20-Oct-16 Verb Surgical, J&J’s joint venture with Verily Life Sciences, plans to produce 'truly robotic' system that will improve surgical outcomes worldwide. "If you go to Shanghai, quality of care is actually quite good, at the Shanghai Hospital... Go 40 kilometers north... not so good,” said J&J medical devices chairman Gary Pruden. “Our goal is to democratize surgery." [image: OrthoFeed]

19-Oct-16 Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings is making a bet on China’s growing healthcare market, investing SGD250 mn in a joint venture focused on the country with Columbia Pacific Management, a Seattle-based healthcare provider with operations in China. Columbia Pacific operates a hospital, two specialty clinics and three senior living facilities in China. [image: The Business Times]

15-Oct-16 Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies. The illegal service - aimed at expectant parents wanting male children - smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing, officials say. It operated across much of China and brought in USD30 mn. [image: BBC News]

14-Oct-16 A number of Chinese public hospitals have been testing and promoting electronic medical record systems in order to better serve patients. Many anticipate that, following healthcare reform, more and more public hospitals will move toward these “smart” medical services. [image: People's Daily Online]

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