Huazhuo Technology completed a round of financing of 100 million yuan, led by Qiming Venture Capital

AscendAscus, a cloud-native architecture-based medical technology application operating system company, has announced the completion of a RMB 100 million A++ round of financing, which was led by Qiming Venture Capital.

Cloud-native operating system for medical applications

Previously, the name Huazhuo Technology did not appear frequently in the market, and it can be seen from the shareholder structure that it has obtained investment from more than ten professional investment institutions, including Sogou, Puhua Capital, Yida Capital, Ruijian Capital, PanCheng Assets, Junjie Capital and so on. What kind of company is Huazhuo Technology, which can get the favor of so many investment institutions in the "obscurity"? There are many medical information manufacturers, what are the characteristics of Huazhuo technology products?

Huazhuo Technology is the first company to carry out a new top-level design and development reconstruction of traditional medical information system based on cloud-native architecture. Huazhuo Technology is committed to changing the integrated development, implementation services, and user application acquisition mode of traditional medical information systems based on the operating system built by the new technology architecture, with the intention of breaking the development bottleneck of medical information companies under the traditional framework.

Focusing on the future medical scenarios and hospital business development needs, the company integrates the thinking ideas of top domestic medical experts, and creates a new generation of digital hospital information system that breaks through the limitations of traditional IT architecture based on the cloud native technology stack, providing full-process and intelligent information services for hospital medical workers, patients and business managers.

Huazhuo's cloud-native architecture

The application of the cloud in all walks of life has become an irreversible trend. "Virtual hosting, B/S architecture, or non-cloud-native systems moving to the cloud" are all referred to as "clouds."

Cloud native is a way to build and run applications, consisting of four elements - microservices, containers, DevOps, continuous delivery, the core of which is the product designed and developed for the cloud, running in the best posture on the cloud, taking full advantage of and leveraging the features and benefits of the cloud.

Huazhuo Technology uses the latest cloud-native technology stack to containerize traditional hospital business systems, improve flexibility and maintainability based on microservice architecture, support continuous iteration and operation and maintenance automation with agile methods and DevOps, and use cloud platform facilities to achieve auto scaling, dynamic scheduling, and optimize resource utilization.

The intuitive benefit is increased utilization of hardware resources. For small and medium-sized hospitals that do not need to have their own computer rooms, the investment and operation and maintenance costs of hardware computer rooms can be eliminated, and for large hospitals, cross-regional medical institutions, and regional medical associations/medical communities, a large or repeated investment in hardware can be greatly saved, and the elastic expansion needs of future cloud resources of hospitals can be met.

The immediate purpose is to use the new technology architecture to better meet the needs of the hospital's current and future business development. Traditional hospital information system modules are scattered, business data is fragmented, there are information island problems, and it is subject to insufficient infrastructure agility, complex operation and maintenance, and high management costs.

Huazhuo Technology is based on the cloud native smart hospital solution, the product terminal presentation is the hospital trinity (medical, service, management) business system, based on the standardized underlying data interface and microservice module, naturally realize the hospital cross-department, cross-departmental, cross-hospital medical business and data integration, and then achieve the goal of "three ones" (talents a chess game, a network of resources, a financial account) of medical institutions, and truly achieve the effect of "one cloud" in the hospital hospital and "one cloud" in many medical institutions in the region.

More far-reaching layouts

Today's hospitals are in the early stage of intelligence, and there are a large number of needs that have been curbed, specialized, specialized, personalized, grouped, and ai and big data applications in various aspects. On the supply side, no large company can monopolize, all medical software and capability modules come from many medical information industry participants and indirect software capability providers, and there are a large number of subdivision capabilities due to the company's product planning, technical capabilities, market channels and other factors have not been developed.

The technical architecture and concept of the integration of Huazhuo technology products (involving IaaS layer, PaaS layer, SaaS layer) can be compared to the underlying system of Android. Huazhuo Technology does not have a large number of old products and old customers, with a new top-level design and technical architecture, into the field of medical technology. After years of reconstruction and development of the entire set of hospital core business systems, in this process, the company has extracted a large number of medical software development tools, unified API interfaces and data standards, formed a developer platform in the medical field, greatly reduced the development threshold of medical software and the integration threshold of indirect software capabilities, and reduced the access door of the medical industry ecology. The Huazhuo Medical Application Market and Microservices Market, built with cloud-native rapid deployment and rolling upgrade capabilities, simplify customers' access to medical applications. The ultimate purpose of everything is to provide more possibilities for accelerating the enrichment of the medical information industry ecology.

Break through the development bottleneck of traditional HIS enterprises

The low-code development model can help companies solve the historical problems of "demand customization" and "small growth of enterprises" in the industry. The customized service of traditional hospital products means that the software code and technical personnel are delegated to the hospital site for service transformation. The growth of traditional medical information enterprises is directly proportional to the personnel, otherwise there are not enough personnel, poor service, and customers will naturally lose, resulting in the expansion of enterprises to a stage after it is difficult to grow up.

Huazhuo Technology's development model allows the introduction of third-party software service teams to implement services on behalf of the company. The third-party software service team focuses on customer customization needs, based on the low-code platform to only carry out front-end customization and deployment implementation, to achieve product standardization, cloud native architecture to break through the implementation bottleneck of traditional architecture products, to solve the problem of customer service quality service decline or service personnel soaring caused by the company's scale expansion.

Zheng Jie, chairman of Huazhuo Technology, said: "China's medical informatization industry is still in the early stage of intelligence. On the one hand, the penetration degree of the basic business system of the hospital is uneven, and a large number of hospitals lack the empowerment of the intelligent system; on the other hand, there are still a large number of valuable subdivision systems and capabilities to be tapped. Huazhuo Technology is down-to-earth, with a smarter hospital information system to substantially improve the hospital's medical services and management capabilities, and hopes to become a paver in the medical information industry. Thank you very much for the recognition of Qiming Venture Capital, and special thanks to all the old shareholders for their support along the way. We will uphold the mission of 'making medical and health services smarter' and make unremitting efforts for the vigorous development of China's medical industry." ”

Xubo Hu, Lead Partner of Qiming Ventures, said: "We see trends and opportunities in digital and cloud-native technologies in the healthcare sector. Among them, the deployment of medical business applications in the cloud will be expected to solve the traditional problems of hospital informatization construction. Based on the cloud-native hybrid cloud computing architecture, Huazhuo Technology can meet the hospital's 'one hospital, multiple districts' group development model, and the goal of one cloud of regional medical communities, and realize the integrated management of clinical and business. We expect Huazhuo Technology to continuously help hospitals and regional 'medical communities' to upgrade their smart services, promote the development of medical intelligence through cloud-native technology, and grow into a next-generation hospital digital leading enterprise." ”