First of all, the Internet penetration into the medical industry, is the natural evolution of the Internet development of the inevitable stage - the Internet since the late 90's has impacted the paper media (portals, search), communications (IM tools), retail (e-commerce), tourism (online tourism), Finance (Internet finance), education (online education), and so on, the core vein of its development from easy to difficult to penetrate in order to have low efficiency, multiple pain points, large space, long-tail characteristics of the industry, and the medical industry is fully in line with the characteristics of such a problem involving offline medical resources, and therefore penetration is difficult, thus belonging to the Internet penetration of the traditional industry in the late product.
Secondly, China's medical resource allocation is extremely unreasonable, making the already scarce medical resources even more scarce. In China, difficult to see a doctor, expensive problems can not be solved for a long time, "waiting for three hours to see a doctor for three minutes" has become the norm, subject to the top-level design, the lack of health insurance network and hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system is unreasonable, hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system has always been difficult to land. High-quality medical resources are occupied by "minor illnesses", while primary healthcare resources are left unused (patients only trust tertiary hospitals). These inefficiencies also provide room for Internet solutions.
Finally, it goes without saying that the development of mobile Internet, the popularization of smart terminals, advances in sensor technology, and improvements in Internet infrastructure provide the ground for explosive growth in Internet healthcare.