WeDoctor Launches 'Dajia Bang' to Monetize Medical Expertise and Expand Health Knowledge Sharing

VCBeat has recently learned that WeDoctor, an internet healthcare “unicorn,” has launched a new Q&A product focused on the medical and health sector called “Da Jia Bang” (Everyone Helps), aiming to meet the needs of patients and health-conscious users for rapid and comprehensive answers to disease-related inquiries. Meanwhile, Da Jia Bang also serves as a platform for doctors and health account holders to monetize their knowledge and enhance their brand influence.

WeDoctor selects experts with patient education backgrounds and high online engagement from its network of 2,400 key hospitals and over 260,000 real-name registered physicians to serve as respondents for the “Da Jia Bang” service. In addition, WeDoctor has established an evaluation system for certified physicians: metrics such as the frequency of services provided on the platform, response speed, and interaction rate with users in the “Yi Yan Tang” community are all recorded as data in the platform’s database.

To become a responder on “Da Jia Bang,” one must first pass Weiyi’s rigorous credential verification to become a verified “Health Account” holder, thereby qualifying to provide professional answers to patients. This ensures the professionalism and authority of the content provided on “Da Jia Bang.”

According to available data, WeDoctor launched “Health Account,” a self-media platform dedicated to the healthcare sector, in July of this year. Currently, content creators on “Health Account” span more than 160 medical specialties, cover over 5,000 common diseases, and include physicians with associate senior professional titles or higher accounting for more than 80%.

With this, the multi-functional platform product “Yi Yan Tang,” which integrates community interaction, an open self-media platform, paid knowledge Q&A, video lectures, a medical encyclopedia, and health news, has completed its iteration.

“Health Account” owners build brand awareness among patients through content creation and fan engagement. “Dajiabang” provides these account owners with a platform to monetize their expertise by offering paid responses to patient inquiries. This enables them to effectively address patients’ practical concerns, build positive reputations, gain multi-channel exposure, and enhance their brand influence.

Dr. Hu Yang, an attending physician in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, has published more than 200 health-related articles since joining the “Health Account” platform, accumulating 14,000 followers. He leverages fragmented time from his daily routine to provide professional knowledge to patients and users, earning their recognition. Many patients discovered him through articles on the “Health Account” and subsequently asked him paid questions via the “Da Jia Bang” feature. Dr. Yu Anle, a hospitalist surgeon at Weixian Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, shares popular science education in his areas of expertise on “Da Jia Bang,” prompting users to ask him targeted paid questions after reading his posts.

The launch of WeDoctor’s self-media “Health Accounts” has significantly expanded the scope of health service providers on the platform. All professional health practitioners—including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychological counselors, dietitians, and fitness coaches—who comply with platform standards and have obtained platform certification, as well as health-focused media outlets and institutions, are eligible to join Health Accounts and become contributors to “Da Jia Bang.” Their participation has also enabled “Da Jia Bang” to extend its service capabilities from the realm of disease management to broader lifestyle and wellness areas.

The diversity of content has empowered contributors to unleash greater knowledge-sharing capacity, transforming “Dajia Bang” into a true platform for knowledge exchange. Operational data indicate that many users post questions on Dajia Bang related to their daily lives. The humorous yet professional responses from doctors and experts have garnered widespread attention.

“As a self-media platform dedicated to the healthcare sector, Health Account leverages WeDoctor’s technological advantages in internet services and medical artificial intelligence to precisely distribute high-quality health content and professional medical knowledge, providing the public with autonomous and continuous healthcare services,” said Liao Jieyuan, founder of WeDoctor.

WeDoctor holds a leading advantage in medical AI. Public records indicate that Liao Jieyuan is also one of the founders of China’s intelligent speech recognition industry and the designer of China’s first intelligent speech computer. The speech recognition/speech synthesis software and intelligent speech computer he spearheaded in development were honored with the Representative Achievement Award of the “National Torch Program.”

At the inaugural International Intelligent Healthcare Conference held on November 15, WeDoctor prominently unveiled two major medical artificial intelligence products developed based on WeDoctor Cloud: “Ruiyi Intelligent Doctor” and “Huatuo Intelligent Doctor.” After more than a year of deep learning training on millions of high-quality datasets, Ruiyi Intelligent Doctor has achieved key breakthroughs in over ten specialty areas, including pulmonary nodule detection, diabetic retinopathy screening, cervical cancer screening, bone age assessment, and general practice auxiliary diagnosis and treatment. Notably, its accuracy and sensitivity in cervical cancer screening surpass those of clinical physicians. For the binary classification of AI-driven diabetic retinopathy, the specificity reaches 99% and sensitivity 95% across most datasets, outperforming tech giant Google and achieving an internationally leading level.

WeDoctor is opening up its capabilities in medical artificial intelligence to users. The big data accumulated by “Da Jia Bang” not only provides a data foundation for the development of medical AI, but also helps users find similar questions and answers more quickly, ensuring that inquiries are routed more precisely to suitable respondents. Furthermore, the application of intelligent doctor systems can enhance physicians’ efficiency and reduce the time users spend obtaining accurate health information.