Internet Hospital

Internet hospital is the licensed institutional form for online medical services in No.206 检索、送药、看病：互联网医疗这些年 | 中国互联网故事22. The episode uses Wuzhen, Yinchuan, and later national policy to show how online consultation, electronic prescriptions, follow-up visits, remote care, and hospital-backed service scope became a regulated category.

The concept’s key tension is scope. Early local pilots could be broad, but national rules later required internet hospitals to rely on physical medical institutions and respect first-diagnosis, doctor identity, prescription, and AI-substitution boundaries.

Connections

• 微医 / 挂号网 and 银川互联网医院试点 — company and local-policy examples.
• Hospital Information System — infrastructure layer behind internet-hospital operations.
• Online Medical Consultation and Online Healthcare Regulatory Boundary — service and policy boundary.
• 数字健共体 — later city-level health-management extension.