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Linkcare, a spin-off from Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, will collaborate together with Chinese company 360med.so to deploy a mobile based continued learning platform to support the Xina's Medical Doctor Association project of live long training. The learning platform, based on WeChat social network will be of mandatory use for continuous professional education of 1,370,000 rural doctors around all the country serving a total population of 780 million citizens.

The project has been set up to sustain the legislation ruled on march 2013 by the Minister of Health to improve China’s Rural Health care system. Once fully deployed, the continuous education program will become the world's largest one of its kind ever.

Linkcare was founded in 2010 and since then has specialized on Clinical Shared Knowledge and Integrated Care for Heath Care Professionals. The company will close soon its first financing round under the leadership of its president Jose Sanchez and its CEO Jim Roldan, an entrepreneur and business angel specialized in international high tech venture development.

The Chinese company 360med.so was created in 2010 too in Beijin and has quickly become China's leading company in digital health communication. Their website page has one million followers, most of them doctors, and their customers include most of the transnational pharmaceutical companies doing business in China.

More information at the press release.

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