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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
YI Group: Three Sectors to Create an Internet Medical Ecosystem
Authors : Jie Zhang, Xiaolin Ding, Yanjun Lu, Runbo Wang, Yizhen Wang
Published in: Innovation of Digital Economy
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Abstract
In 2010, the Chinese people were facing the dilemma of “difficult to see a doctor and expensive to buy medicine”. In order to solve this medical problem that bothered the Chinese people, Yu Gang and Liu Junling created the 1 medicine network sub channel in the online supermarket store 1 they founded. In 2015, Yu Gang and Liu Junling left store 1 to operate 1 medicine network independently and founded YI group, this has opened the exploration road of YI group (1 drug network). After years of development, YIgroup has formed “1 drug network”, “1 diagnosis” and “1 drug city” The business model of the troika driving hand in hand has also formed an internet medical ecosystem with mutually beneficial coexistence of pharmaceutical enterprises, pharmacies, hospitals, other drug distributors and customers. So, how does YI group expand its business step by step? How to use science and technology to realize the Internet Medical ecosystem?