Telemedical start-up DocFlight, founded by Harvard graduate Sally Wang, connects Chinese doctors via remote means to American patients in an attempt to alleviate a lack of medical coverage. In China, getting access to the best healthcare providers is difficult without connections and patients often only get a few minutes with doctors. China has been trying to reform its healthcare system, but the sheer scale of its population of 1.4 billion people makes that very challenging. Telemedicine is predicted to increase in value from $25.53bn globally in 2015 to $57.92bn in 2020.
Telemedical start-up DocFlight, founded by Harvard graduate Sally Wang, connects American doctors via remote means to Chinese patients in an attempt to alleviate a lack of medical coverage. In China, getting access to the best healthcare providers is difficult without connections and patients often only get a few minutes with doctors. China has been trying to reform its healthcare system, but the sheer scale of its population of 1.4 billion people makes that very challenging. Telemedicine is predicted to increase in value from $25.53bn globally in 2015 to $57.92bn in 2020.