On December 29, 2018, the first tele-consultation was conducted through the open-ended telemedicine platform of The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University for a 56-year-old patient from People's Hospital of Ledong County in Hainan.

The platform is a new information system built by FAH-SYSU since 2017. The system has been widely used in real-time clinical consultation, tele-diagnosis for medical imaging, pathology and electrocardiogram, and distance learning.