16-Mar-15 China's domestic medical equipment industry has been growing rapidly, but at the same time it faces problems such as lack of scientific innovation the high-end market being dominated by foreign companies. The reality in China is that doctors spend all their available time with patients every day, and there is no time to engage in innovation. [image: China Daily]

13-Mar-15 China's Neusoft has created Ningbo Cloud Hospital, an open cloud computing platform that connects hospitals, primary healthcare, specialists, community doctors, pharmacies and insurance companies, among others. The government endorsed platform enables a dynamic health record to be built for each citizen in Ningbo, which can be checked on mobile phones and used for self health management. [image: Buisness-Cloud]

13-Mar-15 China will name and shame medical equipment manufacturers caught evading official procedures while selling products overseas. Companies found to have applied for export certificates with fabricated data or other fraudulent methods will be banned from re-applying for two years. [image: China Business Review]

13-Mar-15 China had more than 18,500 drugs waiting for approval at the end of 2014, up by a third from 2013, the official Center for Drug Evaluation has said, data that seems to support industry concern that it is becoming more difficult to get medicines approved in the China market. [image: AFP_Anthony Wallace]

10-Mar-15 The connectivity of chronic disease patients discharged from hospital to their healthcare professional in China is virtually non-existent. Third-party websites are now emerging to fill this gap, but until healthcare reform starts to address patient care outside the hospital by funding disease management programs, patient self-management will remain critical. [image: eyeforpharma]