The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has been accelerating the process to register all Filipinos in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP). As of August 2020, about 85.4% of the 110 million Filipinos were registered members of PhilHealth,...
Government-owned SGInnovate, in partnership with local startup Accredify, has developed a blockchain-based solution Digital Health Passport to facilitate more efficient management of personal COVID-19 medical records. The platform allows for medical documents of...
The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has signed an agreement with PPT Public Co Ltd. to build a cancer pharmaceutical factory, the first in Thailand that will cover all types of oncology products, with the goal of reducing the cost of related drugs and...
After more than two months of piloting, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health officially opened a network connecting 1,000 medical examination and treatment facilities with 27 central hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The new telehealth network is part of an...
A smart helmet designed to detect COVID-19 will be available in the Philippines as KC Wearable, a Chinese technology and innovation company, announced its partnerships with two distributors in the Philippines. The KC N901 Smart Helmet can detect if the wearer has high...
The Ministry of Health in Vietnam has launched a new electronic portal for publishing the prices of medical equipment. The prices will be published on this website: https://quanlytrangthietbiyte.com/tra-cuu-ttb-y-te According to the Acting Minister of Health of...
According to a report in the Jakarta Post, the Indonesian government is considering a plan to develop medical tourism in the country in an effort to provide high quality health care to the public and create a new source of national income. According to a 2018 report...
Malaysia’s first oncofertility referral center or known as the Advanced Reproductive Centre (ARC) has been formally established at the Canselor Tunku Mukhriz Hospital of National University of Malaysia (HCTM), Kuala Lumpur. It is part of the Malaysian...
Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is working together with Royal Phillips, a leading health technology company, to establish the Digital and Computational Pathology Center of Excellence. The SGH Center of Excellence aims to advance pathology practice by implementing a...
Bangkok-based Bumrungrad International Hospital (BIH), one of the largest private hospitals in South East Asia, has teamed up with real estate developers to set up luxury wellness centers for wellness tourism. The move is aligned with the Thai government’s intention...
Researchers from Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) collaborating with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and also with local institutions such as the Singapore General Hospital, Duke-NUS and Tysana Pte Ltd have developed an antibody...
Following the 2019 approval from the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Committee of a plan to set up a genome sequencing facility aiming to raise Thailand’s competitiveness in the medical industry, Thailand Genomics Sequencing Center was established as a...
