05-May-15 Indonesia's president Widodo has said that all private hospitals will be required to serve residents holding national health cards in the future, adding that their licenses will be revoked should they not comply. Under the management of the Health Care & Social Security Agency, the health card programme is intended to unify health insurance for all citizens. [image: AFP]

28-Apr-15 Capital Medica, a Japanese operator of care facilities, is seeking to acquire hospitals in Southeast Asia as it tries to get patients to choose Japan over the US and other markets for heart bypasses and other surgical procedures. [image: Seniors World Chronicle]

25-Apr-15 Data collection for intensive care in Singapore is to be standardised through a National Intensive Care Unit Registry. Data collected will include age, medical history, treatment and mortality rate of ICU patients. [image: Channel News Asia]

22-Apr-15 Demand for hospital beds in Singapore is growing faster than supply, so the government has trialled a telehealth system in which patients took basic healthcare measurements at home and shared them remotely with their doctors. The pilot showed the potential to cut readmission of heart failure patients by about two thirds due to better monitoring. [image: Future Gov]

20-Apr-15 Ageing and rapid urbanisation mean that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) could cost Indonesia as much as USD4.5 trillion from 2012 to 2030, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned. That's more than five times Indonesia's 2012 GDP. [image: Himawan Listya Nugraha/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images]