In recent years, with the intensification of population aging, a series of supportive policies such as "Opinions on Promoting the Development of "Internet + Medical Health" and "Measures for the Administration of Internet Diagnosis and Treatment", as well as favorable factors such as the improvement of people's medical and health awareness, many pharmaceutical companies and Internet medical platforms are helping the prevention and treatment of
chronic diseases by continuously developing chronic disease drugs and actively innovating service models.
On the evening of October 23, Ping An Healthcare Technology Co.
, Ltd.
announced the official acquisition of Ping An Smart Medical
, a business arm of Ping An Smart City.
According to the announcement, Ping An Health entered into a share transfer agreement with Scientia Technologies Limited (hereinafter referred to as Saiandi Technology) and Ping An International Smart City Technology Co.
, Ltd.
(hereinafter referred to as Ping An Smart City), and the transaction consideration was US$96.
8646 million
.
Upon completion of the transaction, Ping An Health will hold 100% equity interest
in Scientia Smart Health Technologies Limited and Ping An Yingxiang (Jiaxing) Software Co.
, Ltd.
(collectively, Ping An Smart Medical).
According to public information, Ping An Smart Healthcare is an important sector formerly affiliated to Ping An Smart City, which focuses on the core areas of the medical system, with the smart big data platform as the core, Ping An Smart Healthcare mainly provides public health emergency management, AskBob doctor station, regional chronic disease intelligent management, clinic supervision and services and other application services
for the government, medical institutions, medical staff and patients.
Regarding the acquisition, the relevant person in charge of Ping An Health said that it will comprehensively improve Ping An Health's online and offline medical service capabilities, and exert strategic synergies in three aspects: "chronic disease service supplementation", "doctor capacity improvement" and "primary medical network coverage"
.
It is expected to provide more professional, comprehensive, high-quality, one-stop medical and health services for individual users and corporate customers, and achieve more stable and sustainable high-quality development
.
Industry insiders believe that Internet chronic disease management can provide online follow-up, door-to-door drug delivery, indicator monitoring, medication guidance, adverse reaction intervention, medical insurance payment, health science popularization and other services through the Internet chronic disease management platform, effectively making up for the lack of professional guidance, inconvenience, poor compliance and other pain points of patients in traditional chronic disease management, so it is destined to usher in huge development prospects, so more and more enterprises in this field layout is also expected
.
According to statistics, the Internet chronic disease management market has grown from 32.
4 billion yuan in 2016 to 155.
5 billion yuan in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of 48.
0%.
This fully demonstrates the huge demand for chronic disease management in the market, and the industry believes that with the intensification of the aging problem in the future and the promotion of a series of favorable policies, the Internet chronic disease management industry will become a major development area with great potential in China's medical market, and usher in the layout
of more enterprises.
In fact, at present, not only the Internet, medical companies, but also many pharmaceutical companies are also laying out the Internet chronic disease management market
.
For example, on November 6, 2021, at the 4th China International Import Expo, Hanhui Pharmaceutical signed a strategic cooperation agreement
with Hui Medical World.
The two parties will integrate resources to jointly explore the digital full-course management mode in the field of chronic diseases such as digestion and hyperlipidemia, and create a high-quality closed-loop out-of-hospital
health management for patients with chronic diseases.
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