21-Apr-15 Singapore-based healthtech start-up mClinica has acquired a stake in cloud-based clinic management service Medix for an undisclosed sum. By partnering with mClinica, which maintains digital networks of pharmacies across Asia, Medix will gain operational expertise and access to mClinica’s client base, which includes some of the world’s largest healthcare companies. [image: Tech In Asia]

06-May-15 Taiwan’s Apex Medical Corp is foraying into India to tap the growing healthcare market and plans to sell ‘quality and affordable’ equipment to hospitals and nursing homes. “We chose India... because it has a huge population and a new government that is willing to make a big change,” Daniel Lee, CEO, Apex Medical Corp, told reporters. [image: Apex Medical Corp]

30-Apr-15 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for more medical reform measures to overcome difficulties in the healthcare system. Key areas include preventing hospitals being financed by drug sales, improvements in medical insurance payments, more private investment, and establishing a multi-tiered diagnosis and treatment system. [image: Xinhua Finance Agency]

29-Apr-15 Turkey’s public-private-partnership (PPP) model healthcare projects, dubbed the “city hospitals”, are to receive significant amounts of investment in the coming years, according to Turkey’s Minister of Health, Mehmet Muezzinoglu. “Turkey aims to increase the hospital bed capacity to 28 per 10,000 in population by 2018, and to 30 by 2023,” Muezzinoglu said. [image: Invest In Turkey]

21-Apr-15 Amcare Women's and Children's Hospital has become the first foreign-invested medical services institution in China to set up a general hospital, amid growing opportunities in the private hospital business. [image: Caixin Online]