17-Aug-16 Microsoft Malaysia and Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science & Technology (CREST) have signed an MOU to drive connected healthcare innovation through a CREST-Microsoft Health Innovation Hub. The digital health hub will provide end-to-end services for developers, start-ups and researchers looking to co-innovate and co-sell telehealth, smart access, remote patient monitoring, drug adherence, and corporate wellness. [image: Digital News Asia]

16-Aug-16 Saensuk Smart City in Thailand, developed with Dell and Intel, is a Thai municipality with 46,000 local residents, 15% of whom are 65+. It is a three-year public-private partnership with the first aim of supporting older people in their homes through IoT-powered applications including monitoring of vital signs, fall detection, emergency notifications, environmental monitoring and safety tracking. [image: Dell]

15-Aug-16 CT Asia Robotics is one of many Thai firms investing in healthcare for the aged in a country where the working-age population will decline this year. Diaper maker DSG International has seen adult diaper sales grow 30% this year. Another company seeing opportunity in the demographic change is Samaphan Health, which sells mattresses and respiratory products to aid sleep. [image: Reuters / Athit Perawongmetha]

11-Aug-16 Ho Chin Minh City in Vietnam plans to spend more than USD254 mn on three general hospitals in the city’s outlying districts. The construction of the hospitals, which will help reduce 80-90% of patient overload at city or central-level hospitals, is expected to start in 2017. [image: Vietnam Net]

11-Aug-16 Elderly healthcare in Vietnam has yet to meet the needs of aging patients due to lack of medical staff and resources for geriatric wards. Only 36% of provincial hospitals have geriatric wards. The Ministry of Health plans to enhance the capacity of geriatric wards, aiming at comprehensive health care services at hospitals. [image: The Voice Of Vietnam]