In 2018, Tencent once again adjusted its organizational structure after 2012, to make corresponding adjustments and organizational structure upgrades for the era of industrial Internet, and it is worth noting that Cloud and Smart Industry Group (CSIG) was added in this organizational structure adjustment.
Cloud and Smart Industry Group (CSIG) is responsible for promoting the company's cloud and industrial Internet strategy, relying on cloud, AI and other technological innovations to create smart industrial upgrading solutions, exploring innovative user-industry interactions, and helping to digitize and upgrade industries such as retail, healthcare, education, and transportation, as well as assisting enterprises in serving users more intelligently and building a new smart industry ecosystem that connects users and businesses.
Tencent's investment in healthcare began with mobile healthcare.
Tencent's investment in healthcare started in 2011 when the concept of mobile healthcare was first introduced, and in 2013, a large number of startups entered the market, followed by the term "mobile healthcare", which is also a hot topic in the capital market. Players such as Good Doctor Online, Dr. Chunyu, and Ding Xiangyuan were the first to enter the track. Since then, Tencent has been exploring and practicing a lot in the field of healthcare. Currently, Tencent's exploration models in the field of healthcare can be divided into two categories: self-built model and investment (cooperation) model. Currently, the layout of products in the field of big health in normal operation includes the layout based on the WeChat terminal of Tencent's products, the construction of service platforms, the release of AI+ medical products, as well as the establishment of offline clinics through joint ventures, and the cooperation and exploration in the field of digital medical innovation.
1. In 2014, WeChat Wisdom Hospital went online, firing the first shot of Tencent's self-built medical map. As early as 2012, Tencent, with its strong traffic entrance advantage, reached cooperation with thousands of hospitals across the country, launching the WeChat appointment registration, payment, waiting for treatment and other services.
WeChat Smart Hospital is based on "public number + WeChat payment", combined with WeChat's mobile e-commerce portal, in order to optimize the connection and service between doctors, hospitals and patients. The whole process includes WeChat reservation and registration, waiting reminders; WeChat navigation, effective guidance between diagnostic and treatment rooms and laboratories; WeChat payment for consultation, real-time delivery of electronic reports on WeChat, and reminder of medical advice after leaving the hospital.
2. In April 2016, Tencent established the AI Lab , in the field of medicine, aiming to launch AI medical products. Currently there are a number of AI-based medical imaging labs on the ground. Currently combined with Tencent YouTu, framing platforms and other services to Tencent foraging.
3. In June 2016, Tencent launched " Penguin Doctor" in cooperation with Medical Union and Keyway Capital. With the blossoming of offline clinics of Internet medical enterprises Ding Xiangyuan, Chunyu, Almond, Ping An, Penguin Doctor has also established Penguin Clinic offline, and Penguin Clinic has been built and landed in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hong Kong to carry out Penguin Doctor's online medical services.
4. In August 2017, Tencent launched Tencent Foraging. As Tencent's first AI product applied to the medical field, Tencent Foraging has gathered a number of top AI teams, including the AI Lab, YouTuber Lab, and Architecture Platform Department. At present, Tencent foraging through artificial intelligence medical image analysis capabilities to assist doctors reading film, has been able to accurately locate more than 3mm small lung nodules, detection rate of ≥ 95%. "Tencent Foraging can also use AI medical image analysis to assist clinicians in screening for early lung cancer, early esophageal cancer, fundus diseases, colorectal tumors, cervical cancer, breast tumors and other diseases. Tencent has established AIMIS labs in more than 10 hospitals across the country since launching its AI Medical Innovation System (AIMIS) in 2017, and will also sign agreements with more than 100 hospitals to place AIMIS systems in hospitals.
5. Tencent Cloud is Tencent's public cloud platform for enterprises and individuals, providing basic cloud computing services such as cloud servers, cloud databases, cloud storage, and domain names, as well as industry solutions such as gaming, video, and mobile applications.
In the field of medical health, Tencent Cloud mainly provides medical solutions, specifically in the construction of a universal medical and health information platform, the construction of a regional intelligent medical platform, a regional imaging cloud platform, and a regional big data cloud platform. It also builds a smart medical ecosystem that includes a smart medical platform, a remote collaboration platform, a live surgical teaching system and an image data management platform. Internet medical enterprises currently using Tencent Cloud include UW Genetics, Medical Chain, and Aier Ophthalmology.
6. In March 2018, Tencent YouTu - AI Open Platform, as an important platform for Tencent YouTu to open up its AI capabilities to the outside world, was updated with two basic capabilities of selfie scene gesture recognition, universal handwritten text recognition, and one solution of xforce+ YouTu Intelligent Taxation System.
6, short-lived and hard work "Teng Ai doctor ": in January 2015, Tencent launched intelligent hardware products "sugar doctor" blood glucose meter;
In March 2016. Tencent announced the "Teng Ai medical" strategic layout, which aims to use Internet technology to realize medical information **** enjoy. Sugar doctor, Tengai doctor, medical insurance, health information big data is known as the "four carriages". 2016 March, Tencent Tengai doctor platform and the domestic nine major doctors group signed a contract, aimed at creating a mobile information management platform in the medical field.
7. 2017 saw the launch of Wesure , a medical insurance policy underwritten by Tencent and Taikang Insurance Company. The service began piloting in November 2017 and accounts for 1 percent of WeChat users, a mere 9.63 million. To promote healthy living, WeChat's step counting feature can be linked to WeSure. Users who time more than 8,000 steps per day will receive a red packet from WeSure that can be deposited into their WeChat wallet.
But unfortunately, On March 10, 2019, the "pain love doctor" online consultation function went offline (i.e., the Tengai Doctor App and the official WeChat public number and website went completely offline), and Tencent's Tengai Doctor strategy was declared a failure.
Tencent's ambitions in the field of healthcare are not only limited to its own layout of the healthcare industry, but it has also invested heavily in the healthcare industry. Statistics on Tencent's investments in healthcare since 2014 show that Tencent's investment rounds and number of times are distributed as follows: Angels, Pre-A rounds, and small capitalization strategic investments totaled***7 times, A-C rounds***31 times, and C+ rounds and 3 times thereafter. The table of specific investment events is as follows (as of August 23, 2019):
Establishment of the "Digital Healthcare Innovation Alliance" : In May 2019, at the "2019 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference "Intelligent medical special session, Tencent's insurance platform Weibao as a co-sponsor member, the United Nations Internet hospital service providers, medical information service providers, insurance service providers, as well as international drug manufacturers, medical equipment manufacturers, and other parties, *** with the initiation of the establishment of the "digital medical innovation alliance ". The first batch of members include Tencent, microinsurance, penguin almond, medical association, clove doctor, good doctor, micro-medicine, Zhiye software, Kingdee medical, Donghua medical for, Siemens and many other enterprises.
2019 Tencent Global Digital Ecological Conference on Intelligent Healthcare special Tencent Vice President Ding Ke from the three directions of serving patients, serving doctors and hospitals, and helping the government, summed up Tencent's latest report card in the field of medical and health care:
Service to patients, Tencent Medical Dictionary has covered thousands of common diseases, and the field of oncology covers AI guidance has been accessed by nearly 300 hospitals, with a cumulative total of 4.7 million times of accurate guidance.
Serving doctors and hospitals, AI imaging has assisted doctors in reading 270 million films, serving nearly 1.6 million patients, and prompting high-risk 210,000 times; AI auxiliary diagnostic cumulative analysis of outpatient medical records of more than 8 million, prompting high-risk 160,000 times. At the same time, WeChat has connected more than 38,000 medical institutions across the country, and about 60% of hospitals provide all kinds of smart medical services through WeChat.
Assisting the government, Tencent's e-vouchers for health insurance cards have served more than 400 hospitals and 6,000 pharmacies nationwide, helping to improve the efficiency of health insurance settlements. The e-health card has also been introduced in nine provinces and cities across the country, making it easier for patients to access healthcare services with a single card, and helping to eliminate healthcare information silos.