What is an internet hospital?

Internet hospitals provides online medical services like the consultation of common and chronic diseases, prescription and delivery of medicine. It is one key project to provide convenient citizen service. Compared with regular offline service, it is more convenient and can avoid close contact. With the pattern "online consultation + offline delivery", alternatively convenient support is offered to people.

What could internet hospitals do?

According to national COVID treatment instruction, internet hospitals could provide online consultation, give prescription and deliver medicines to patients. In case of certain circumstance when patients are no longer suitable for online consultation, online doctors will provide guideline and suggest offline treatments.

Apart from COVID, what else could the service provide?

In additional to the consultation of common and chronic diseases, health consultation, medical treatment instruction and psychological counseling are other examples of functionalities of online hospitals. Meanwhile, medical institutions will provide reservation service via internet platforms, which will reduce the waiting time and mitigate the contact among patients.

Available internet hospitals (28) are listed as below:

Author | Eddie

Revisor | May, Jersey

Source | Foshan Health Bureau, Health Bureau of Shunde District