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11-Jan-18 A Shanghai start-up called MediStar Health pairs cancer patients with foreign doctors via teleconference. The company, an eight-person operation founded in 2014, charges about USD3,000 to translate hospital records and set up one-hour online consultations for frustrated patients. [image: Fred Dufour_AFP_Getty Images]
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12-Dec-17 Queensland Health’s online patient information portal provides general practitioners with access to patients’ hospital records and is being billed as a success by the state government, with 1,550 GPs signed up and 35,800 interactions in the Health Provider Portal. [image: Healthcare IT]
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23-Nov-17 India's KiviHealth, an online doctor-patient collaboration tool, has raised USD400,000 in its pre-series A round led by Claris Capital. KiviHealth has more than 2,000 paying subscribers (doctors) and over 1 million patient registrations on the platform. [image: KiviHealth]
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20-Nov-17 Seeking to overturn the traditional hospital-led medical record-keeping system, Seoul-based startup MediBloc has set out to create a new patient-centered health database platform using blockchain technology, where the patient, rather than hospitals, owns his or her own medical records. [image: Park Hyun-koo / The Korea Herald]
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Health IT and eHealth are two of the most promising areas of Digital Health in the Asia-Pacific region, a Global Growth Markets survey has found. Countries that showed the strongest support include two of the largest, where current penetration levels are relatively low: China and Indonesia.
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