The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the accelerator that China's health care technology start-ups needed.
"Really after the serious stage of the pandemic ..., the central government and the local government they delivered a lot of different policies to help the internet hospitals," Tang Bochen, vice president at Qi'e XingRen, also known as Tencent Trusted Doctor, said in a phone interview on Sunday. "What I saw was almost every city, their public hospitals are now building up an internet hospital system to help their patients from offline to online.
"A key indicator in telehealth's momentum in China is integration with basic medical health insurance program," Wang said. "You're seeing insurance companies and hospitals and governments all form telehealth platforms themselves. I think it's increasingly a crowded space. The platform players, like JD Health, Ping An, WeDoctor are probably the ones that are going to continue to play.
The company works with local pharmacies to sell medicine, and also has an online consultation program. Since the coronavirus outbreak, the proportion of its users age 40 or older has increased to more than half, the company said.
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