27-Nov-15 Beritasatu Media, part of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group, is developing a mobile app called 1Health that will allow users to consult with doctors remotely. “1Health is a portal to educate people on health issues but… we want to offer services where people can consult doctors with an appointment or through video conference,” said Irwan Hartanto, COO of 1Health. [image: Beritasatu Media Holdings]

26-Nov-15 Indian health tech startup Practo has launched a customized app for physicians, paediatricians and dentists that will allow them digitally to prescribe laboratory tests and check results in real time. The app, Practo Ray, also includes a database of nearly 100,000 commonly prescribed medicines. [image: The Economic Times]

25-Nov-15 Vietnam's Ministry of Health has urged all hospitals to boost their application of IT to improve medical examinations, treatment and management. MoH IT Dept Deputy Director Pham Xuan Viet said that information technology had become one of the standards in which to evaluate hospitals. [image: Viet Nam News]

23-Nov-15 More than a quarter of the doctors in Singapore's public healthcare sector are foreigners. At the end of 2014 public hospitals and polyclinics had more than 2,100 foreign doctors and the number continues to grow as Singapore faces a shortage of trained medical staff. Most are primary care doctors, with only 477 foreign specialists. [image: ST / Yeo Kai Wen]

23-Nov-15 Vietnam's will increase public hospital fees in early 2016, instead of Dec-15, Nguyen Nam Lien, the Ministry of Health has said. With this fee increase, patients will pay two to four times more than when using healthcare services at state-owned hospitals. Currently 73% of the population is covered by health insurance, which means 25 mn people are self-paying. [image: Dantri]