Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has recently launched its public services portal, offering an integrated and better public access to online health-related administrative procedures. The portal which can be accessed at dichvucong.moh.gov.vn, provides...
Indonesian healthtech startup, Alodokter, successfully raised USD 33 million in Series C funding in October 2019. The round was led by Sequis Life, with the participation of Philips, Heritas Capital, Hera Capital and Dayli Partners, among the few. Previous round...
The Malaysian government has allocated a total of MYR 30.6 billion (USD 7.37 billion) in its budget for healthcare in 2020. The allocation was tabled during the Budget 2020 presentation in Parliament in October, and represents an increase of 7% from last year’s...
The proposed bill that aims to establish the Philippine eHealth System and Services in the Philippines has passed the initial phase in the House of Representatives. The technical working group (TWG) of the House committee on health approved the bill following the...
The Health Minister of Indonesia, Dr. Nila F Moeloek, has shared the results of a recently conducted family survey revealing that the lifestyles of 82% of Indonesian households can be considered to be unhealthy. The Ministry uses 12 indicators to determine the...
NewWave Health Sdn Bhd (NHSB), a joint venture company between state-owned Johor Corporation’s (JCorp) subsidiary, N2W Corporation Sdn Bhd (NCSB) and UK-based Smartmed Global Ltd (SGL) will spend MYR 20 million (USD 4.7 million) under its digital healthcare business...
Metro Pacific Investments has revealed it will sell a 42.5% stake in the country’s largest hospital chain, Metro Pacific Hospitals Inc., to a consortium led by private equity firm KKR & Co for around USD 685 million. The sale, which values the whole unit at...
German manufacturer of bioabsorbable orthopedic metal implants, Syntellix, inaugurated a production site in Singapore’s Tuas Biomedical Park on 10 September 2019. The manufacturing facility hosts the first dry CNC processing of highly advanced magnesium alloys ever...
Thailand has been ranked at the country with the sixth-best healthcare system in the world in a study elaborated by the American magazine CEOWORLD. According to CEOWORLD, the South East Asian country is among few regional peers which managed to place in top 10 in...
Under a cooperation agreement between the authorities of Ho Chi Minh City (HCM City) and Incheon City, a conference on Medical tourism was held in October in HCM City to discuss opportunities for Medical tourism for companies from Vietnam and South Korea. South Korea...
SK Plasma, a producer of blood products which is part of the conglomerate SK Group, announced that in early September that it has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Indonesian Red Cross and a state-owned Indonesian pharmaceutical company,...
Prudential Corporation Asia has introduced Pulse, an all-in-one digital app with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered health information. Officially unveiled on 12 August, Pulse was first launched in Malaysia in March 2019 and will be available in ten other markets...
