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Emerging market medical education goes digital

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10-Mar-15 Online medical education is an opportunity to address the shortage of skilled health workers in many emerging markets. Even surgery can now be taught remotely, an approach being used in Thailand. In Vietnam, an NGO-run video platform connects HIV specialists with community health workers. Doctors in the Philippines have founded an online community called HealthXPh for discussions about healthcare. [image: HAIVN]

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Indonesia’s plan for a healthcare growth spurt

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24-Feb-15 GE Healthcare will double the size of its local healthcare team in ASEAN by the end of 2015. In Indonesia, its strategy is to increase access to higher quality healthcare, while reducing costs for patients, by developing innovative solutions designed specifically for the primary care market, and with the Indonesian user in mind. [image: The Pulse / GE Healthcare]

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Jakarta to build cancer hospital and develop palliative care

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21-Jan-15 The Jakarta Health Agency is to build a 30-storey cancer treatment hospital in West Jakarta, with doors expected to open in 2017. It will also choose three doctors and two nurses from each of 10 hospitals in Jakarta to receive palliative care training from Singaporean doctors. [image: Care Bright]

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Doubts about the future of universal healthcare in Indonesia

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15-Jan-15 Two recently released studies predict that Indonesia’s government will be unable to achieve universal health coverage by 2019 as planned. There is a huge gap in access to healthcare between different regions. A lack of hospitals in underdeveloped regions has prevented people accessing healthcare, leading to low claim rates. [image: Moynier Liana]

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Great leap forward for Life Satisfaction in China, Indonesia

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30-Oct-14 When asked to rate what is most important to them in life, people across the world list health, education for their children, and safety from crime. Owning a cellphone or a car do not matter so much. People in emerging markets are a lot more satisfied now than they were in 2007, according to a new survey, with Indonesians and the Chinese surging ahead in their accumulation of contentment.

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