New app will help you find a good dentist in top cities
Choosing a healthcare provider is one of the most important decisions in life. Yet, it is often one of the least informed. Most people can get little information about the quality or even the price of medical treatment.
The Beijing subsidiary of California-based MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc has created a WeChat application, Meideyi, designed to address the information problem for a part of the market - private dental clinics in four major cities.
About half of China's 120 billion yuan ($18 billion) dental-care market is provided by large State-owned hospitals, but lots of people, especially busy professionals with children, prefer the scheduling convenience and friendly service of a small private clinic. But, the 65,000 such clinics in China vary widely in price and quality. There's no evidence that the most expensive ones actually provide better treatment. So, how is a customer to choose?
