New | Need a doctor? New Beijing scheme may let you book hospital check-up on WeChat
Appointment system with the help of popular messaging app proposed to boost efficiency and stop ticket scalping
Beijing hospitals are testing a new system that allows to patients make appointments via WeChat, the Beijing Times reported.
Twenty-one hospitals will set up accounts on the mobile messaging app and let users make appointments and check hospital information and test results on their phones, according to the Beijing Municipal Health Department.
Nine hospitals, including Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Beijing Cancer Hospital, have already set up accounts.
“We still need one final approval, but we’re launching it as soon as it is approved. The system will be much faster, and make it much easier for the patients,” an administrative woman from the Beijing Cancer Hospital said.
Beijing hospitals are notoriously crowded, with some patients lining up for appointments a day before.
According to the Beijing Times, some hospitals will create WeChat accounts which let subscribers get hospital information, while other hospitals will feature an appointment service through the messaging app.