28-Aug-17 Close to 900 investors sealed health-tech deals in 2015 in Asia, up 25% from 2014. The National University of Singapore Business School forecasts tech-based healthcare start-ups that reduce costs for patients will continue to do well. [image: ST / Lau Fook Kong]

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19-Aug-17 Singapore's Fullerton Health acquired 43 medical centres and five specialist clinics from Australia's second-largest private hospital operator, Healthscope, for AUD55 mn (USD44 mn). Healthscope decided to sell its medical centres to focus on its hospitals and international pathology operations. [image: Bloomberg]

16-Aug-17 Singapore General Hospital has been comparing how its patients fare after surgery, against other hospitals. The result of months of data collection and analysis has been shorter stays, lower readmission rates, lower costs, and improved patient outcomes. [image: ST File]

15-Aug-17 Singapore healthcare bioanalytics firm Invitrocue and A*Star's Genome Institute have opened a joint laboratory to conduct research on personalised medicine for cancer treatment. So far, 300 patients have used the service, which costs from SGD50-200 (USD37-147). [image: Singapore General Hospital]

14-Aug-17 Asian healthcare fund Quadria Capital has announced it will invest an undisclosed sum in FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7, to help transform the hospital into a leading multidisciplinary tertiary care provider in Vietnam. [image: FV Hospital]