Online Medical Consultation

Online medical consultation is the light-diagnosis and question-answering category 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. 春雨医生 is the source’s main example: users had many low-acuity questions that could reduce anxiety without immediately going to a hospital.

The episode’s central caution is economic and clinical. Consultation is useful, but it is hard to standardize, hard to price, and often sits upstream from the higher-value parts of healthcare: tests, drugs, procedures, hospitalization, chronic management, and insurance payment.

Connections

• 春雨医生 and 张锐 — light-consultation company and founder.
• 好大夫在线 and 平安好医生 — adjacent consultation and doctor-access models with different commercialization routes.
• Online Healthcare Regulatory Boundary — first-diagnosis, doctor-identity, prescription, and AI limits.
• Internet Healthcare — broader industry branch.