Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital Chapter 232: An Alternative Way to Earn Money

Seeing Zhao Heng looking sowhat happy, Gu Jia was also very pleased at heart.

Gu Jia used her current position as a representative of Eastern dicine to vigorously strive for the rights to share Engineer Liu’s software with Zhao Heng.

Speaking of Gu Jia, her status in the company has been rising significantly, especially now as the competition between Pfizer and Sino has reached a fever pitch, with Eastern Hospital being their largest client.

Adding to that, Pfizer has been particularly aggressive this year, as if determined to secure all orders in one go, which even the people at Sino Company find hard to understand.

It’s as if Pfizer has employed all its network resources and connections solely for this year’s bidding, giving the impression they’re cashing in all at once before leaving.

This leaves the people at Sino Company utterly perplexed, wondering if they can even continue like this in the future!

Soon after the matters in the oncology departnt were settled, Engineer Liu couldn’t wait any longer and imdiately returned to work on the software, while Zhao Heng and Gu Jia walked out of the departnt side by side.

"Old classmate, congratulations! The software you developed with Engineer Liu is highly regarded by the company and has a very promising market outlook; currently, there’s virtually no heart pacemaker tuning software like it on the dostic market."

Gu Jia smiled at Zhao Heng and said.

"What does your company say about it? Such a good software, yet it’s just and Liu who get to share it?"

Zhao Heng asked sowhat puzzled.

"Old classmate, what do you take our company for? Liu is just an employee at the company, doing maintenance work. The software he developed himself will, of course, not be seized by the company. Now, we’re treating the software you and Liu developed together as a dical-related product for sale, following all proper procedures and divisions as per regulations."

Hearing Zhao Heng’s question, Gu Jia explained seriously.

If a company were to pounce and seize anything that’s developed by its employees, it would never have grown to this scale.

"Hmm, then your company is really quite good."

Upon hearing Gu Jia’s explanation, Zhao Heng felt relieved. He wasn’t familiar with software co-developnt and didn’t understand the intricacies involved.

According to what Gu Jia said, it seems Sino is treating the software developed by Liu and him as a kind of investnt project.

"The system is quite well established, but the pressure is imnse. I almost got fired earlier for not eting performance targets."

Gu Jia lanted, noting that if it weren’t for eting Zhao Heng, she wouldn’t still be at Sino, let alone doing so well.

Soon, while chatting and walking, they arrived at the hospital entrance.

"I have so matters to attend to, so I won’t see you off."

Zhao Heng said after glancing at Gu Jia.

"Alright, go ahead."

Gu Jia nodded; she had many things to discuss with Zhao Heng, but since he ntioned being busy, she had to drop it.

Seeing Gu Jia off, Zhao Heng returned to his office.

Upon entering, Xu Man Ni, who was resting, saw Zhao Heng looking in high spirits and couldn’t help asking, "What’s the good news?"

"Didn’t I collaborate with an engineer from Sino Company to develop software about heart pacemaker tuning? The first version is already complete. With so further refining, it can be put to use."

Zhao Heng explained joyfully.

"So soon? The market for heart pacemakers is substantial."

Xu Man Ni replied, surprised and happy.

Her boyfriend had achieved such excellent results, so she was undoubtedly pleased.

It’s known that there are around 200,000 patients in our country with heart pacemakers. With such a large number needing surgeries or replacents, the software developed by Zhao Heng and Liu would be essential, generating considerable software usage fees annually from major hospitals.

Moreover, this inco is long-term.

"Yeah, Liu just ntioned to that the initial software usage fee is approximately fifty thousand per year, and by the third year, paynts will no longer be necessary."

Zhao Heng comnted further.

"Therefore, if dozens or even hundreds of hospitals use this software, wouldn’t it generate several million in revenue each year?"

This ti, Xu Man Ni was really taken aback. She hadn’t realized software developnt could be so profitable. She knew about Zhao Heng’s collaboration with a Sino Company engineer, but she didn’t understand the programming aspect, only seeing Zhao Heng tinkering with code and clinical data in his free ti.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Heng had launched a significant success, and even if he only received half of the earnings, it would still be a substantial inco.

This was just sothing Zhao Heng did on the side.

"More or less, I feel like a down paynt is now within reach."

Zhao Heng said happily.

"Well, the anesthesia assistant you’re developing could likely follow a similar collaboration model, right? After all, for this type of dical software, the programming code isn’t the most challenging part—the clinical data is."

Xu Man Ni suddenly rembered that Zhao Heng had another project about developing an anesthesia-related software called "Anesthesia Assistant."

Furthermore, the market for anesthesia-related dical software is much larger than that for pacemakers, which ans once developed, the annual revenue could be more than just a few million.

In fact, the challenge in developing dical software isn’t in the programming but in needing soone like Zhao Heng, who has high clinical expertise and so understanding of programming and data.

Neither pure engineers nor pure doctors can independently develop this sort of dical software easily.

"Yes, actually, much clinical data can be utilized right now; it’s just that with the strain on dical resources, everyone is so busy there’s no ti to venture into other things."

Zhao Heng nodded and said.

"If the anesthesia assistant software is released, then perhaps you won’t just be looking at a down paynt, but potentially even buying a house."

Xu Man Ni smiled and said.

"Yeah, the clinical data and models for the anesthesia assistant are almost complete. Now I just need to find a software company to collaborate with, letting the company develop the underlying frawork and program."

Zhao Heng said.

"Make sure you find a trustworthy partner."

Xu Man Ni reminded Zhao Heng.

"I know."

Zhao Heng replied, though he’s still unsure what kind of company to look for.

The Anesthesia Assistant isn’t like the small-scale heart pacemaker tuning software; the pacemaker software has a limited market, at best bringing in around four to five million a year, giving Zhao Heng approximately two million.

However, the Anesthesia Assistant is different because every hospital with an anesthesia departnt can use this software.

Additionally, the pricing for the Anesthesia Assistant is going to be much higher than the pacemaker software. In Zhao Heng’s conception, it should be priced at least at a hundred thousand a year.

To be more precise, limiting the usage of this Anesthesia Assistant to tertiary hospitals could net considerable rewards as there are about 1,600 tertiary hospitals nationwide now.

Even if only a small fraction of these hospitals use the Anesthesia Assistant, the return would be very significant indeed.