WeDoctor Signs Precision Poverty Alleviation Agreement with Zhaojue County at World Internet Conference to Build Internet-Based Medical Consortium Platform

VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that on the morning of December 4, the “Sharing the Dividends: Internet-Based Targeted Poverty Alleviation” forum, hosted by the China Internet Development Foundation and the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, was held at the Wuzhen World Internet Conference Center during the 4th World Internet Conference. At the event, WeDoctor, a leading national intelligent healthcare platform, signed an agreement with Zhaojue County in Sichuan Province to establish a paired assistance partnership, pooling efforts to tackle poverty alleviation tasks in deeply impoverished areas.

Ren Xianliang, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China; Liu Yongfu, Director of the Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development under the State Council of China; Nicholas Rosellini, UNDP Resident Representative in China; Richard Liu, CEO of JD.com; and Eric Jing, CEO of Ant Financial, along with representatives from international organizations, governments, enterprises, and experts from various countries, attended the conference to discuss strategies for bridging the digital divide and promoting global sustainable development.

At the meeting,Liao Jieyuan, Founder of WeDoctor, Shares the “WeDoctor Model” for Internet-Based Poverty Alleviation。

Liao Jieyuan stated, “In our targeted health poverty alleviation efforts, we have implemented three key initiatives: first, specialized telemedicine, leveraging remote medical technologies to enable specialists to assist residents in impoverished areas with diagnosis and treatment; second, drug supply, through collaborations with major domestic and international pharmaceutical companies to ensure access to affordable medications; and third, the establishment of an internet hospital collaboration platform to facilitate coordination among physicians at municipal, county, and township levels, thereby providing continuous medical services to the impoverished population.”

The key to alleviating the current dilemma of “difficulty in accessing medical care” in China and ensuring the genuine implementation of tiered diagnosis and treatment lies in “strengthening primary healthcare.”

At the signing ceremony for the launch of the paired assistance program for poverty alleviation through internet-based initiatives held at the conference,WeDoctor Signs Agreement on Internet Healthcare for Targeted Poverty Alleviation with Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, helping local hospitals build their own Internet-based medical consortium platforms. These platforms can integrate with WeDoctor’s current network of more than 2,400 hospitals, 260,000 physicians, and 7,400 expert teams across China, enabling online follow-up consultations, remote consultations, collaborative care by expert teams, two-way referrals, online prescription and medication delivery, health education, and other internet-based medical services, thereby addressing the challenge of poverty caused or exacerbated by illness.

Liao Jieyuan believes that the key to poverty alleviation lies in increasing income sources and plugging gaps.“WeDoctor leverages the internet to extend high-quality medical resources to impoverished areas, while also harnessing medical artificial intelligence to continuously enhance the capabilities of physicians in underdeveloped regions.”At the World Internet Conference, Liao Jieyuan also called on the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to establish a health poverty alleviation fund and build a platform for health-focused poverty relief.

It is reported that the collaboration with Zhaojue County was not the first application of WeDoctor’s “health poverty alleviation” model. In 2017, WeDoctor launched “health poverty alleviation” projects in key poverty-stricken counties, including Guangshan County in Henan Province, Ningshan County in Shaanxi Province, and Nanzhang County and Gucheng County in Hubei Province, in partnership with their respective local people’s governments. Tailored to local conditions, these initiatives involved deploying multiple platforms such as internet-based medical consortia, family doctor contract services, and remote consultation workstations, thereby implementing a systematic approach to health-focused poverty alleviation.

Leveraging the Internet and artificial intelligence, WeDoctor’s innovative model is emerging as a new force in China’s health-focused poverty alleviation efforts.