China's First Internet-Plus Breast Disease Specialty Medical Consortium Established to Pioneer a New Model for Diagnosis and Treatment
VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that the 14th National Academic Conference on Minimally Invasive and Functional Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Diseases, hosted by the Surgical Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and the Breast Expert Committee of the Micro-Invasive and Non-Invasive Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, was held in Hohhot on August 19. At the conference, WeDoctor and the Luo Chengyu Breast Medical Group signed a framework agreement for cooperation in establishing a discipline-specific medical consortium. The two parties will collaborate to build China’s first “Internet + Breast Disease” discipline-specific medical consortium.
As outlined in the cooperation agreement, Luo Chengyu Breast Medical Group will transcend the limitations of traditional medical consortia. Leveraging WeDoctor’s platform advantages in hardware, software, platforms, services, and internet-based healthcare, the partnership will focus on the joint development of initiatives such as breast consultation centers and training centers. This collaboration aims to deliver comprehensive medical and health services within the consortium, including sharing of medical resources, remote consultations, two-way referrals, health management, discipline construction, online and offline training, and health education.
In April 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the “Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Construction and Development of Medical Consortia,” which explicitly stated that the state supports the development of medical consortia in various forms and promotes the flow of high-quality medical resources to grassroots levels and remote, impoverished areas. This collaboration is an innovative initiative in response to the national call.
WeDoctor is the largest internet healthcare platform, connecting 2,400 key hospitals, 290,000 registered doctors, and 7,300 expert medical teams across China. It provides comprehensive services including appointment registration, online consultations, electronic prescriptions, and online medication dispensing. With 172 million registered users, WeDoctor established China’s first internet hospital—the Wuzhen Internet Hospital.
The Luo Chengyu Breast Medical Group was founded by Professor Luo Chengyu, known as the “Father of Minimally Invasive Breast Surgery” and Chairman of the Breast Disease Professional Committee under the Minimally Invasive and Non-Invasive Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. As the first breast medical group in China, its expert pool includes renowned scholars and professionals from disciplines related to breast care, such as general surgery, pathology, endocrinology, lactation imaging, psychology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery, and diagnostic imaging.
Professor Luo Chengyu stated, “Both parties will leverage their complementary strengths to actively respond to the national call. By capitalizing on WeDoctor’s technological and operational advantages, we will jointly establish and operate a breast disease specialty medical consortium. This initiative aims to break through the bottlenecks of traditional medical consortia, enhance the quality and efficiency of resource sharing and capability exchange, ensure practical implementation, and truly achieve interconnectivity of medical resources.”
Li Fan, Senior Vice President of WeDoctor, proposed that through strategic alliances, the aim is to help medical groups establish efficient and tightly integrated internet-based medical consortia. This initiative seeks to genuinely enhance the radiating influence of flagship hospitals, improve the medical service capabilities of primary care institutions, and realize WeDoctor’s vision of “making healthcare accessible and health management systematic.” Additionally, Dr. Liu Baoyin, CEO of Luo Chengyu Breast Medical Group, expressed strong expectations for this collaboration.
It is understood that the two parties will jointly operate a medical consortium focused on breast health in the future. In addition to WeDoctor’s own resources, technological capabilities, and operational advantages, WeDoctor Beilian, as China’s largest maternal and child health service platform, will also support the development of this breast-health medical consortium. WeDoctor Beilian holds the only existing license for an internet-based hospital specializing in women’s and children’s healthcare in China. It has established Hos-WiFi network service partnerships with 1,500 women’s and children’s hospitals across 382 cities nationwide, covering an annual total outpatient volume of 350 million visits. The combination of WeDoctor’s professional expertise in operating internet hospitals and its nationwide pool of online specialist resources, together with the high-quality medical service delivery capacity of the Luo Chengyu Breast Medical Group, will undoubtedly provide significant momentum—“wings”—to the development of an “Internet +” breast-health medical consortium.