Alipay announced a Future Hospital plan, which aims to facilitate the workflow efficiency in the current healthcare system in China. Additionally, the plan also aims to take advantage of Alipay’s mobile payments, cloud computing and database to remold a more efficient healthcare system in China. Currently, phase one of the Future Hospital only supports self funded clients, Alipay claims they’re working actively to incorporate the medical care insurance system into the plan, thus to support both self funded and medical care insurance accounts. After phase one, there is an even bigger plan that allows Alipay to take its presence in the whole healthcare system to a different level. This is not the first time that Alibaba Group, the owner of Alipay, gestured that it will move into the medical care and pharmaceutical industry.