Yizhitong Launches Internet-Based Tiered Dermatology Diagnosis Platform in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

On the afternoon of June 14, the National Dermatology Experts Tianjin Development Alliance was officially established in Tianjin. Concurrently, the Yizhitong Internet-based Specialized Dermatology Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment Platform for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region was formally launched.

Dermatology Is More Suited for Internet-Based Medical Consultations

The inaugural panel of experts for the Tianjin Development Alliance of National Dermatology Specialists comprises members from over 30 Grade IIIA hospitals in Tianjin. Concurrently launched, the Yizhitong Internet Platform for Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment of Specialized Dermatological Conditions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region will leverage the Alliance’s resource advantages while further integrating dermatology expertise across the region. This initiative aims to facilitate cross-regional and cross-institutional technical collaboration among dermatologists, explore multi-site medical practice models, advance the tiered diagnosis and treatment system for specialized skin diseases, and serve a broader population of dermatology patients in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and throughout China.

Professor Zhu Xuejun, a dermatology expert, stated that the Internet era has brought significant benefits to the development of dermatology. As a discipline primarily based on morphology, dermatology allows for diagnosis even from a single photograph. The Tianjin Development Alliance and the Yizhitong Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment Platform have catered to the developments and needs of the Internet, information, and big data eras, holding very broad prospects.

Liu Quanzhong, Chairman of the Alliance, stated that the collaboration with Yizhitong represents a synergy and integration between top-tier experts and grassroots resources. “Yizhitong has laid a solid foundation in Tianjin over the past six-plus years, cultivating an extensive base of patients and physicians within community hospitals. Our alliance will enhance this effort, ensuring that patients in mountainous and underserved areas can access services provided by the Alliance’s expert specialists.”

As China’s earliest internet healthcare enterprise to establish a provincial-level appointment and diagnosis platform, Yizhitong, driven by the national “Internet Plus” action plan, has taken the lead in exploring a new model of integrated medical services for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Today, it held in Tianjin the launch ceremony for China’s first Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Internet Hospital Physician Group, gathering a large number of top medical expert teams as well as physician teams from public hospitals at all levels and grassroots institutions. By pioneering the “medical shared economy model,” it will promote the decentralization of more tiered diagnosis and treatment programs for specific diseases to community levels.

The establishment of the Dermatology Expert Alliance and the launch of its platform represent an initiative to integrate medical alliance resources with internet technology. This effort will not only advance academic exchange and discourse in dermatology, thereby elevating academic standards, but also enhance the informatization level of smart healthcare in areas such as internet-based tiered diagnosis and treatment and remote consultations. By exploring a dermatological health service model with Chinese characteristics, this initiative aims to build a specialized vertical service platform under the “Internet + Smart Healthcare” framework to support healthcare reform.

At the press conference, dermatology experts from Tianjin stated that mobile healthcare serves as a powerful “lever” for implementing tiered diagnosis and treatment. Compared with broad, general-purpose medical service platforms, internet healthcare platforms focusing on specialized vertical segments are demonstrating increasingly prominent advantages.

Implementing Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment in Vertical Disease-Specific Fields

Li Hao, founder of Yi Zhi Tong, believes that the Internet-based specialized dermatology diagnosis and treatment platform for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region integrates high-quality medical resources and promotes their “downward” distribution, thereby enabling thorough circulation of healthcare resources. This approach not only addresses issues such as talent shortages and limited professional expertise at primary-care hospitals but, more importantly, enhances communication among dermatology experts from tertiary Grade A hospitals, dermatologists at primary-care hospitals, and patients.

“I believe that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Internet Platform for Diagnosis and Treatment of Specific Skin Diseases will become an important milestone in promoting tiered diagnosis and treatment through the ‘Internet+’ model within the vertical specialty of dermatology. Moving forward, Yizhitong will leverage its specialized online dermatology platform to collaborate with multiple renowned professional medical institutions in the field of dermatology across China, jointly establishing China’s first—and to date, the world’s largest—cloud computing big data atlas of skin diseases, a dermatopathology database, and a shared, interconnected archive of skin disease cases.”

Currently, the Yizhitong Outpatient Hall Internet Hospital has covered more than 700 public hospitals across five provinces and seven cities, including Tianjin, Beijing, Guangdong, Shenyang, and Guizhou. It offers an average of 28,000 daily appointment slots across various departments, providing access to over 200,000 appointments with medical experts. As China’s first fully appointment-based platform enabling reservations for diagnostic departments, hospital beds, and surgeries at Grade A tertiary hospitals nationwide, Yizhitong currently provides an average of 26,000 daily appointment slots for diagnostic departments and over 5,000 hospital bed reservations. This system implements the healthcare principles of “first-come, first-served” and “triage between acute and chronic conditions,” thereby facilitating greater convenience for patients seeking medical care.