The pneumonia epidemic of new coronavirus infections has brought further weight to Internet medical treatment.

Since the spread of pneumonia infected by the new coronavirus, it has caused a lot of impact on consumer industries such as restaurants, hotels, and tourism, but the crisis is also giving birth to a turnaround.

Just like “SARS” cultivates people ’s online shopping habits, it has made Ali today. This epidemic made Ping An Good Doctor ’s Internet medical app ushered in opportunities after cultivating the market for many years. The scale of users and the average daily usage time It has also reached a record high. At the same time, free medical consultation and online drug purchase services provided by Internet Medical in the epidemic situation have greatly eased the pressure of insufficient medical resources in physical medical institutions.

On February 11th, Ping An Good Doctor held a special performance conference during the epidemic. The originally planned offline performance report was changed to online, and four executives attended with masks.

According to the financial report, in 2019, Ping An Good Doctor realized a total income of 5.065 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52%; the net loss continued to narrow, a year-on-year decrease of 18%. Among them, the core business of online medical care continued to grow at a rapid rate, contributing 858 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 109%; from 2015 to 2019, the compound annual growth rate of Ping An Good Doctor reached 106%.

The battle for defense begins online

On January 23, a Ping An Good Doctor APP user in Shandong opened a consultation box, and his chest was tight and fatigued. He felt that he seemed to meet the symptoms of new coronary pneumonia. The user waiting at the train station was worried. He was “recruited” and he had just returned from Wuhan in early January. In anxiety, he opted for a free online consultation and sent his symptoms online to a doctor.

“Chest tightness, fatigue, and history of travel in Wuhan.” After a detailed online consultation, the doctor identified the case as a suspected case of new coronary pneumonia. I learned that the user had boarded a train to a different place, and the Ping An Doctor’s platform telephone connected the train conductor to provide preventive isolation guidance, and contacted local disease control, arranged for the patient to get off the nearest, and sent the ambulance to the local hot clinic The medical institution immediately adopted isolation screening measures. After screening, the patient was ruled out of the suspicion.

For one month, such online consultations have been the norm for every Internet medical platform. Ping An Good Doctor’s data shows that during the epidemic, 40% of online questioning users were concerned about how to prevent coronavirus infection; 25% of people consulted, if symptoms such as fever, dry cough, and fatigue appear, it means that they have been infected with new coronavirus ; 10% asked how the new coronavirus was transmitted.

There is no doubt that the pneumonia epidemic of the new coronavirus infection has brought further weight to Internet medical treatment. In areas with severe epidemics, Internet healthcare can rapidly increase the supply of medical resources, improve the efficiency of patient consultations, optimize medical procedures, and make up for