Obsidian Folio: a healthcare CIO introduced by the error he catches before the hospital does

The masthead sets his name as a wordmark, with the edition line CIO · Essays & perspective and the page navigation beside it. Below, the cover divides into two columns. On the left a framed portrait sits on a raised navy panel, captioned with his name, designation and China as his market. On the right, under the eyebrow A selected perspective, come the first essay's topic, date and reading time, then its title as the page headline: The traceability code fails at the carton, not at the counter.

The standfirst explains the claim in two sentences, and a link opens the full essay. An availability line and a Start a conversation link follow. A reader therefore meets a testable position about where errors enter the medicine supply chain before any word about his career.

Beneath the cover, a section headed The portfolio, with the line From idea to consequence, presents the first three case studies as wide spreads. Each has a large Roman numeral in the accent colour, the case title, only its first sentence and a link to the Impact page.

Hanwen's opening sentences each carry their own scale. The first describes 1.6 million cartons a month arriving from about 2,400 manufacturers as hospitals began scanning codes. The second records a hospital distribution margin falling from 6.4 to 5.6 per cent under volume-based procurement. The third sets out 41 multinational manufacturers asking for daily data on platforms outside China. His fourth case, on keeping consumables records inside each hospital, appears in full on the Impact page, where every case also names who disagreed and what he would do differently.

After the spreads his philosophy is set as a centred passage in large serif type: he judges a system at the counter where someone is waiting, and a data flow by what its recipient will decide with it. A reading list follows, numbering the remaining essays 02 and 03, on narrowing an IT budget after procurement reform and on moving a message rather than a medical record. Three figures close this part of the page: RMB 46.8 billion of group revenue, 386 IT colleagues and a carton code error rate of 0.05 per cent.

The page then continues with his introduction, proof points, current focus and an invitation stating what he is open to.

The Career page, A folio of executive appointments, frames each of six roles in a ruled panel captioned FOLIO with its number and dates, alternate panels stepped inwards like turned pages. His record runs from a Chengdu teaching hospital's information centre through a hospital-software vendor, back to the same hospital as director of information, to a European drug maker's China business and the distributor.

The Readiness page, My boardroom folio, places his contribution and three judgement examples in one panel, his first-year approach, conflicts and independence statement in a second, and a two-column register of exposure, learning, committees and time beneath them. It says plainly that he reports to an Audit Committee rather than sitting on one, and that he is not the accounting professional such a committee needs. Both print legibly on a light background for paper copies.

Obsidian sets warm ivory text on a deep blue-black ground, with raised panels a shade lighter and a pale sand-gold accent kept for numerals, rules and links. It reads as sober and exact rather than promotional, which suits a technology executive in a regulated industry. Headings and essay titles use EB Garamond, a classical serif that gives a policy argument the weight of print; running text uses Figtree, a clear contemporary sans serif that keeps RMB figures, percentages and long case studies readable on a phone.

The design suits any leader whose strongest material is a reasoned position backed by decisions: CIOs and data leaders in insurance, logistics or hospitals, compliance-minded operations chiefs, and finance or risk leaders with an argument they have tested.