Internet consultations are encouraged again

The National Bureau of Statistics released its monthly report on the consumer spending index on September 9th, with consumer prices rising 2.4% year-on-year in August 2020. Among them, health care prices rose 1.5 per cent year-on-year and 0.1 per cent month-on-month. Health care prices rose 2.0 percent in the January-August period from a year earlier.The executive meeting of the State Council held on the same day also pointed out that consumption is an important engine of economic development. This year' consumption has been hit hard by the epidemic, making it a weak link in economic recovery. The new business model based on network digital technology supports the rapid development of new consumption counter-trend and great potential. We should open up the consumption block that restricts economic growth, encourage market participants to speed up innovation, release domestic demand more, and enhance the momentum of economic recovery growth. To promote the new type of consumption expansion and quality. Innovative contactless consumption patterns. Promote online open courses, Internet consultation and other services.

online service to encourage theIn 2018, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting the Development of "Internet plus Medical Health", the relevant departments have issued a number of supporting policies related to Internet diagnosis and treatment, Internet hospitals, telemedican services, "Internet plus medical and health care" and so on. As of 2019, 11 provinces have built "Internet plus Medical Health" demonstration provinces, more than 530 Internet hospitals have been set up nationwide, more than 5,500 hospitals above the second level provide online services, and more than 9,100 hospitals have carried out telemedicaning.And this year's new crown epidemic is accelerating the "Internet plus medical health" related policies. As Mao Qun'an, director of the planning department of the National Health And Wellness Commission, said, "Internet plus medical health" has the convenience of breaking through time and space. As far away from "offline contact" to avoid cross-infection of patients, during the outbreak, relying on "Internet plus medical health" to provide the masses with epidemic prevention science, online counseling, psychological guidance, remote consultation, chronic disease follow-up, drug distribution and a series of services, to undertake and divert the medical and health needs of the masses, reducing the risk of offline population cluster infection.In the eyes of analysts, the active adjustment of medical institutions during the outbreak and the change of people's medical habits have led to a breakthrough in the Internet medical and health industry. According to the 2020 China Internet and Medical Industry Research Report released by the Aerry Research Institute, the monthly effective use time of medical and health APP and web pages has increased significantly from the outbreak in November 2019 to April 2020, with the increase in medical and health APP increasing rapidly compared with the same period last year. According to Avery's estimates, in February, the peak of the epidemic, the daily growth rate of medical and health APP (including online medical, pharmaceutical e-commerce, chronic disease management, sports health, etc.) increased by an average of 14.08 percent year-on-year in February 2019. According to the analysis, the epidemic has allowed more users to contact and adapt to online medical consumption habits, and the awareness of internet-plus medical use is expected to continue after the outbreak.The bigger positives come from health-care support, which has been steadily advancing everywhere since the National Health Service first proposed including Internet services in health care in 2019. During the epidemic, the National Health Insurance Administration and the National Health And Wellness Commission jointly issued "guidance on promoting the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to carry out "Internet plus" medical insurance services", but also accelerated the good cash. Hunan Provincial Medical Security Bureau recently issued "on the improvement of the "Internet plus" medical service prices and health insurance payment policy implementation of the opinion" on the clear, for the new content of the "Internet plus" and the implementation of the government to adjust the price of basic medical services, after the trial period announced the official price, the provincial health insurance bureau comprehensive consideration of clinical value, price level, health insurance payment capacity and other factors to determine whether to include the scope of medical insurance payment. However, Hunan Province also stressed that it is necessary to adhere to the online and offline service prices and economic improvement to match, so that online services can be more conducive to saving the overall cost of patients than traditional medical treatment.

pharmaceutical e-commerce to accelerate theIn fact, on July 13 this year, the Ministry jointly issued "on supporting the healthy development of the new industry model to activate the consumer market to promote the expansion of employment" has been put forward, focusing on supporting the new model of online services, actively promote the development of Internet medical care, encourage online drug purchase model.Under the impetus of national policy and patient demand, China's Internet medical market ushered in the "blowout" development, the market capacity of online pharmacies also reached a new high. In 2019, China's online pharmacy sales exceeded the 100 billion mark, reaching 125.1 billion yuan, up 38.2% year-on-year, according to Mienet data. Although the growth rate of the online pharmacy drug sales market has slowed compared with the high growth in previous years, it is still much higher than that of traditional brick-and-mortar pharmacies, and its absolute growth cannot be ignored.Industry experts speculate that the impact of the outbreak, pharmaceutical e-commerce market is accelerating maturity, 2020 growth rate or not less than 60%. It was revealed that during the outbreak, a large number of physical pharmacy users moved to online drug purchase channels, to the pharmaceutical e-commerce business to bring a new miracle of development. According to incomplete statistics, more than 66% of pharmacies began to consider and prepare to open O2O services, more than 30% of pharmacies are gradually opening. (Medical Economics)