21-Mar-16 The company rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has released a research paper on e-health, spruiking the benefits of monitoring health and telehealth with doctors. 50% of respondents use telehealth for its convenience; 34% for better managing their health; and 21% in place of going to a doctor when they are unable to get an appointment. [image: NBN]

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22-Feb-16 For many Chinese mHealth means not only being more aware of their health, but avoiding time-consuming waits in long hospital queues. These changes also hold the promise of changing the healthcare system to one that favors long-term community-based care, says a report by the China Center for mHealth Innovation. However, mhealth in China needs to achieve much more before the status quo is upended. Many apps are simply copycats out to make a quick buck and a consistent set of legal frameworks is yet to be developed. [image: China Daily]

18-Feb-16 Australia's Telstra will continue to invest in its Telstra Health division to allow it to grow in scale, capability and reputation, Telstra said as it released its half-year financial results, which showed net profit USD2.1 bn. Activities in the half included acquiring Health IQ, which supplies patient flow software, and community care software firm EOS Technologies. [image: Pulse + IT]

07-Feb-16 India's top private hospitals, seizing on a shortage of critical-care doctors, are expanding into the remote management of intensive care units around the country, and in neighbouring Bangladesh. Data from the Indian Medical Association show the country needs more than 50,000 critical care specialists, but has just 8,350. [image: Thomson Reuters]