25-Jun-16 A project to create an intelligent health system for Ho Chi Minh City will be submitted to the People’s Committee in Jul-16. The city Department of Health is working to establish a common data centre for health by 2017. A study at 92 hospitals, 24 preventive health centres and 319 other centres found a shortage of computers at district level. [image: Viet Nam News]

24-Jun-16 BMJ and the Chinese Medical Association (CMA) have collaborated to develop a fully translated Chinese edition of BMJ Best Practice, the online decision support tool. The Chinese edition will be available online and as a mobile app. It will also contain the latest clinical guidelines and expert opinion from the CMA. [image: BMJ]

24-Jun-16 Understaffed and undertrained, Hong Kong’s end-of-life care services struggle to meet the needs of an ageing population, despite government plans to expand the stretched provisions. Hong Kong has only 19 palliative care specialists, and university training has been criticised by experts. [image: South China Morning Post]

22-Jun-16 Public hospitals in China are facing tougher scrutiny over prescriptions and tests as Beijing tries to find ways to cut costs and keep spending growth below 10%. A directive by the NHFPC aimed at controlling spending calls on its provincial and municipal branches to convey budget goals to public hospitals and establish a system for overseeing health care expenses. [image: South China Morning Post]

20-Jun-16 Wolters Kluwer, a provider of information and point of care solutions for healthcare, announced a new open-access journal, Pediatric Quality & Safety, launched online. "If we are to make progress on eliminating patient harm and improving health outcomes, we need a venue in which our work can be shared," said Richard McClead, Co-Editor-in-Chief. [image: Wolters Kluwer]