
Xingshulin, a mobile health company that completed its $32 million Series C financing in January this year and embarked on comprehensive commercialization and internationalization, has announced a new strategic shift today: transforming from a physician-focused tool into a mobile platform for physicians’ professional development and clinical communication and collaboration.
Xingshulin has also revamped its product lineup. For instance, Medical Record Folder has been repositioned as “Doctors’ Own Cloud Ward,” evolving from a tool for recording and storing electronic medical records into a platform for managing medical records, conducting patient follow-ups, and facilitating collaboration and sharing.
Zhang Yusheng, founder of Xingshulin, also revealed that the company has officially completed the acquisition of Shenghua Information, a data processing cloud platform enterprise. Following the acquisition, Xingshulin will apply its cloud-based medical data segmentation and crowdsourced review technology to data processing in Bingli Jia (Medical Record Folder), enhancing the product’s capabilities in large-scale data collection and processing, thereby establishing Xingshulin’s new core competitive advantage in big data.
Following this revamp, Xingshulin has integrated its two products, Medical Record Folder and Yi Pocket, through “Clinical Practice Circle,” striving to build a cloud-based vertical social platform centered on “medical cases” to engage physicians—namely, the “Cloud Academy.” Zhang Yusheng believes that conducting more effective academic exchanges during fragmented time has become an essential need for nearly all physicians in China, which has catalyzed the demand for vertical social networking in mobile healthcare. The fundamental goal of Cloud Academy is to facilitate the “downward flow” of high-quality medical resources, thereby enhancing the capacity of primary-care hospitals to manage common diseases.
At Cloud Academy, leading figures in the medical field regularly make personal appearances to share and discuss clinical cases with a broad base of grassroots physicians through online lectures and interactive discussions, helping them address challenging issues encountered in their daily practice. Since its inception, dozens of industry leaders have joined with their teams, including Professor Wang Renzhi, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and Professor Wei Ruili from Changzheng Hospital affiliated with the Second Military Medical University.
Although tech giants such as BAT have long cast covetous eyes on the internet healthcare sector and made continuous moves, Zhang Yusheng remains confident about the future. He stated that the mobile health industry in 2016 would continue to see vigorous competition among numerous players: “It is impossible for a single company to dominate this field. Any enterprise with distinct differentiating features that contributes to the optimized allocation of medical resources will break through bottlenecks and become a star of the industry’s future.”