Medical and health industry is a worthy sunrise industry. Nowadays, the Internet has infiltrated into all areas of people’s life, and naturally the medical field, which attracts much attention, will be involved in the frenzy of cross-border integration and develop towards the direction of “Internet plus”.

Langmar Information is part of this frenzy. Based on the development of intelligent detection technology, the rapid rise of the Internet and the uneven distribution of traditional medical resources, Langmar Information decided to transition to the “Internet + Medical” field at the end of 2013. Langma Information acquired 39 Health network with traffic, and then connected with offline physical hospitals — “39 Internet Hospital” and “Guizhou (Guiyang) Internet Hospital”, and then developed into the fields of medicine distribution and smart wearable devices.

Langma Information adheres to the Internet, big data and other technologies as the connector and amplifier of medical treatment, forming a service closed loop in the field of Internet medical treatment, and constructing the Internet medical ecosystem of Langma Information.

After 20 years of development, Langmar Information was ranked 39th in the “top 100 Internet Enterprises in China 2018” released in Xiamen on July 27, 2018, becoming the only enterprise in China to be included in the “Internet + Medical” list for three consecutive years, which is undoubtedly the biggest affirmation of its efforts.

The “three cores” of Langma Information Internet Medical ecosystem

Medical and health care is the eternal theme of human life and the foundation of national and social development. Nowadays, “Internet + medical” applications are flourishing in China. What are the special features of the development of The Internet medical ecosystem of Langma Information?

First, Internet hospitals are combined with offline physical hospitals. Based on the Internet, The Internet medical service launched by Langma Information is based on the combination of online and offline services of physical hospitals, and it really cuts into the medical treatment link. This combination of online and offline mode alleviates the difficulty of seeing a doctor and brings convenience to patients.

In fact, most of the Internet medical websites only have online services, and there is no offline medical institutions. Langma Information believes that Internet medical services not only need access on the wire, but also need offline resources to provide users with more perfect services, which is undoubtedly an important foothold of Langma Information.

Among the two Internet hospital platforms constructed by Langmar Information, 39 Internet Hospital focuses on hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, while Guizhou (Guiyang) Internet Hospital focuses on chronic disease management. These two hospital platforms can meet most consultation patients, so patients do not need to queue up to see a doctor in traditional hospitals, saving consultation time.

39 Internet hospital is the domestic first proposed “medical medical consultation” model of platform, the remote interrogation, on the basis of the introduced a remote operation, remote clinics, long-distance video, precise normalized remote medical consultation, remote teaching, field support for poverty alleviation and other consultation form, it can solve the situation of the uneven distribution of medical resources, make the high quality medical resources docking basic-level hospitals, Help patients to receive treatment in a short time.

It is understood that 60% of the video patients are hypertensive patients and 10% are diabetic patients. Thanks to the convenience of remote consultation, the website has attracted many local elderly users over the age of 60 in Guizhou.

Pang Chenglin, executive director of 39 Internet Hospital, once said that the expert resources of 39 Internet Hospital are shared with Guiyang No.6 Hospital, and guiyang No.6 Hospital will focus on tumor, cardiovascular, orthopedics and other disciplines to form a synergistic effect of resources. At the same time, guiyang Sixth Hospital specially established online Guizhou (Guiyang) Internet Hospital, its main business is chronic disease management, can serve thousands of people every day. Due to the wide range of medical disciplines served and the high quality of medical funding, this will retain 85% of the consultation patients, from which both parties can obtain the required flow.

Second, develop “Laya” medical-grade intelligent wearable testing equipment. In fact, Langma information in the medical wearable device business has been premeditated. In 2015, Langmar Information told The National Business Daily that it planned to provide portable and wearable devices such as blood glucose meters, electronic blood pressure meters, body fat scales and bracelets at Internet hospital endpoints. In addition, physiological data of users are collected through the device to construct health portraits of users, and then health management services are provided to users by Internet hospitals based on the data.

In the industry at that time, Langmar Information for the development of wearable medical testing equipment can be said to be the leader. While many people have yet to react to the wearable market, Langmar Information has decided to make its business model work by providing big data services through wearable devices. Langma information on the market keen sense, so that it in this field one step ahead of others, in advance.

Third, the establishment of pharmaceutical e-commerce. Wang Wei, chairman of Langma Information, has said that drugs are the ultimate business model of Langma Information. If patients can order drugs immediately after seeing a doctor on the Internet, it will save patients’ time to buy drugs in pharmacies, and also attract a lot of users based on convenience. Platforms such as Haodai.com have only online services and cannot buy drugs, so Langmar Information’s move makes its development more advanced.

At present, the elderly are treated free of charge in Guiyang Internet Hospital, but electronic prescriptions can only be given to patients after being reported to doctors in offline hospitals, mainly to accumulate data on patients with chronic diseases and eventually drive its drug service business. Based on the combination of Internet user big data and pharmaceutical e-commerce, the pharmaceutical e-commerce field in Langmar information ecosystem has achieved rapid development.

In short, Langmar Information provides patients with scientific diagnosis by combining the traffic brought by Internet hospitals with the diagnosis of physical hospitals. In Internet hospitals, patients’ health index is collected by wearable devices as one of the diagnostic reference indexes for doctors. At the same time, Langmar information has developed its pharmaceutical business to provide a channel for patients to buy medicines after they see a doctor.

Undeniably, it is the interlocking of online and offline hospitals, wearable devices, and drug delivery services that enable Langmar Information to form a closed-loop and highly efficient Internet medical ecosystem, enabling it to take an advantageous position in the industry model in terms of pressure resistance and liquidity. However, in the current red Sea, the development of Langma Information in the Internet medical ecosystem is not plain sailing, there are still many challenges.

Behind the development of Langmar information ecosphere lies a “killer”

At present, there are still many segments in the whole Internet medical industry that are still in the early stage of exploration, so there are still many problems in the development process of Langmar Information Internet medical ecosystem.

First, grass-roots patients do not have a high degree of trust in the expert. This is because patients do not know the consultant, and it is related to their own health, naturally do not trust the expert’s diagnosis. Secondly, due to the limited level of doctors in grassroots hospitals, there are many problems that they cannot solve. For example, many doctors cannot judge whether patients are complicated or not, which will lead to the automatic loss of patients. Third, the knowledge system of website big data processing talents is different from that of medical talents. How to combine their advantages to maximize their value is worth thinking about by Langmar Information.

Not only will there be problems in the construction of Internet hospitals, but also in the field of medicine circulation and smart wearable devices, Langmar Information will also face challenges.

At present, there is no clear standard for medical-grade wearable devices, and their performance and safety are not perfect, nor are they perfect in compatibility, for example, in the connection and compatibility with medical information system, which makes the accuracy of information provided hidden dangers. At the same time, the data monitored by medical wearable devices belong to people’s privacy, and there are no relevant regulations in the industry to ensure user data security.

The medical circulation business of Langma Information is based on the data of Internet hospitals, which requires that the user data of Internet hospitals be large enough. At present, Langmar Information has to face the pressure of the emergence of a large number of pharmaceutical e-commerce, and there is no unified standard of quality and price, and the safety of drugs seems not to be guaranteed.

Of course, the development of Langmar Information in the field of Internet medical care not only has to face its own problems, but also will face other challenges in the industry.

On the one hand, although Internet medical services provide patients with convenient, timely and economical medical consultation and diagnosis and treatment services, Internet medical services are mixed with different service levels, which are prone to lead to adverse consequences. As a service directly related to people’s health, Internet medical treatment needs more laws and regulations.

However, in China, there are no relevant regulations and laws, and there is no clear standard for doctors to consult patients online, which makes some unqualified doctors can also “serve” patients, so the health of patients may not be guaranteed.

On the other hand, the Internet hospital of Langmar Information needs a large amount of data to support its development and expansion. If we only rely on our own data, the amount and quality of data for different diseases may be uneven, and some diseases lack data. In this way, the problem of isolated health big data cannot be completely solved, which requires medical information sharing.

However, the current information sharing and information exchange in the hospital is not high, so there will be unsolvable diseases, this difficulty is obvious. In addition, medical information and data involve the personal information and property security of patients. Langmar information has not yet established a sound security maintenance system, and the degree of information security maintenance needs to be improved. Another point is that all kinds of medical information and scientific research data involve hospitals’ own advantages and interests, so it is difficult to persuade hospitals to open their data. If these problems are not addressed, information sharing will be nonsense.

To sum up, There are still many problems to be solved for Langmar Information, and there is still a long way to go. It is impossible to solve all problems at once, so Langmar Information can only slowly improve its Internet medical ecosystem. What is its next move?

Is AI Intelligent Diagnostic Lab the medicine for Langmar information?

Langmar Information is facing many challenges, such as the construction of information security system, information sharing and other problems are difficult to solve in a short time, need a long time to explore.

In this era of constant iteration of science and technology, In order to improve its Internet ecosystem, Langmar Information independently developed the AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory, which recently entered the experimental stage.

The AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory is based on big data from users. According to People’s Daily Online, the AI intelligent diagnosis system makes intelligent diagnosis by independently learning pathological images diagnosed by experts, and the accuracy rate of diagnosis has reached more than 80%. The AI intelligent diagnostic laboratory is collecting more professional pathological images to improve the “learning performance” of the AI system, and is expected to raise the diagnostic accuracy rate to 95 percent in the near future.

If it can be successfully put into use, Langmar information will be able to solve the problem of patients’ distrust of experts. At the same time, the system can assist imaging doctors to judge the condition, effectively relieve the diagnosis and treatment pressure of imaging doctors in primary medical institutions, and thus alleviate the uneven distribution of medical resources.

Moreover, the Internet medical platform of Langmar Information has accumulated massive data, which has laid a foundation for the operation of AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory. According to Guiyang Daily, the Internet medical platform developed by Langma Information has gathered data flow and business situation of 39 Health, Guizhou (Guiyang) Internet Hospital and 39 Internet Hospital. Up to now, it has collected nearly 200,000 remote consultation cases of difficult and severe diseases, and nearly 3 million diagnosis cases of chronic and common diseases.

These data can make the AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory diagnosis accuracy has the basis, and as far as possible to solve all the difficult and miscellaneous diseases.

However, langmar Information with AI intelligent diagnostic laboratory can rest easy? Apparently not. At present, many Internet giants are also applying ARTIFICIAL intelligence technology to the medical field. For example, Alibaba launched ET Medical Brain and Tencent launched the first OPEN platform for AI-assisted medical diagnosis and treatment. Then, who can guarantee that the growth rate of THE AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory of Langma Information is faster than those of Alibaba and Tencent? After all, Langmar may not be as technologically savvy as Internet giants like Alibaba and Tencent. If Langmar information falls behind in technology, it may be less effective.

How does Langmar Information continue to move forward under pressure? The first step now is to see whether Langmar Information can make good use of the AI intelligent diagnostic laboratory.

In a word, the improvement of Langmar information Internet medical ecosystem is not only the research and development of AI intelligent diagnosis laboratory, but also needs to develop more innovative products to solve the current difficulties. In the future, it depends on the development of Langma information whether we will be overwhelmed by difficulties or get rid of difficulties and march forward.

Article/Liu Kuang public account, ID: Liukuang110