction and reshaping of China’s primary healthcare sector, which is poised to become the key entry point for patient flow in future healthcare delivery. How can we promote the downward distribution of high-quality medical resources and ensure their rational allocation, thereby achieving the health reform goal of equalizing access to basic medical services?

VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) will explore development trends in the primary healthcare industry from the perspectives of industrial policy, technological evolution, business models, and industry collaboration; share outstanding case studies of primary healthcare practices; and identify innovative medical enterprises that truly represent and are deeply rooted in primary care settings.

Seeking the Best Cases of Innovative Practices in China’s Primary Healthcare in 2018: We Are Waiting for You.

In 2018, VCBeat, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Internet Medical Systems and Applications and the Internet Healthcare Industry Alliance, launched an initiative themed “New Structure: Identifying Best Practices in China’s Primary Care.” The initiative explored development trends in the primary care sector from perspectives including industrial policy, technological evolution, business models, and industry collaboration, while soliciting practical case studies of primary care services from across the entire industry.

Following this call for submissions, VCBeat will hold the “2018 China Primary Healthcare Innovation Practice Forum” in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, from June 8 to 10, 2018, where selected outstanding case studies of primary healthcare practices will be shared on-site.

VCBeat and VBInsight are calling for submissions of primary care practice cases from healthcare service providers and innovative enterprises, with a focus on areas such as medical consortia, telemedicine, chain clinics, pharmaceutical retail, third-party medical services, and health management.

This call for submissions will analyze and evaluate cases from multiple dimensions, including industrial policy, business model feasibility, technological advancement, breadth of grassroots coverage, and effectiveness of grassroots adoption. It will also conduct research on innovative enterprises in the grassroots healthcare sector and engage experts for review, with the aim of mapping out the new landscape of China’s grassroots healthcare industry development.

Outstanding cases will be featured in the “Grassroots Medical Innovation Practices” article series and promoted across VCBeat’s official website, official WeChat account, event website, and media matrix, reaching over 100,000 VCBeat industry professionals, more than 1,000 investors, and over 2,000 industry stakeholders.

VCBeat and Eggshell Research Institute will organize experts to evaluate outstanding enterprises with innovative practices in primary healthcare. During this event, VCBeat will present awards to the selected excellent practice cases and their affiliated organizations. Representatives of some outstanding cases will be invited to deliver keynote speeches at the “2018 China Primary Healthcare Innovation Practice Forum.”

Registration Period:April 2, 2018 – May 20, 2018

Call for Outstanding Practice Cases from Grassroots Healthcare Innovation Enterprises.

Report Time:April 2, 2018 – May 20, 2018

Select outstanding cases from the applicant companies and roll out special reports in succession.

Forums Participated In:June 8-10, 2018

Had the opportunity to participate in the "2017 China Primary Healthcare Innovation Practice Forum" and deliver an on-site presentation.

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VCBeat is committed to building a platform for sharing innovative practices in China’s primary healthcare, a platform for releasing innovation trends in China’s primary healthcare industry, and a platform for showcasing outstanding institutions in China’s primary healthcare sector. The five major forums at this Primary Healthcare Conference featured the following hotly debated topics:

(1) Forum on Innovation and Practical Development of Medical Consortia

This forum will invite leaders from relevant government agencies, administrators of medical institutions at all levels, senior executives of listed companies involved in Medical Consortiums, and professionals from innovative enterprises. The discussions will focus on the construction and development of Medical Consortiums, collaboration and development among medical institutions at various levels within these consortiums, and the informatization of Medical Consortiums. The content includes:

1. Release of the White Paper on Innovative Practices in Primary Healthcare;

2. Interpretation of Policies Related to the Construction and Development of Medical Consortiums;

3. Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Data Infrastructure Development for Medical Consortiums;

4. Positioning and Development of Hospitals at All Levels under the Urban Medical Group Model;

5. Division of labor and collaboration mechanism among county, township, and village-level medical and health institutions under the medical community model;

6. Case Studies on the Innovative Development of Community Health Service Centers under the Medical Consortium Model;

7. Innovation in the collaboration models of cross-regional specialty alliances;

8. Exploration of Remote Education and Training Models for Physicians Based on Telemedicine Collaboration Networks;

9. How to build a closed-loop medical ecosystem integrating healthcare and pharmaceuticals through remote care models;

10. Pharmaceutical Alliances + Medical Consortiums: Will They Be the Next Breakout Point?

11. Innovative Integration of Physician Groups and Medical Alliances;

12. An Exploration of the Models Behind the Rapid Development of Specialized Medical Consortia;

13. Case Studies on the Practice of Close-Knit Medical Consortiums;

14. Strategies for Healthcare IT Companies in the Development of Medical Consortiums

(2) Third-Party Medical Services Innovation Forum

This forum will focus on discussions regarding the current development status and models of third-party medical services, as well as collaboration with traditional large public hospitals and primary healthcare institutions. The content includes:

1. Analysis of the Leapfrog Development Trend in Third-Party Medical Services;

2. Development Models and Business Opportunities for Health Checkup Service Providers in the New Era;

3. Opportunities for third-party testing centers in primary healthcare;

4. The CRO Boom Has Arrived: How to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff?

5. Survival and Development of Third-Party Independent Medical Laboratories;

6. The Hemodialysis Service Industry—A New Blue Ocean in the Medical Field.

(3) Pharmaceutical Retail Development Forum

This forum will feature a half-day discussion centered on topics such as capturing the prescription outflow market and exploring the “pharmaceutical retail + commercial insurance” model. The agenda includes:

1. A Complex Science Management Perspective on New Retail in the Pharmaceutical Industry;

2. Marketing Strategies for Pharmaceutical Retail Chain Pharmacies;

3. New Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Logistics from the Perspective of Differences Between China and Foreign Countries;

4. The DTP Model Is Poised for Rise: How to Embrace New Growth;

5. Analysis of the Integration Model Between Pharmaceutical Retail and Insurance;

6. Future adherence management will become the core competitiveness of pharmacies; 7. Mastering the new “e-commerce + healthcare” model.

(4) Frontier Forum on the Development of New Clinics

This half-day forum will focus on topics such as the expansion and standardization of new chain clinics, business models, and operational costs. The agenda includes:

1. How Chain Clinics Expand Their Territory;

2. The New Digital Frontier for Modern Clinics;

3. Internet Healthcare Explores New Entry Points;

4. Clinic Layout of Large Corporations;

5. Transformation in the Clinic Industry: How to Empower Monetization for Primary Healthcare Institutions;

6. Unveiling the Structure of the Clinic Management Framework;

7. Research on the Current Development Status and Distribution of Clinic Institutions in China.

(5) Community Health Management Forum

This forum will explore hot topics such as “Implementation of Community Health Management” and “Insurance + Health Management,” centering its discussions on the theme of “Innovation in Health Management Products and Service Implementation.” The agenda includes:

1. The Logic of Venture Capital Investment in the Healthcare Industry;

2. Analysis by Healthcare Investors on the Operation of Community Healthcare and Chronic Disease Management;

3. Discussion on Technologies, Models, and Investment in Community Healthcare and Chronic Disease Management;

4. Internet+ Health Management: Applications and Practices;

5. Intelligent health management makes staying healthy simpler.