Merck, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of multinational pharmaceutical company Merck, is engaged in R&D, manufacturing and commercial operation. As one of the pharmaceutical giants, the product level can not only perfectly connect Tmall Medicine, which has just been merged into Ali Health, but also cooperate with Taobao consumption data and Ali Health Medical+Medicine product line at the data and operation level.
The group also pointed out that "the two sides will work together to explore cooperation in a wide range of medical fields, including professional medical warehousing, cloud data storage for chronic disease management and cloud computing services such as health data analysis."
Among them, professional medical warehousing is inseparable from logistics distribution, and in view of the current rookie logistics layout, the drug e-commerce transaction and offline distribution system operate quickly and directly, and it is very likely to carry out business quickly. Coincidentally, Dr. Ping An also announced his intention to enter drug distribution not long ago. Some cities build their own logistics, cooperate with local pharmacies, and some regions choose to invest in/cooperate with drug O2O teams.
On the other hand, chronic disease management, cloud data storage and health data analysis rely on Ali's cloud computing platform. It is understood that Ali Group is using its own user consumption data and behavioral portraits to cooperate with the health management team to see if it can get more good health management plans or conclusive facts on the data, and then cooperate with insurance companies, product e-commerce and other projects. Patient data and drug sales data can also be an important part of it.