The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved incentives for a PHP 603 million (USD 12 million) hospital project that will cater to COVID-19 patients in the Cagayan Valley region. Aiming to augment the high-demand hospital capacity and cater to COVID-19 patients with...
Indonesia´s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has established a genomics facility at the Cibinong Science Center (CSC), in West Java, that will be used for whole-genome sequencing, life science and environmental research. The genome research building...
Switzerland-headquartered BC Platforms (BCP), a global leader in healthcare data management and analytics, has announced an expanded partnership with Thailand’s Bumrungrad International Hospital, one of the largest private hospitals in Southeast Asia and a world...
Rey Assurance, the first dedicated and integrated health, life and critical illness Insurtech company in Indonesia, has received approximately USD 1 million worth of seed funding from the Trans-Pacific Technology Fund. The funds would be used to launch its AI-based...
Owing to the growing need for ventilators throughout the world to manage the COVID-19, K-One MediTech Sdn Bhd (KOM), the wholly-owned subsidiary of K-One Technology Bhd (KTB), will design and manufacture ventilators in Malaysia. KOM has successfully secured the...
On September 28, 2021, regional telehealth platform Doctor Anywhere and Philippine conglomerate Equicom Group, announced a joint venture (JV) to launch a telemedicine platform and develop a comprehensive digital healthcare ecosystem in the Philippines. Key features of...
Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS), a Singapore group of healthcare institutions, announced that it had integrated four solutions from California-based enterprise data company TIBCO Software into its Endeavour AI platform, which is used for...
The Thai Department of Medical Services (DMS) and Huawei Technologies Thailand have just agreed to establish a smart platform that will enable advanced medical treatments using digital technology. DMS and Huawei will use 5G technology to launch smart healthcare...
In September 2021, it was announced that Vietnam’s E-pharmacy startup Medigo secured a USD 1 million investment from venture capital firm Touchstone Partners, an early-stage Vietnamese venture capital firm that launched its inaugural USD 50 million fund earlier...
Indonesia, which is currently battling its latest wave of Covid-19, is in great need of oxygen. The government has released a mandate for oxygen producers to prioritize medical oxygen. US company Air Products (AP) is among the most prominent of the many multinational...
In response to the recent spike in demand, Iconic Worldwide Bhd (IWB), a Malaysian property, tourism, and healthcare supply company has planned to expand its range of personal protective equipment (PPE) goods to include in-vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) and...
From 2013 to 2020, the Philippine Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) has invested more than PHP 995 million (USD 20 million) for R&D projects and initiatives dedicated to Omic technologies for...
