H3C Files Prospectus for IPO, Highlighting 35 Years of Digital Expertise and Tailored ICT Solutions for Healthcare

2018 marked the tenth year of China’s new healthcare reform. The healthcare industry is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting from a “disease-centered” model to a “people’s health-centered” approach, and healthcare informatization should adapt to and accelerate this transition.

H3C Group (hereinafter referred to as “H3C”), with 35 years of industry experience, is a provider of digital solutions dedicated to helping clients achieve business innovation and digital transformation. VCBeat (WeChat ID: vcbeat) has learned that H3C serves a vast customer base in the healthcare sector, with its products covering more than 900,000 medical institutions across China.

HBC Smart Healthcare possesses five core capabilities: top-level design, planning and consulting, product R&D, solution innovation, and ecosystem building. It also provides cutting-edge technologies for smart healthcare, including on-demand cloud computing resources, integrated and shared big data platforms, ubiquitous connectivity networks, and end-to-end information security protection from cloud to endpoint. HBC boasts comprehensive technical capabilities spanning computing, storage, networking, and security, along with full lifecycle service capabilities.

The greatest gap between domestic hospitals and top-tier international hospitals lies not in medical technology, but in hospital operations management. The level of operational management directly impacts patients’ final treatment outcomes, and digital technologies—such as mobile nursing care systems—can rapidly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital operations management.

Yu Zhihong, Vice President of H3C’s China Region and Director of the Healthcare Systems Division, believes that while various industries are currently in the phase of digital transformation, the healthcare sector is still at an early stage, primarily encompassing the following aspects:

First, mobility. Future healthcare services will undoubtedly involve patients, medical staff, and administrators operating in a mobile manner, leveraging mobile internet to facilitate interactions.

Second, telemedicine. The most pressing issue in the healthcare industry today is the uneven and overly concentrated distribution of medical resources, which makes it difficult for patients to access care and results in a poor patient experience. Telemedicine can help alleviate these problems to some extent and represents the future model of healthcare delivery. Large tertiary hospitals should refocus on scientific research, becoming leaders in their areas of expertise to drive breakthroughs in solving complex medical challenges. Meanwhile, leveraging telemedicine to extend medical services to primary care settings can facilitate the transition from seeking treatment for illnesses to comprehensive health management.

Third, data-centricity. The core of future healthcare value creation remains data; through data exchange, analysis, and governance, big data can yield true data value.

Fourth, digital technology and biotechnology. In the current medical field, these two technologies mutually promote the development of smart healthcare. These technologies have brought about transformations in several aspects: (1) improved patient experience; (2) expanded career opportunities for healthcare professionals. Currently, renowned specialists are largely concentrated in top-tier tertiary hospitals, limiting their career choices. Meanwhile, healthcare professionals can leverage internet-based tools to enhance their academic proficiency and clinical capabilities; (3) enhanced management efficiency and research capabilities for healthcare administrative institutions; (4) from a governmental perspective, by focusing on public health, well-being, and, most importantly, cost containment in health insurance, these technologies help improve the government’s administrative effectiveness.

To address these challenges, HBC leverages continuously innovative, scenario-based solutions to meet the needs for regional interconnectivity and resource sharing in China’s development of digital hospitals, smart hospitals, and the “Healthy China” initiative.

The complexity of the transformation process varies across different types of hospitals. In response to the diverse needs of medical institutions, HBC has established its own comprehensive capability system:

First, the capability for top-level design and planning consultation. HBC possesses the ability to plan and design IT infrastructure for diverse users. Starting from the top level, it conducts comprehensive, top-down planning and design for individual hospitals, including the deployment of hardware and software. In addition, HBC provides business consultation and remediation services tailored to the existing conditions of large hospitals with complex business systems.

Second, IT infrastructure development capabilities. This includes two aspects:

(1) HBC has the manufacturing capability for individual products, with a wide range of hardware products and software products such as cloud solutions;

(2) Capability to combine and integrate solutions: HBC provides tailored solutions for hospitals of varying sizes.

Third, ecological collaboration builds seamless onboarding capabilities.

Taking Nanjing Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital as an example, HBC fully supports the hospital’s information technology platform. By addressing the needs of patients, medical staff, and administrators, HBC has created a one-stop, comprehensive service solution through integrated wired and wireless networks, active-active storage backup, and intelligent unified operations and maintenance.

Integrated Wired and Wireless Solution: HBC leverages cloud-network integration to enable non-blocking data forwarding and seamless interconnectivity within hospital intranets, helping hospitals eliminate network blind spots.

Integrated Active-Active Storage Backup:HBC has built a highly secure backup environment for hospitals, ensuring that hospital business systems operate without lag. Additionally, the HBC system enables efficient data management, facilitating easy retrieval and archiving.

Integrated Operations and Maintenance:HBC offers the U-Center Intelligent O&M Solution, featuring five key characteristics: full-scenario coverage, integration, user-centricity, continuous scalability, and customization. This solution provides comprehensive O&M services, including O&M management consulting, technical services, and a value-driven O&M platform.

Unlike Alibaba and Tencent, which are digital leaders, HBC’s strength lies in the IaaS layer, whereas the former two focus more on the PaaS layer. In the post-digital era, with the growing number of ICT vendors, HBC believes its core advantages reside in:

First, regarding cloud services. HBC offers comprehensive cloud solutions. On one hand, it leverages Unisplendour’s public cloud services; on the other hand, it provides HBC’s own private cloud products and solutions.

Second, regarding the Internet of Things (IoT). Currently, HBC’s IoT wireless network has been deployed, with IoT interfaces reserved. There are 270,000 wireless products from HBC currently in operation, among which 40,000 wireless IoT terminals are capable of supporting IoT connectivity. Moving forward, HBC will further enhance the diversity of its IoT product portfolio.

Third, regarding data. HBC’s scenario-based data solution features active-active data centers. In terms of medical data security, HBC offers corresponding scenario-based solutions for data protection. Furthermore, a wide range of scenario-based solutions are available.

HBC stated that future digital transformation cannot be achieved by a single vendor alone; it requires ecosystem integration. Innovation demands breakthroughs in user experience, vendor capabilities, and applications, necessitating genuine strategic partnerships with numerous collaborators at both the product development and innovation levels.