About Us – Kinetic Health Tech
Our
Story
We are a clinician-led team from the Division of Cardiology, HKU Medicine. For over a decade, under the leadership of Prof. Kai-Hang Yiu and Dr Qing-Wen Ren, our group has focused on big-data cardiology, artificial intelligence, and heart-failure prediction. Together, we have published more than 40+ peer-reviewed papers in the world’s most influential journals.
Today, we translate that same hospital-grade science into Heart Guardian – Hong Kong’s first closed-loop, AI-powered preventive cardiology platform. We combine exclusive access to the CDARS database (7.5 million anonymised patient records), clinically validated machine-learning models, and seamless integration with Ethics Medical Centre to deliver personalised, continuous heart care for every stage of cardiovascular risk (ACC/AHA Stages A, B, and C).
Prof. Kai-Hang Yiu
Founder
Professor Kai-Hang Yiu received his Bachelor (2001) and Doctor (2012) of Medicine degrees from the University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2011 as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Cardiology, promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in 2015 and Clinical Professor in 2022. He has completed his PhD in 2016 at the Leiden University, the Netherlands on “Clinical application of cardiac imaging: echocardiography and computed tomography”. He has prolifically published over 190 peer-review original articles in international peer-review journals. Among these, he was either first or corresponding author in 70 of them; including over 40 articles with impact factors exceeding 5 (Maximum 30). In addition, Professor Yiu was one of the first in Asia (2010, Lepzig Germany) to perform transcatheter aortic valvular implantation (TAVI) and had performed over 40 procedures during his overseas training.
Professor Yiu’s clinical interest includes interventional cardiology (coronary and structural) and advanced cardiac imaging (both invasive and non-invasive). He is also leading the cardiology service in the HKUSZ hospital and currently the deputy director of the Cardiac and Vascular Centre, HKUSZ hospital. Under his leadership, the cardiology division was awarded the Key Development Specialty Award by the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission in 2020 – 重點培育學科. He is the recipient of the 23rd Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Quality Improvement Global Award, the only institute in Asia to be so recognised.
Dr Qing Wen Ren
CEO
Post-doc from Faculty of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong ;
Research focus: Big data analysis on cardiovascular diseases, AI medicine
34 published SCI paper in total with impact factor over 200, including European Heart Journal, Nature Communication, The Lancet Regional Health, etc.
2023 The Faculty Outstanding Research Award – Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
2022 Top ten influential papers in the field of heart failure in China in 2022