Internet medical treatment is a new application of the Internet in the medical industry, including health education, medical information inquiry, electronic health records, disease risk assessment, online disease consultation, electronic prescription, remote consultation, remote treatment and rehabilitation and other forms of health medical services.
Internet medical care represents the new development direction of the medical industry, which is conducive to solving the contradiction between the imbalance of medical resources and the growing demand for health care in China. It is a medical development model actively guided and supported by the Ministry of Health.
During the epidemic prevention in 2020, many domestic hospitals and Internet health platforms launched online medical services.
The significance of Internet medical treatment:
Internet medical care represents the new development direction of the medical industry, which is conducive to solving the contradiction between the imbalance of medical resources and the growing demand for health care in China. It is a medical development model actively guided and supported by the Ministry of Health.
Regarding the profit model of internet medical entrepreneurship, one of the ways is through the payer insurance company. This includes cooperation as a value-added service of health insurance companies, helping insurance companies to reduce long-term premium expenses, or being able to enter their insurance reimbursement list and become the terminal entrance for collecting user data. However, many people think that the commercial health insurance market in China is weak and limited, so there are obstacles in this way.
From the policy point of view, the government has made it clear that it should enrich commercial health insurance products, support the development of commercial health insurance linked to basic medical insurance, and encourage commercial insurance institutions to provide medical security services in the form of government purchase. In the long run, commercial insurance will have more room for development. Independent development, or cooperation with internet medical startups, insurance companies are already in action.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Internet medical treatment