BEIJING, Nov. 18,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 16, Mr. Yao
Hu, co-founder of Waterdrop and General Manager of the
Pharmaceutical Innovation Business Unit, attended the
Jiemian(Jiemian.com) Big Health Forum 2022 sponsored by Shanghai
United Media Group, at which he shared the exploration and headway
Waterdrop has made in pharmaceutical innovation over the last two
years.
Hu said, Waterdrop has made "bringing insurance and healthcare
service to billions through technology" its mission since it
was established in 2016. Over the last six years, it has worked to
make medical treatment affordable to patients and served over 110
million customers through a wide range of health insurance
products. It also launched Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding, which
helped 2.58 million patients with severe critical illness raise
RMB53.3 billion of funds and eased
the financial pressure on those in difficulties.
While serving patients, Waterdrop has developed a chain of
healthcare-related services and launched the pharmaceutical
innovation service to offer platforms for the pharmaceutical
industry.
Currently, Waterdrop's pharmaceutical innovation service centers
on three platforms, i.e. Waterdrop Patient Platform, Digital
Marketing Platform, and E-find (E-find Recruitment and E-find
CRO).
Hu gave a detailed introduction to E-find, which features a
professional team, fast patient enrollment into clinical trial
groups, a competitive platform, and digital operation. Relying on
the strengths, E-find Patient Recruitment has grown into a leading
third-party patient recruitment platform at home in just two years,
with a highly competitive edge in the tumor field. As an Internet
tech enterprise, Waterdrop boasts strong capabilities in
digitalizing patient screening for research centers, subject
compensation, the match between patients and projects, and
follow-up visits to subjects.
Waterdrop Patient Platform commits to building a full-lifecycle
service system for patients with critical illnesses. The digital
marketing platform provides pharmaceutical enterprises with
services like market potential evaluation and precise and
comprehensive market surveys, to help partners develop targeted
marketing strategies and complete digital marketing efficiently and
precisely.
Hu said, "Focusing on millions of patients with severe illness,
Waterdrop's pharmaceutical innovation service aims to speed up the
R&D of innovative drugs and promote digital marketing for
pharmaceutical enterprises. Over the past two years, we've carried
out remarkable strategic cooperations with countless pharmaceutical
enterprises and research institutes. Going forward, we expect to
engage with more partners to deliver more fruitful results."
About Waterdrop Inc.
Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) is a leading technology platform
dedicated to insurance and healthcare service with a positive
social impact. Founded in 2016, with the comprehensive coverage of
Waterdrop Insurance Marketplace and Waterdrop Medical Crowdfunding,
Waterdrop aims to bring insurance and healthcare service to
billions through technology. For more information, please visit
www.waterdrop-inc.com.
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