Sprint to the fourth quarter| future doctors merged into the medical federation, Chengdu gave birth to a super "unicorn"

At the end of 2021, good news came from Chengdu's digital economy industry——

Red Star News reporters confirmed from the Medical Federation Group that future doctors (formerly penguin almonds) have been merged into the Medical Federation Group to become a business department. After the integration of future doctors, the scale of the Internet Hospital of the Medical Federation has been further expanded, and a larger Internet medical group has been born in Chengdu.

▲Medical Association

In the future, after the integration of doctors into the Medical Federation, it will open up the online and offline closed-loop service system of Internet disease management, and will further help the development of Chengdu's digital economy industry.

linkage:

Open up the closed loop of online and offline services for Internet disease management

The goal of "Internet + online and offline integration of disease management" has a long history for the medical federation. Two or three years ago, Wang Shirui, founder and CEO of the Medical Federation, mentioned this matter in public. Why do you want to achieve the linkage of the two?

In June 2014, Wang Shirui founded the Medical Federation in Chengdu, and four years later, he was promoted to a "unicorn" enterprise. After the merger, the group has more than 1.4 million registered doctors online and more than 70 stores offline, covering 16 cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. For consumers, the Medical Union Group will further improve its service capabilities and realize the closed loop of online and offline services.

On the one hand, users of the medical association online are expected to enjoy the convenience brought by the offline future doctor's clinic, such as offline clinics to carry out blood, imaging and other testing services. On the other hand, in the future, the users of doctors' offline clinics will be included in the patient out-of-hospital management system of the medical federation, and with the help of the advantages of the medical federation's discipline construction and disease management SOP, long-term disease management and follow-up in the later stage will be carried out to truly realize the disease management of the whole cycle of "prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation" for patients.

industry:

Capital and policy support to stimulate the innovative development of Internet medical care

Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, since 2020, the public's demand for Internet medical care has surged, and Internet medical care has met the needs of most people who "can see a doctor without going out", and is one of the industries that have broken out against the trend in the epidemic. According to the data, as of June this year, there are more than 1,600 Internet hospitals nationwide.

At the moment when the epidemic prevention and control is normalized, the favorable policies and markets are also accelerating the development of the Internet medical industry. In this context, Internet hospitals have gradually begun to try more offline service integration, the degree of online and offline integration has deepened, and the entire industry has begun to work in the direction of more substantial results for patients.

The capital market is also pouring into the Internet medical field.

Taking the medical federation as an example, according to publicly disclosed data, the medical federation has received five rounds of financing from its establishment in 2014 to 2019. Behind the financing are Tencent, Sequoia China, China Renaissance Capital and other capitals. According to China Biopharmaceuticals (01177. HK) 2020 annual report, China Biopharmaceutical invested US$514 million in the Medical Federation. This means that when China Biopharmaceutical invested in the Medical Federation last year, its valuation was nearly $4 billion.

In April, Penguin Almond was upgraded to Doctor of the Future, after Penguin Almond raised $250 million in funding in 2019 and has since been valued at more than $1 billion overall.

At the policy level, more than a month ago, the National Health Commission issued the "Detailed Rules for the Supervision of Internet Diagnosis and Treatment (Draft for Comments)", which emphasizes the requirements of first prescription after drug, first diagnosis offline, and strengthening prescription supervision, which is regarded by the industry as a vane to return Internet medical treatment to the essence of medical treatment. Wang Shirui once said that in the future, the introduction of these rules will allow practitioners and institutions in the Internet medical industry to have a basis to rely on, and further promote the standardized development of the industry.

city:

Implementing gradient cultivation, Chengdu is building a national digital economy innovation and development pilot zone

The growth of "unicorn" enterprises, in addition to being related to the opportunities brought by the deep ploughing industry, is also inseparable from the support of local policies and the help of the development environment.

Wang Shirui once said in an interview with Red Star News that Chengdu has the potential and full ability to build a highland for the medical and health industry. A good platform, coupled with Chengdu's policy environment, market potential and talent reserves, has cultivated fertile soil for the development of the digital economy.

In May 2018, Chengdu launched the digital economy enterprise gradient cultivation plan, which implements gradient cultivation according to different stages of the growth cycle, and the support and services for digital economy enterprises like the medical federation are more refined.

Chengdu has always regarded enterprises as the most important strategic resources of the city, and the cultivation of enterprises as the focus of the development of the digital economy, and "unicorns" such as the Medical Federation are constantly conceived and born in Chengdu, which is actually a microcosm of the rapid development of Chengdu's digital economy.

According to public data, as of June this year, Chengdu has 7 "unicorn" enterprises and 100 "quasi-unicorn" enterprises. Among them, several companies have been successfully listed, and more digital economy innovation enterprises are on the road of "rapid growth" and "rapid progress".

According to the Information and Communications Technology Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Chengdu's digital economy index ranks fourth in the country. The outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan of Sichuan Province proposes to take digital traction as a strong driving force to promote high-quality development and accelerate the digital transformation of all fields of economy and society.

Chengdu will strive to build a national digital economy innovation and development pilot zone, a new generation of artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone, and a national artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone at a high level by 2025, and the overall development level of the digital economy will remain in the forefront of the first square in the country and become a new highland for the digital economy with international competitiveness.

It can be seen that the super "unicorns" of the digital economy industry such as the Medical Association will increasingly emerge in Chengdu in the future.

Red Star News reporter Peng Xiangping

Edited by Tan Wangyu

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