Exclusive Interview with Zang Hao, Founder of Mr. Zhi: Keeping Digitalization Always Online to Advance the Construction of Healthy China
The development of smart healthcare stems from the in-depth integration of information technology and the healthcare field. With the rapid advancement of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing, the traditional healthcare model is facing a major transformation. Issues such as population aging, the high incidence of chronic diseases, and the uneven distribution of medical resources have driven an increasing demand in the healthcare system for more efficient, accurate, and convenient medical services. Driven by policies and market demand, smart healthcare has gradually become an important trend in the global healthcare field, providing new solutions to address healthcare challenges and improve the quality and efficiency of medical services. Recently, Nanjing Innovation Investment Group invited Zang Hao, Founder of Nanjing Mr. Zhi Information Technology Co., Ltd., to conduct an industry discussion.
Zang Hao is the Founder of Nanjing Mr. Zhi Information Technology Co., Ltd., Standing Director of Jiangsu Informatization Association, Director of Xuzhou Artificial Intelligence Society, Member of China Association of Computer Automated Measurement and Control Technology, and a new-generation entrepreneur. He has over ten years of experience in R&D, architecture design, and management of software systems in the medical information field. Since his postgraduate studies, he has been engaged in theoretical research and application development of informatization in the medical context. He has participated in 5 vertical projects at the provincial, municipal, and departmental levels, and over 10 horizontal industrialization projects. He has published 5 papers on medical information and applied for multiple invention patents. During his employment and entrepreneurship, he has led R&D of over 10 large-scale medical software projects.
What is Mr. Zhi’s positioning and development strategy?
Founded in 2019, Nanjing Mr. Zhi Information Technology Co., Ltd. has adhered to the mission of "Keeping Digitalization Always Online" since its establishment. It has built three core business brands: "Zhiwei®", "Yizhixin®", and "Yiwei Zhiyou®", providing scenario-based solutions for hospitals in areas such as global digital asset operation and maintenance, medical insurance operation management, and scientific research development, and making every effort to advance the digital construction of the industry.
Currently, the company has provided products, services, and solutions to over 400 medical institutions. Its "digital operation and maintenance" products rank first in market share among tertiary hospitals in Jiangsu Province and top 3 nationwide. In professional fields, it has successively won the provincial first prize and national second prize in the 2023 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition, and the provincial first prize in the 2024 Smart Healthcare Innovation Competition.
What benefits has the "Zhiwei" product brought to the industry?
In modern hospital management, information systems have become an indispensable part. Every link—from registration, payment, diagnosis and treatment, examinations to pharmacy management—relies on the support of information systems. As a key component of smart hospital construction in China, the stability and security of information systems are directly related to the quality and efficiency of medical services.
Mr. Zhi Technology has actively explored the application of big data and AI technologies in hospital operation and maintenance, and built a new-generation hospital digital operation and maintenance platform—Zhiwei, which has realized a comprehensive innovation of the operation and maintenance system and provided strong support for the sustainable development of smart hospitals.
Currently, Zhiwei has achieved a number of industry technological innovations: ① Fusion perception technology based on multi-modal heterogeneous information to realize information asset mapping; ② Risk disposal model based on operation and maintenance big data to realize early detection of operation and maintenance risks; ③ Risk disposal model based on operation and maintenance big data to realize early detection of operation and maintenance risks. Up to now, it has applied for 8 invention patents and 1 industry group standard.
Taking a tertiary hospital as an example, through the construction of the Zhiwei operation and maintenance system, the hospital’s automatic identification capability of medical information assets has increased by approximately 13%, the time to detect operation and maintenance faults has been shortened by 30 minutes, the asset discovery rate is 23% higher than that of manual inspection, the risk identification capability is 56% higher than that of manual inspection, and the financial expenditure caused by medical information accidents has been effectively reduced.
What are the core priorities for the development of the smart healthcare industry?
After 5 years of development and accumulation, Mr. Zhi has been awarded titles such as National High-Tech Enterprise, Jiangsu Provincial Specialized, Refined, Characteristic, and Innovative SME, Jiangsu Provincial Software and Information Service Enterprise, and Jiangsu Provincial Private Technology Enterprise.
Mr. Zhi believes that all players in the industry should take R&D as the primary driving force, adhere to independent innovation, actively participate in the formulation of various standards, and apply for national invention patents and software copyrights in areas such as data collection and sharing, fault early warning, and smart decision-making.
In terms of independent and controllable information technology (Xinchuang), all of Mr. Zhi’s product lines are now fully compatible with mainstream domestic software and hardware on the market, realizing independent control of the basic architecture of Xinchuang localization, and truly adhering to independent innovation and deepening the technological moat.
What are your views and expectations for the future development of the industry?
Driven by policies, technological progress, and market demand, China’s medical informatization industry has shown a strong development momentum and broad market prospects. It is expected that by 2028, the market size of medical informatization will exceed RMB 140 billion.
Against the backdrop of the industry’s rapid development, we will also align with trends and policies, make steady progress to achieve sustainable product development, gain in-depth understanding of user pain points, provide strong informatization decision support for medical institutions, build long-term market competitiveness, enhance industry influence, and uphold our original aspiration to support the high-quality development of hospitals.
In 2022, Nanjing Innovation Investment Group completed a leading investment of several million yuan in Mr. Zhi’s Pre-A round through the Nanjing Industrial Development Fund, supporting Mr. Zhi Technology in brand building, innovative development, and the establishment of a marketing center in Nanjing.
The company focuses on the field of hospital operation and maintenance information systems, has accumulated a large amount of industry data in the East China region, and its products are in line with the policy development trend of the hospital cybersecurity construction industry, with promising market prospects. In the future, Mr. Zhi Technology will uphold its original aspiration, take "becoming a leading digital solution provider" as its vision, further deepen technological R&D, make unremitting efforts in innovation, and continue to empower the construction of Healthy China and the digital transformation of the medical industry.
Source: Cao Rui (First Investment Department)
Reviewer: Xue Yao
Publisher: You Yi
