11-Jun-16 Rwanda's Ministry of Health has signed a MOU with Korea to improve technology within the health sector. The collaboration is expected to improve cooperation in telemedicine, hospital information systems and ICT-based medical services. [image: The New Times]

10-Jun-16 Few organisations invest heavily in IT to make sure their clients use less of their product, but that’s the battle Australia’s National Blood Authority (NBA) is fighting – and winning – as it leans heavily on data and mobile technology innovations to optimise a real-time supply chain that involves most of Australia’s more than 1,300 hospitals. [image: billionphotos.com / Fotolia]

09-Jun-16 Basic healthcare is becoming less accessible to ordinary Russians. Medicine sales have fallen for the first time in Russia since 2008: Analysts recorded a 10% drop in drug sales in the first quarter of 2016. During a severe economic crisis, a growing number of Russians can no longer afford to buy medicine. [image: Andrei Iglov / RIA Novosti]

09-Jun-16 Turkey’s Acıbadem Hospitals Group, which recently bought Bulgaria’s largest health group for EUR125 million, is now considering investments in Serbia and Romania in a bid to double growth figures over the next five years. The group plans a big health center in Amsterdam as well. [image: Hurriyet Daily News]

09-Jun-16 IHH Healthcare's wholly-owned subsidiary Parkway Pantai is developing a 450-bed multi-specialty tertiary hospital in Shanghai. Called ParkwayHealth Shanghai International Hospital, it is slated for opening in 2020. It will offer a range of specialties and healthcare services, with a focus on cardiology, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, urology, minimally invasive surgery, general surgery and internal medicine. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]