After Five Years of Production and One Year of Labor, VB Insights' First Book Series 'Towards Future Healthcare' Is Finally Launched

A few days ago, we came across a farewell letter from Xu Jiazi, CEO of Qingpingguo Health. From 2013 to 2019, Qingpingguo Health weathered many challenges on its journey of innovation in internet healthcare, and VCBeat has reported multiple times on the company’s progress. Now, Qingpingguo Health, which had raised funding up to Series B+, has announced that it will cease operations.

Over the past five years, VCBeat has produced 23 million words of original content in the field of healthcare innovation, including more than 10,000 articles and over 100 original reports. It has covered more than 4,000 companies across 81 sub-sectors of healthcare innovation, thereby establishing a preliminary global map of healthcare innovation trends. VCBeat has become a primary information source for over 200,000 healthcare innovation professionals worldwide.

Green Apple Health is one of the companies we have previously covered. We frequently engage with entrepreneurs and investors, many of whom are readers of VCBeat. It is under the influence of VCBeat that they have joined the wave of medical innovation. This not only fills us with gratitude but also instills in us a profound sense of responsibility and immense pressure.

The complexity and difficulty of medical innovation are only truly appreciated after we have delved deeply into this field. At the same time, the sense of accomplishment derived from effecting change in the healthcare sector is extraordinary. Compared to VCBeat in 2014, we are now able to re-examine the cause of medical innovation that we focus on, cherish, and promote with a more comprehensive perspective and a wealth of lessons learned.

This is the original intention behind our launch of a book series. We have named VCBeat’s inaugural series the “Towards Future Healthcare” Series, with the hope that it will address these issues:

1. Gain a holistic perspective on the developments, practical applications, and challenges in global healthcare innovation over the past five years, enabling readers to step back and reevaluate the current state and future trajectory of healthcare innovation.

2. Assess future trends in medical innovation through a longer time horizon to distinguish genuine trends from pseudo-demands.

3. Rethinking Entrepreneurship. Numerous practical cases have shown us that entrepreneurship is not just about seizing opportunities or securing capital; it is fundamentally about understanding oneself—what one truly desires and what one is capable of achieving.

This also represents VCBeat’s self-reflection. In the process of publishing this book series, we identified many shortcomings, immaturities, and lapses in rigor within our work. In particular, the numerous textual errors caught by the publisher’s proofreaders have made us even more aware that VCBeat still has substantial room for improvement.

Once the direction was set, we ultimately selected two partners. One was China Machine Press, a long-established publisher in China that has consistently produced classic titles in economics and management. Throughout the publication process, it also profoundly educated VCBeat’s new media editors, instilling in us a greater reverence for the power of professionalism and rigor.

Another partner is Kaola Kankan. Its founder, Zhang Xiaojun, was the first author in China to write about Chu Shijian and is a seasoned financial media professional. His team produced the series of books on Tencent’s methodologies behind *The Tencent Story*, establishing themselves as an outstanding domestic team that combines business writing with genuine passion. They assisted VCBeat in systematically reorganizing the core content and updating data across various sub-sectors of medical innovation, drawn from more than 23 million words of source material. This effort systematically presented the development trajectories and innovative case studies within each sub-sector. After a year-long endeavor, these three hard-won books were published, once again reminding us of the challenges inherent in traditional publishing.

These three books are:

"Big Data + Healthcare: Thinking and Decision-Making in the Scientific Era": Outlook on the prospects of medical big data applications and advanced global case studies;

"Blockchain + Healthcare: Applications and Future of New Technology Empowering Healthcare": A panoramic overview of the theoretical foundations and application directions of blockchain in healthcare;

"Insights on Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Investment": a book that provides practitioners with first-hand information on healthcare venture capital investment.

The “Towards Future Healthcare” book series looks like this.

Several Reasons for Recommendation:

1. VCBeat is China’s most focused research-oriented media outlet dedicated to frontier innovations in healthcare, possessing the world’s richest collection of first-hand materials on medical innovation.

2. The innovation in the foundational infrastructure of healthcare, driven by technological advancements, has gradually disrupted traditional medical practices and operational models. On this basis, the future of healthcare is filled with immense possibilities. We may witness the birth of an entirely new medical world, and this book series serves as the most authentic record of this technological evolution.

3. For readers already established in the industry, this book serves as a resource for retrospective analysis. For those aspiring to enter the field but not yet onboard, it offers an excellent popular science primer along with firsthand lessons learned.

High-Energy Warning:

1. The content of this book is primarily drawn from VCBeat’s reports and articles published over the past five years. Readers can access most of this content for free on the VCBeat website and its WeChat official account, where updates are continuously posted.

2. The editors and journalists at VCBeat still have limited understanding of the industry. Although we strive to do our best, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the results. Therefore, this book is intended more as a dialogue with our readers.

3. Our book will be released across all major online platforms, including JD.com, Tmall, and Dangdang. Prices may vary across these channels depending on ongoing promotions. We encourage interested readers to explore multiple options, compare prices, and maximize their savings.

Finally, here is an overview of the book’s main contents:

"Big Data + Healthcare: Thinking and Decision-Making in the Scientific Era"

As the behaviors of all things are progressively quantified by data, the forms and volume of medical big data will expand significantly, ushering the entire healthcare sector into a new era—a sustained and profound big data revolution.

Advances in hospital informatization, regional medical information sharing, and mobile sensing technologies will lead to an explosive growth in medical data. The VCBeat database has recorded a total of 561 big healthcare data companies. Over the past five years, VCBeat has published more than 460 articles covering corporate case studies and investment and financing news related to big healthcare data.

Building on this foundation, the book *Big Data + Healthcare: Thinking and Decision-Making in the Scientific Era* systematically reorganizes and examines this vast body of information. Comprising eight chapters, the book centers on the theory and practice of big data in healthcare. It explores the current state of industry development, application scenarios, corporate strategic layouts, and policy and regulatory frameworks, thereby providing a comprehensive analysis and overview of the sector’s growth.

As a foundational strategic resource and a critical factor of production for the nation, health and medical big data represents a vast treasure trove; its in-depth mining can contribute substantial value to economic development within the healthcare sector. Currently, big data is already delivering value in areas such as clinical decision support, disease treatment, hospital management, and pharmaceutical R&D, thereby driving industrial growth.

With the implementation of the national big data strategy, the field of medical big data is ushering in unprecedented opportunities for development.

“Blockchain + Healthcare: Applications and Future of New Capabilities Empowering Healthcare”

“Blockchain+” is a hot topic, but what impact will the integration of blockchain and healthcare have on the medical industry? In the field of healthcare, which types of information can be stored on the blockchain to ensure security? VCBeat is the only organization in the industry that has continuously focused on the convergence of blockchain and healthcare. It has extensively collected and reported on more than 60 innovative “Blockchain+ Healthcare” cases, providing detailed answers to the above questions.

“Blockchain + Healthcare: Applications and Future of New Technology Empowering Healthcare” This book consists of eight chapters. Starting with healthcare and blockchain, it deconstructs the evolution of blockchain and its applications in the healthcare industry, and explores how blockchain technology can address challenges faced in the medical field. It provides a detailed account, from underlying technologies to commercial applications, of how blockchain is being implemented in the healthcare sector.

This book provides a profound understanding of the essence of blockchain technology and clarifies how it is implemented in the healthcare sector through real-world corporate case studies. VCBeat has analyzed the methods and ecosystem models adopted by enterprises for blockchain applications in healthcare, summarizing eight primary ways in which blockchain integrates with medical services: healthcare data management, genomic data, health insurance, medical personnel identity verification, pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting, healthcare supply chain finance, clinical trials, and surgical records.

Meanwhile, this book also reviews 65 medical blockchain enterprises both domestically and internationally, analyzing their healthcare scenario designs and industry backgrounds to observe the current development pace of the medical blockchain sector.

"Medical Entrepreneurship and Investment Insights"

Capital is a key driver propelling the development of the healthcare industry. VCBeat reviewed investment data from 2014 to 2018 and summarized the transformations in the medical and health sector over those five years.

Investment and financing activities in the healthcare sector have always been a top concern for enterprises and investment institutions. VCBeat has established the largest enterprise database in the healthcare field, covering 33,000 healthcare companies and recording 16,000 investment and financing events.

Based on its data, VCBeat publishes quarterly reports on global healthcare investment and financing. By analyzing trends within the data, we map out past and future investment trajectories in the medical industry, exploring how to position strategically in advance. How can healthcare companies seize financing opportunities and ride the wave of capital to achieve sustained growth?

"Insights into Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Investment" is divided into eight chapters. It provides a comprehensive analysis of healthcare venture capital firms at different stages of industry development, and offers detailed elaboration on investment opportunities in the healthcare sector, as well as the domains and methodologies involved in venture capital.

The book compiles a vast array of real-world business cases, covering entrepreneurs, investors, successes and failures, as well as legal disputes, thereby addressing the key issues encountered in the venture capital investment process.

This book also introduces a new trend in the healthcare sector—international investment—and analyzes healthcare-focused venture capital firms that have failed, thereby helping the healthcare industry achieve a win-win outcome in terms of both social and economic benefits.

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