30-Apr-15 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for more medical reform measures to overcome difficulties in the healthcare system. Key areas include preventing hospitals being financed by drug sales, improvements in medical insurance payments, more private investment, and establishing a multi-tiered diagnosis and treatment system. [image: Xinhua Finance Agency]

29-Apr-15 Turkey’s public-private-partnership (PPP) model healthcare projects, dubbed the “city hospitals”, are to receive significant amounts of investment in the coming years, according to Turkey’s Minister of Health, Mehmet Muezzinoglu. “Turkey aims to increase the hospital bed capacity to 28 per 10,000 in population by 2018, and to 30 by 2023,” Muezzinoglu said. [image: Invest In Turkey]

21-Apr-15 Amcare Women's and Children's Hospital has become the first foreign-invested medical services institution in China to set up a general hospital, amid growing opportunities in the private hospital business. [image: Caixin Online]

16-Apr-15 Johnson & Johnson announced it will establish a new Analytics Hub for its regional operations in Singapore. Through this project, the company aims to develop cutting-edge analytical assets by using data from its internal information along with external data sets. [image: Adalidda]

03-Apr-15 Between 2002 and 2012 the number of private hospitals in Turkey grew at 14.8% on average. The core growth drivers are favorable government support, internal demand from Turkey’s burgeoning middle class, and external demand as Turkey emerges as a leading healthcare tourism destination. [image: eyeforpharma]