The Development Status of Chinese Physician Groups

Dr. Smile Medical Group

Dr. Smile Medical Group (Dr. Smile) was established on July 1, 2014, is the first cross-specialty physician group in mainland China, and its founder is Dr. Zhang Qiang, a renowned vascular surgery expert in China. The group has administrative headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai. With the expansion of the scale and maturity of the brand, it gradually divested the teams of various specialties and invested in the establishment of independently operated groups of doctors of various specialties, such as the hernia surgeon group, etc. At the beginning of 2016, Dr. Zhang Qiang's group successfully completed the transition from multi-specialty to vascular specialties, becoming the first vascular surgeon group in China.

Dr. Zhang Qiang Group consists of a team of outstanding surgical specialists from former affiliated tertiary hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing, providing safe, convenient and accessible quality medical services with first-class medical technology and good reputation. Dr. Zhang Qiang Group has a number of exclusive medical technology and equipment, the first in China to have AccuVein, Venefit, Vscan and other lower extremity varicose vein diagnostic and treatment equipment, the current contracted institutions of the four hybrid (composite) operating room and a da Vinci surgical robotic system can be completed in all types of vascular complications surgery.

Dr. Zhang Qiang Group has also signed contracts with international hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities using the PHP (Physician Hospital Partnership) model. The nine international hospitals currently under contract are: Shanghai Hosin Hospital, Shanghai Ward Medical Center, Beijing United Family Hospital, Beijing United Family Rehabilitation Hospital, Zhejiang Greentown Cardiovascular Disease Hospital, Beijing Shanfang Hospital, Qingdao United Family Hospital, Tianjin United Family Hospital, and Shanghai United Family Hospital.

Dr. Zhang Qiang's group has become the number one brand in China for the treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities by virtue of its internationally advanced standards and exclusive treatment technologies, attracting patients from over fifty countries and regions. 2015 ranked first in the country in terms of the number of daytime surgeries for varicose veins of the lower extremities. in January 2016, together with Beijing United Family Rehabilitation Hospital (BJU), the group opened the exclusive Vascular Rehabilitation Center for patients with lower extremity atherosclerotic occlusive diseases in China, In February 2016, we will launch the Physician Group's Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis Diagnostic and Treatment Center, which will provide patients with acute deep vein thrombosis with a green channel for rapid diagnosis and treatment (initiated within 60 minutes of hospital admission).

Huayu Medical Union

It is China's first doctor group formed by institutionalized doctors, founded in March 2015, initiated by two doctors, a professional manager in the medical industry and a lawyer, and Sun Hongtao, an associate professor of cardiovascular surgery at Fu Wai Cardiovascular Disease Hospital in Beijing and deputy director of the hospital, is one of the founders.

The group's doctors come to Beijing area tertiary hospitals, such as: cardiovascular department of Beijing Fu Wai Hospital and Anzhen Hospital, brain surgery department of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, ophthalmology department of Tongren Hospital, orthopedics department of Beihang San Hospital and hepatobiliary surgery department of Beihang People's Hospital, etc.; all the doctors' titles are more than deputy director.

Hartrum Cardiac Rhythm Specialists Group

The Hartrum Cardiac Rhythm Specialists Group was founded by seven renowned young and middle-aged cardiac arrhythmia specialists. They are from six large tertiary-level teaching hospitals, including Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing Military General Hospital, Beijing Friendship Hospital, and Peking University First Hospital.