27-Aug-15 Healthcare information management services (HIMS), one of the fastest growing BPO sectors in the Philippines, is targeted to grow by 25% to $5.9 billion by 2020. For 2015 healthcare BPO is expected to hit $1.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion in 2014. HIMS BPO is now the third largest segment in the contact center industry. [image: HIMS Conference]

24-Aug-15 Telstra Health has announced several key contract wins and implementations of hospital electronic medical record systems in Malaysia and Thailand, adding to its existing customer base in Asia and its established offices in Hong Kong, Malaysia and India. [image: Telstra Health]

25-Aug-15 Universitas Indonesia and GE Healthcare have announced a telemedicine program that will connect the country’s leading clinicians to some of its most deprived patients. The program will address a lack of tools at clinicians’ disposal to diagnose and treat pregnant women and infants, by equipping clinics with a rugged portable ultrasound system. [image: The Pulse]

24-Aug-15 Within two years of Vietnam's satellite hospital program, the rate of patients sent to central hospitals has declined sharply and several satellite hospitals are now performing advanced medical procedures. Khanh Hoa hospital’s director said heart patients in the province now have very little need to go to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment. [image: healthplus.vn]

18-Aug-15 The Philippines government has completed the construction and expansion of 68 health facilities in Central Luzon. 32 of the facilities are located in Bulacan; 15 in Pampanga; 2 each in Aurora, Tarlac, and Zambales; and 1 each in Bataan and Nueva Ecija. The program is intended to revitalize primary health care and upgrade hospitals to decongest end-referral hospitals. [image: Hospital Directory Asia]