HuiGuQinXing Orthopedic Physician Group Attracts Over 100 Experts and Partners with 40+ County Hospitals Within Four Months

On October 28, the Orthopedic Surgeons Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association held the 2017 Xi’an Jiaotong University “Belt and Road” International Orthopedics Summit Forum in Xi’an, the ancient capital with a millennium-long history. The event brought together numerous orthopedic experts from both China and abroad. Through theoretical lectures, surgical technique demonstrations, and case-based discussions, the forum provided a systematic and comprehensive overview of orthopedic knowledge. This initiative aimed to implement the national “Belt and Road” strategy, elevate the academic standards of orthopedics in China, and promote academic exchange and experience sharing among orthopedic surgeons worldwide.

VCBeat learned that at the conference, Huigu Qinxing Physician Group, established on June 21, 2017, also held a press event. Professor Wang Kunzheng, a renowned authority in orthopedics and Chairman of the group’s Expert Committee, witnessed this milestone.

Liu Hua, Chairman of Huigu Qinhang Physician Group, stated, “Although we have been established for a relatively short period, we have signed agreements with numerous orthopedic specialists and county-level hospitals. To date, we have partnered with over 100 orthopedic experts,”In 11 provinces and municipalities across China"Signed contracts with more than 40 county-level partner hospitals."

It is not the first physician group in China, yet it has recruited the largest number of orthopedic specialists and signed contracts with county-level hospitals in the shortest time. What is its secret?

Huigu Qinxing Physician Group is composed ofA physician group co-founded by Professor Wang Kunzheng, incoming Chairman of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and a renowned orthopaedic specialist, together with other leading domestic orthopaedic experts including Qu Tiebing, Gao Zhongli, Lv Guohua, Guo Wei, Liu Qiang, Wang Yisheng, Zhang Xianlong, and Yao Zhenjun., committed to balancing high-quality medical resources, enhancing primary healthcare service capabilities, promoting effective collaboration among orthopedic surgeons, highlighting the brand value of orthopedic specialists, and ensuring the safety of physicians’ independent practice. Ultimately, it matches patients with the most suitable experts to provide high-quality, end-to-end orthopedic medical services.

TakeProfessor Wang Kunzheng’s Expert TeamIn the field of medical practice, his areas of expertise include vascularized fibular grafting and artificial joint replacement surgeries for the hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, and ankle. He was the first in China to apply vascularized fibular grafting for the treatment of avascular necrosis of the femoral head and old femoral neck fractures. With a leading number of such procedures performed nationwide and favorable patient outcomes, this surgical technique has gained widespread recognition as a superior option for early-stage avascular necrosis of the femoral head and has been promoted across China. His team was among the earliest to perform artificial joint replacements for the hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, and ankle, with the volume of total hip arthroplasties ranking at the forefront in Northwest China. Furthermore, he pioneered breakthroughs in complex hip replacement surgeries for patients with ankylosing spondylitis and developmental dysplasia of the hip, and has successfully performed a large number of highly challenging revision joint arthroplasties.

There are many more expert teams like this at the Huigu Qinxing Physician Group, which is why other orthopedic surgeons are also willing to join.

On one hand, it is grounded in the mission of “promoting universal love and advancing benevolent medical practice”; on the other, it addresses the balanced distribution of high-quality medical resources, enhances primary healthcare service capabilities, facilitates effective collaboration among orthopedic surgeons, highlights the brand value of orthopedic specialists, and safeguards the security of physicians’ independent practice. Ultimately, it matches patients with the most suitable experts to deliver high-quality, end-to-end orthopedic medical services.

“We aim to uphold the vision of ‘precision diagnosis and treatment for bone diseases, enabling a vibrant life through rehabilitation,’ and fulfill our mission of ensuring that orthopedic patients in China have equitable access to professional, timely diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Our goal is to become the most trusted physician group and hospital group among Chinese orthopedic specialists, primary-care hospitals, and orthopedic patients,” Liu Hua told reporters.

As the new healthcare reforms continue to advance, the demand for physicians to practice at multiple locations has become increasingly urgent. Physician groups have emerged as a practical model for enabling multi-site practice in adaptation to the healthcare market, which is also why they attract numerous physicians to join.

Its emergence balances high-quality medical resources, serving as the key to alleviating the difficulty of accessing care at large hospitals and addressing the challenge of patient retention at primary-care institutions; it also relieves many physicians’ concerns, enabling them to take the step toward multi-site practice.

At the press conference, Qu Tiebing argued that physician groups indeed play a fundamental and leading role in resource allocation within the healthcare market. They not only reflect the individual economic value of physicians but should also provide better prospects for professional development. Multi-site practice has opened a window for physicians, transforming their relationship from one solely with a single hospital into a diversified one. This shift allows physicians to begin engaging more fully in social life, ultimately fostering a healthier operational dynamic with public hospitals, which benefits every healthcare professional and individual within the medical industry.

What are the forms of multi-site practice for physicians? According to Yimi Research, the main forms include outpatient consultations, case consultations, surgeries, and ward rounds, with orthopedics holding the greatest advantage in carrying out these activities.

In his view, “2017 was the inaugural year of the explosive growth in physicians’ multi-site practice.”

The surge in multi-site practice has created favorable conditions for the rapid development of physician groups. So, what services can Huigu Qinxing Physician Group provide to doctors?

Liu Hua listed the following service items:

First, provide orthopedic surgeons with expedited surgical scheduling: By connecting with expert services through the platform, surgical plans are formulated for patients requiring surgery, preoperative guidance is provided to the lead surgeon, and hands-on demonstration is conducted during critical steps of the procedure. The platform offers end-to-end coordination services for experts.

During the surgical procedure, the Huigu QinXing platform primarily provides physicians with preoperative assessment guidance, intraoperative demonstration and guidance, postoperative rehabilitation guidance, as well as preoperative examinations and risk assessment. Specifically, it guides county-level physicians in formulating surgical plans, specifying requirements for relevant pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and making necessary preparations, while providing hands-on teaching during critical steps of the surgery. Postoperatively, follow-up visits and rehabilitation guidance are conducted via the Huigu APP, and subsequent medication regimens are recommended based on the patient’s condition and expert opinions.

Second, provide professional department development planning services for primary healthcare institutions, precisely match and facilitate the allocation of medical resources, address challenges in departmental development at the grassroots level, comprehensively enhance the standard of departmental construction, and build disciplines with competitive advantages.

Conduct a comprehensive “diagnosis” of the department’s current status (including personnel, equipment, clinical capabilities, and departmental management). Based on the assessment results and in light of the hospital’s actual circumstances, formulate recommendations for departmental development, precisely match medical resources for primary-care hospitals, and develop an implementation plan for integration. Finally, the platform will conduct periodic evaluations of the department’s development outcomes and submit them for acceptance by the department and the hospital.

Third, Huigu Qinxing Physician Group has partnered with renowned domestic orthopedic experts to establish a specialized and systematic online/offline technical training system, truly empowering grassroots orthopedic physicians to enhance their clinical diagnosis and treatment capabilities.

“Regarding future plans,” Liu Hua told reporters, “we will first refine the operating model of the Huigu Qinhang Physician Group, and then gradually implement our strategic roadmap.”

In his plan,The first step is to establish a physician group and a specialty-focused medical consortium.By assembling a hybrid physician group of Chinese orthopedic experts and leveraging an O2O model, we provide four types of empowerment support and seven product system services to primary and secondary medical institutions. This establishes the standard service protocol for the Huigu Qinxing Physician Group, builds an orthopedic medical service platform alongside a social branding and education platform for orthopedic physicians, and constructs regional orthopedic specialized medical consortia.

Step 2: Establishing Physician Groups + Hospital GroupsBy establishing self-operated, holding, and equity-participating specialty hospitals, we are fully committed to building a medical complex model integrating orthopedics and rehabilitation, and to constructing professional regional orthopedic diagnosis and treatment centers. We implement unified operational, service, and brand standards, establishing regional diagnosis and treatment centers with orthopedics and rehabilitation as core disciplines in suitable cities. By introducing local expert teams as partners to share resources, and operating hospitals through models such as technology transfer and shared studios, we provide patients with professional orthopedic diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, and health management services, aiming to build China’s most trusted orthopedic physician group and hospital group.

Step 3: Establish a platform-based orthopedic medical group.By leveraging the “orthopedic surgeon group + Internet” model to capitalize on the advantages of professionalism, authority, aggregation, and sharing, we are building an integrated, full-chain orthopedic platform-based medical group and an orthopedic big data integration platform. This entity seamlessly combines online and offline services, encompassing orthopedics, rehabilitation, academic training, talent development, an orthopedic physician community, information systems, hospital management, and supply chain solutions.

“We are currently seeking financing and welcome other physicians to join our platform.“We aim to serve as ‘agents’ for orthopedic specialists, precisely matching their expertise with the needs of primary-care hospitals, facilitating the engagement of orthopedic experts at the grassroots level, and building China’s most professional alliance of orthopedic surgeons. By expanding the social influence of orthopedic physicians, we match each patient with the most suitable specialist and deliver high-quality, end-to-end medical and rehabilitation services.”