24-Nov-16 In Indonesia, the Coordination of Benefits (COB) provision is changing the country’s healthcare landscape. While the COB is not new, its ability to now be combined with the JKN national health insurance and private insurers should benefit the industry. From the perspective of insurance users, this can pave the way for higher productivity by using private medical providers. [image: Wikipedia / Shawn M. Spitler / U.S. Marine Corps]

23-Nov-16 With over 2,600 beds, 2,300 doctors and 13 hospitals across several states in India, Max Healthcare is one of the leading healthcare service providers in the country. Max has selected IBM’s Mobile Client Care solution to transform and personalize its IT infrastructure into an intelligent, scalable and secure environment. [image: ET Healthworld]

22-Nov-16 Queensland health professionals concerned about people relying on questionable physical and mental health information they have dug up on the internet have banded together to kill off "Dr Google". As part of a project called Words for Wellbeing, hailed as an Australian-first, they will be prescribe books, websites and apps along with medicines. [image: ABC]

21-Nov-16 Construction of the AUD630 mn (USD471 mn) new Bendigo Hospital in Australia has been finished one month ahead of schedule. When it opens in 2017, it will have capacity for 372 inpatient beds, 72 same-day beds, 11 operating theatres, an integrated cancer centre, a new 25-bed maternity unit and an 80-bed mental health unit. [image: Bendigo Hospital Project]

21-Nov-16 NEJM Group, the publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine has introduced NEJM Frontiers in Medicine, which delivers articles from the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch to healthcare providers in China. [image: Becker's Hospital Review]