Manulife-Sinochem partners with Haodf for better healthcare solutions
Manulife-Sinochem Life Insurance Co Ltd (MSL) has announced that it has reached a long-term strategic partnership with Haodf.com (Haodf), China’s leading online medical platform. The partnership will provide MSL’s customers with access to the highest quality medical resources in China and further enrich the “health ecosystem” that MSL is committed to offer. At the same time, Manulife Financial Corporation (“Manulife”), the shareholder of MSL, also completed its strategic investment in Haodf.com.
Haodf.com has 210,000 registered doctors, which make it the largest prestige medical professionals service on-line network in China — 87 percent doctors registered on the platform are experienced doctors with medium-grade or advanced professional titles and 73 percent are from first-class state hospitals. MSL’s customers and their family members will have the opportunity to enjoy high quality services from Haodf.com, including family doctors, tele-consultations, hospitalization appointments, medical expert services and comprehensive medical treatment. MSL will work with Haodf.com to develop tailor-made protection products to meet the diversified needs of Haodf’s more than 56 million users.
“In many parts of Asia, including China, health insurance markets are booming,” Manulife Asia President and CEO Anil Wadhwani said. “Our clients need high-quality medical services with more immediate response, which is also the reason why we are keen to invest in digital innovation, such as through our strategic investment in Haodf. We intend to leverage the power of technology to help our customers better manage their own health needs.”
“The partnership with Haodf marks an important milestone to differentiate our health strategy and offerings to our customers. We have successfully developed a holistic health management ecosystem, covering healthy lifestyle, healthcare services, online medicine prescription and delivery, as well as medical protection products for our customers,” said Kai Zhang, CEO of Manulife-Sinochem. “By leveraging digital technology, we have enabled our customers across the country to have the privilege of enjoying high-quality medical resources and extended healthcare services further to our protection products. In addition, the partnership will also incubate a series innovation on healthcare and protection products that add value to medical services and online medical treatment.”
“Technological innovation has created tremendous opportunities for smart healthcare and the development of the healthcare system. Big data, artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies are playing an increasingly important role in strengthening health treatment and the provision of insurance,” Hang Wang, CEO of Haodf.com, said. “By combining MSL’s extensive experience in promoting health for over two decades together with the advanced medical platform services provided by Haodf, our exciting new cooperation is expected to help drive the transformation of medical services from offline to online, alleviate the current geographical limitations and shortages of medical resources, and accelerate the digitalization and commercialization of health management services.”
MSL has long been an advocate for encouraging customers to acquire more health protection by embracing a healthy and active lifestyle. By combining professional resources and customer insights from both sides, MSL and Haodf will join forces to help transform the healthcare industry and the insurance industry, with ultimate goal of improving the delivery of quality healthcare services and accelerating the development of health management ecosystem.
