01-Jun-16 PingAn, a Chinese insurance and banking conglomerate, has launched "Mobile Medical Records" through its PingAn Health Cloud. PingAn Health Cloud is building a core capability in electronic medical record management, and is partnering with healthcare providers to establish a neutral, authoritative, and personalized health platform. [image: PR Newswire]

26-May-16 Telstra has been awarded a lucrative Australian Federal Government contract to build and operate a National Cancer Screening Register, but health and privacy experts are concerned about the security of the data. Managing director of Telstra Health Shane Solomon said that the organisation would be using four recently acquired health businesses to build and administer the register. [image: Joel Carrett]

18-May-16 China's big three Internet giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, and several tech startups, are getting involved in healthcare. Digital healthcare is becoming big in China. In 2014 approximately USD700 mn in venture funding poured into digital healthcare in China, with investors supporting everything from e-commerce, online physician-patient communication services, to disease management apps. [image: CKGSB Knowledge]

05-May-16 An electronic system could save patients millions of hours in queues at public sector clinics in Hong Kong. In 2014/15, each patient had to wait two hours on average. The system tracks the patient from arrival to the time they enter the consultation room, and queue status is updated on a screen informing patients how long they have to wait. [image: South China Morning Post]

05-May-16 All government hospitals in India's Haryana state, will have senior citizen counters to facilitate elderly people coming for treatment. Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said the state government has decided to open 'Senior Citizen Corners' in all government hospitals to ensure better services to them.