02-Sep-15 In Australia, IT’s ability to collapse time and space will increasingly alter how healthcare is accessed and delivered, enabling the right care every time. The implications for health service planning and education are profound. Key considerations include enabling equity of access to the benefits of IT and ensuring this enhances the human connection we need when we feel ill. [image: The Conversation]

02-Sep-15 Apollo Hospitals, India’s largest provider of medical treatment, announced that it aims to open an office in Cambodia to train local doctors and would encourage more Cambodians to travel to its facilities in India for complicated medical procedures. The company is looking to set up an office in the capital, and eventually develop telemedicine facilities in Cambodia. [image: Money Control]

22-Sep-15 Singapore's Rowsley Ltd will convert its Iskandar project in Malaysia into a healthcare hub instead of a mixed-use township, the company said on Tuesday, amid a rising supply of homes in the special economic zone. [image: Free Malaysia Today]

02-Sep-15 Industry leaders have called upon the Government to take strong measures to drive the consumption of medical devices in the country, bring clarity to regulatory policy, correct inverse import duties and provide fiscal incentives to give the domestic manufacture of medical devices a strong impetus for growth, and turn India into a global innovation hub for medical technology. [image: ET Healthworld]

27-Aug-15 Healthcare information management services (HIMS), one of the fastest growing BPO sectors in the Philippines, is targeted to grow by 25% to $5.9 billion by 2020. For 2015 healthcare BPO is expected to hit $1.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion in 2014. HIMS BPO is now the third largest segment in the contact center industry. [image: HIMS Conference]