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Taiwan well-poised for healthcare in IoT: Google

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10-Sep-15 Taiwan is well-poised to develop web-based smart healthcare services in the long term thanks to its strong presence in the global hardware supply chain, Google Taiwan says. A strength in Taiwan's IoT drive is its excellent medical and health insurance systems, which have done the groundwork for Taiwan to move into smart medical services that require integration with hardware. [image: Wang Ying-hao]

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Japan establishes cardiac imaging training centre in Russia

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09-Sep-15 Medical Excellence Japan in collaboration with Toshiba Medical Systems has established a Russia-Japan cardiac imaging training centre, which will provide services to improve cardiac diagnostic imaging in Russia. The project is one of the programmes conducted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2013 to promote and accelerate the medical globalisation. [image: Medical Device Network]

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Addressing Western medtech design bias in emerging markets

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08-Jul-15 Emerging markets are the medtech industry’s best prospects for growth, but most medical devices are still designed in the US and Europe. That can present a problem when companies try to adapt devices or develop new devices for non-Western markets, which may have different cultural, financial, and other considerations that can affect the success of a product. [image: University of Minnesota]

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India's industry leaders call on government to empower domestic medical devices

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02-Sep-15 Industry leaders have called upon the Government to take strong measures to drive the consumption of medical devices in the country, bring clarity to regulatory policy, correct inverse import duties and provide fiscal incentives to give the domestic manufacture of medical devices a strong impetus for growth, and turn India into a global innovation hub for medical technology. [image: ET Healthworld]

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Reaching rural med tech markets in India

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Aug-15 Most medical device suppliers are primarily focussed on the metro and tier I markets in India. Suppliers are finding that markets in semi-urban and rural areas behave quite differently. The hospitals in tier II and III cities are smaller and operate at lower price points than those in large cities. Their remote locations also throw up logistical challenges. [image: India Today]

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