Recently, VCBeat (WeChat Official Account: vcbeat) learned that B-Soft has disclosed the “Announcement on Signing a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement with Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd.” on the information disclosure website designated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
The announcement stated that, adhering to the principles of mutual benefit, complementary advantages, and joint development, B-Soft and Tencent have agreed to promote comprehensive, in-depth cooperation in the “Internet+” healthcare sector. They will jointly advance the integrated application of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, payment solutions, traffic entry points, and Tencent Smart Hospital within the medical and health industry. Following friendly negotiations, the two parties signed the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. and B-Soft Co., Ltd.
Content and Scope of Cooperation Between the Parties
1. Jointly develop comprehensive solutions for the construction and operation of Healthy Cities, and promote convenient, people-centric services such as facial recognition, electronic social security cards, WeChat City Portals, and WeChat Pay. Taking the Healthy Zhongshan project as a pilot, Create Software will integrate Tencent’s Smart Hospital solutions, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, electronic social security cards, WeChat City Portals, and WeChat Pay into the Healthy Zhongshan platform.
(1) An All-in-One Card Project Integrating Facial Recognition and WeChat Electronic Medical Cards. The All-in-One Card Project was a key component of Zhongshan City’s 2016 livelihood initiatives. This project ensures compatibility with social security cards, allowing residents to use the “Zhongshan Health Pass” card for medical visits in the same manner as a social security card. After registering on the “Healthy Zhongshan” app, scanning the electronic medical card provides the same functionality as presenting a physical card.
(2) Application of Tencent Miying on the Regional Health Information Platform. As an exploratory artificial intelligence product in the healthcare sector, Tencent Miying can be applied to areas such as assisting physicians in diagnosis and early cancer screening. This solution will integrate with the big data from the Zhongshan City Regional Health Information Platform to explore new operational cooperation models for regional imaging centers. By leveraging the respective strengths of both parties—relying on Tencent Cloud resources and the imaging big data from the Zhongshan City Regional Health Information Platform—the platform will provide residents with image access and consultation services, while offering remote diagnosis and treatment services to medical and health institutions. Subsequently, operations will gradually expand into areas such as internet hospitals, cashless hospitals, commercial insurance claims processing, and insurance brokerage.
2. Jointly develop value-added healthcare products based on Tencent Miying AI and WeChat Smart Hospital, and build a support platform for hospitals and primary care institutions to launch billable AI-driven services. Tencent Miying’s AI product portfolio includes applications such as AI-assisted imaging diagnosis, clinical decision support, and patient triage, which have gained widespread recognition in the industry. By integrating these capabilities with the company’s existing healthcare offerings, both parties will co-create industry-specific value-added solutions that incorporate Miying’s technologies.
(1) Both parties shall establish a joint R&D team to collaboratively develop innovative products. B-Soft will provide medical institutions at various levels as pilot sites for the application of AI-based products, smart hospital solutions, and other offerings. The joint R&D team formed by both parties will be stationed at these pilot institutions to conduct collaborative analysis and discussions with medical experts, thereby developing innovative products that align with actual clinical workflows.
(2) Both parties shall jointly develop and establish an AI service network. By connecting hospitals, public health institutions, primary care facilities, and other entities through this AI service network, we will achieve deep integration of intelligent services with production systems, thereby facilitating the rapid, stable, and cost-effective adoption of Miying AI services among all customers.
(3) Both parties will jointly develop comprehensive smart hospital solutions. By integrating the Company’s online and offline products for hospitals and primary healthcare institutions, they will achieve seamless system integration and interoperability, thereby enhancing the level of informatization and internet application in hospitals and primary healthcare settings.
3. Leverage the complementary strengths of both parties’ products to jointly explore an open-ended strategy for hospital informatization centered on the Tencent platform, elevate the strategic level of cooperation, and innovate models for in-depth collaboration. Both parties will jointly develop a new generation of hospital information systems based on the Tencent platform and powered by medical artificial intelligence. These systems will support an open app store model, integrate online and offline services, enable hybrid cloud deployment, and provide personalized, tailored interactive applications for physicians (“a unique experience for each of the thousands of doctors”), thereby creating intelligent industry software products that ensure a comfortable and efficient user experience for healthcare professionals.
Both parties will collaborate to explore the in-depth application of big data in healthcare and enhance AI-driven medical products, jointly advancing research into commercialized offerings such as big data solutions, smart terminals, health insurance fraud prevention systems, and holographic digital humans.
Collaborative Impact
According to VCBeat, B-Soft has identified innovative business areas such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence as key directions for future expansion, aiming to build an innovative smart healthcare service ecosystem. Leveraging its technological and market accumulation in these innovative sectors, the company has seen rapid growth in orders for its innovative businesses and has signed agreements and letters of intent for innovative business cooperation with more than 400 medical and health institutions and health administrative departments across China, including the Shanghai Minhang District Health and Family Planning Commission, Jiangyin People's Hospital, and Baiyin First People's Hospital.
Currently, B-Soft’s innovative business segments are experiencing substantial client demand, with significant market potential亟待 realization. The company needs to rapidly enhance its technological capabilities, product maturity, and consumer-facing (C-end) operational proficiency in areas such as medical cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. This will be achieved through strategic alliances among industry leaders, complementary technological integration, and innovative business models, thereby accelerating the transition into the revenue realization phase for its innovative businesses.
This collaboration builds on B-Soft’s innovative product offerings in smart cities, healthcare big data, and internet hospitals, and integrates Tencent’s medical product solutions. Leveraging both parties’ operational achievements in the broader health sector, the partnership jointly launches comprehensive solutions for smart cities, internet hospitals, and healthcare big data, thereby realizing a “construction + operation” business model. By harnessing Tencent’s strong internet-based social ecosystem and B-Soft’s expertise in healthcare big data, the partners will establish an open “Internet + Healthcare” platform to provide internet-enabled backend services for the medical industry.
It aims to build a closed-loop healthcare system that tightly connects hospitals, doctors, and patients, fostering win-win cooperation between the internet and the medical industry. By creating a leading domestic business model for healthy city ecosystems, it integrates traditional Health Information Technology (HIT) infrastructure development with consumer-oriented (C-end) internet operational models. This convergence forms a closed-loop ecological chain encompassing urban healthcare, public health, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and overall wellness.
The announcement stated that this collaboration facilitates complementary technological strengths and innovative business models for both parties, enhances the Company’s core competencies in medical cloud, big data, and artificial intelligence, improves the comprehensive strategic layout of its “Future Healthcare” industry development plan, and drives the Company’s expansion into a B2B internet enterprise and a leading medical big data service provider.
In addition, in its supplementary announcement on August 8, B-Soft provided a brief overview of the effectiveness of its strategic collaborations in recent years. As shown in the table, none of the framework agreements disclosed by B-Soft over the past three years have experienced a lack of progress or failed to meet expectations.
Progress of Framework Agreements Disclosed by the Company over the Past Three Years:
