16-Jul-16 Singapore's Tan Tock Seng Hospital has cut A&E visits by frequent hospital-goers by a third. This reduction was achieved through comprehensive post-discharge medical care from the hospital's Virtual Hospital team, which provides care and advice via phone, or visits patients in their own homes. [image: MIMS]

12-Jul-16 Major hospitals in Korea's second largest city Busan - Dong-a University Hospital, Kangdong Hospital and CMS Korea - are visiting Russia to enter the market and entice Russian patients. The number of foreigners visiting Korea for medical treatment stood at 297,000 in 2015, up 11% from 2014. Russian patients accounted for 7% and Busan was their major destination. [image: Busan Medical Tourism]

11-Jul-16 Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Health has encouraged public hospitals to begin preparing for full financial and managerial autonomy. Financial autonomy among hospitals is designed to help reduce state expenditures so that funds can be diverted to preventive medicine and targeted community-care programmes. [image: Phương Vy]

05-Jul-16 Malaysian inpatient admissions appear finally to have turned around in the first quarter of 2016 after three consecutive quarters of decline, with IHH Healthcare Bhd up 10% year-on-year and KPJ Healthcare Bhd up 4%. The turnaround suggests that the drag on healthcare business volume from the implementation of the goods and services tax has finally worn off. [image: Bloomberg / Affin Hwang forecasts]

06-Jul-16 There are many new private hospitals up and running in HCMC but a majority of them are grappling with lower-than-expected patient visit rates although their equipment is modern, according to the HCMC Department of Health. This is a paradox, as public hospitals have long been overwhelmed by increasingly large numbers of patient visits. [image: VNA/VNS The Anh]