Ruby Wang (@chinahealthpulse): "China has no shortage of digital health platforms. Legacy players with years of skin in the game already boast hundreds of millions of users each. So what makes Afu stand out? Why has a relative latecomer in digital health been able to scale so quickly, hit headlines and break …"

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China has no shortage of digital health platforms. Legacy players with years of skin in the game already boast hundreds of millions of users each.

So what makes Afu stand out? Why has a relative latecomer in digital health been able to scale so quickly, hit headlines and break records, despite the fierce competition that has always persisted?

You can also select between AI-assisted internet hospitals, if you are less preferential about which doctor you want to interact with, or less certain about which specialty you need for your symptoms (left image). You can also engage more generally with wellness and disease prevention functions within the app: the middle image is the “all citizen health helper”, and the right image is an “everyday health advice” encyclopaedia. There are seemingly endless tabs, columns and options to click through and interact with. But this is typical for a Chinese app

Ruby Wang

Feb 21

1:13 PM

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