14-Feb-17 Singapore has a reputation for first-class healthcare, and is a major location for medical tourism. With 610,000 people over 65 by 2020, the government has embraced technology to improve productivity. It sounds like a brave new world, but there are warning signs that must not be ignored. The main concern is the ease with which IoT devices can be hacked. [image: Empire Media]

16-Jan-17 One of the Philippines' Department of Health's initiatives to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is an eHealth Strategic Framework, which aims to integrate ICT with healthcare. The SDGs got the support of Globe through a partnership with Salud Interactiva. Globe is offering the KonsultaMD service which provides access to licensed doctors. With 24/7 phone consultation, patients receive medical assessment. [image: Cebu Daily News]

10-Jan-17 Over 80 per cent of Australians are comfortable with AI being used to diagnose common medical problems and interpret test results. However, people also acknowledge some of the limitations of AI technology and identified privacy concerns over patient records and medical confidentiality and the lack of human intuition as issues. [image: i-stock / Which-50]

28-Nov-16 Since 2010, Narayana Nethralaya has taken retinopathy screening to 36 centres across Karnataka, along with wide field digital imaging services. For the past two years, Narayana Health, in collaboration with HP, has taken telecardiology, teleconsultation and tele-ECG services to rural areas. So far, its e-health centres have reached 39,624 patients in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat and Rajasthan. [image: Intel Free Press via Wikimedia Commons]

18-Nov-16 China's adoption of innovative e-health could encourage the rest of the world to make the Internet an integral part of medical care. China's big hospitals have continually invested in upgrading their IT infrastructure. Combined with the surge in use of smartphones and big investments in innovation, e-health has a bright future in China, according to Liu Jiren, CEO of Neusoft. [image: China Daily]