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A new report by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company delves into Asia s rising consumer-centric digital health ecosystems and its emerging players. It ultimately advises healthcare players, both incumbents and new, to define their future roles in orchestrating or participating in those health ecosystems.
FINDINGS
Emerging consumer-centric digital health ecosystems in Asia deliver care by combining three critical components: a network of healthcare service providers across care settings; a smart system leveraging behavioural, social, and health data; and a technology backbone enabling data and insights to flow between care providers.
These ecosystems are not entirely digital as they both integrate digital and physical health services. They are not run by a single entity as these ecosystems typically consist of a central orchestrator anchored around a few self-built business models .
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Chinese healthcare services firm Zhongchao, through its subsidiary Shanghai Zhongxin Medical Technology, has established Zhongxin Ningxia, its new business that will set up an internet hospital for inpatient management in China.
WHY IT MATTERS
Zhongchao said in a press statement that the upcoming Zhongxin Internet Hospital will offer an all-in-one patient management service, including diagnosis, treatment solutions, treatment engagement management and living improvement.
Through sharing data with both in and outpatients, the company envisions the internet hospital to provide more efficient patient management service and attract business opportunities, such as health insurance, medicine sales and patient recruitment.
This announcement came in after a month since Zhongchao launched its patient management service for patients with tumours and rare diseases, which will also be offered in its forthcoming hospital. Based on a previous statement, the service is back
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By Hilary Gentile
Adobe
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