16-Nov-15 AIA Group and Konica Minolta have launched a 'Digital Health Accelerator' in Singapore. The programme supports entrepreneurs and businesses to deliver innovative solutions through integrating data with healthcare delivery. 'Digital Health' is a promising growth segment, as innovative solutions empower people to manage their health using sensors, data and imaging that are now within the consumer ecosystem. [image: Konica Minolta]

12-Nov-15 Myanmar's public hospitals are now permitted to procure pharmaceuticals through a tender system. In 2014, the volume of drugs available at public hospitals was 35 times higher than in 2011. The tender system is expected to reduce the surpluses and shortages that were common under the former rationing system. [image: Taipei Times]

12-Nov-15 Doctors in satellite hospitals in South Vietnam have applied advanced medical techniques transferred from 'core' hospitals, enabling an increase in the number of patients being treated at satellite hospitals. Fourteen central hospitals have been chosen by the Ministry of Health as ‘core' hospitals responsible for transferring advanced medical techniques to 46 satellite hospitals across 38 provinces and cities. [image: Doan Tung]

11-Nov-15 Singapore's first national platform for research imaging in diseases such as dengue and tuberculosis has been opened. It is part of the Government's efforts to boost investment in health and biomedical sciences. The centre will be the first in Southeast Asia to use latest technologies like the MR/PET scanner. [image: Clinical Imaging Research Centre]

05-Nov-15 By utilising their budgets and borrowing funds, many hospitals in Vietnam have improved quality and raised confidence. In Hanoi 13 out of 41 public hospital and six health centres are taking part in privatisation programmes and there are 48 co-operation schemes allowing investors to invest in medical equipment. [image: VNA]