06-Apr-17 Natali, Israel's largest private healthcare provider, became a subsidiary of China's Sanpower group in 2014. Since then they have implemented their eHealth/TeleHealth technologies in the Chinese market, amassing 120,000 Israeli subscribers and over 4 mn in China. When asked about the Chinese healthcare market, Nimrod Altman, CEO of Natali Healthcare Group , noted "Barriers are collapsing". [image: PRNewsFoto / Natali Healthcare Group]

04-Apr-17 The American medical deep learning company Enlitic has agreed to cooperate with healthcare big data company Beijing Hao Yun Dao Information & Technology ("Paiyipai") to provide diagnostic imaging in Health Check centers across China. The partnership was agreed following a successful 10,000 chest x-ray trial of Enlitic's patient triage platform. [image: Enlitic]

27-Mar-17 Ericsson has partnered with China Mobile and AstraZeneca to connect healthcare equipment using NB-IoT technology. China Mobile’s Jiangsu branch and Ericsson will work together to trial new applications using cellular IoT technologies like NB-IoT and provide network terminal management to support equipment management. Additionally, AstraZeneca is also working with the Wuxi government to open a China Commercial Innovation Center. [image: Wireless Week / Ericsson].

21-Mar-17 The National Telehealth Center (NTHC) in the Philippines is tasked with pushing adoption of ICT, including EMR, in the 2,500 government-funded health facilities. Around 1,000 of them are using EMR and the NTHC is partnering with government and non-government institutions in many areas of eHealth to push for deployment of EMR and other solution throughout the Philippines. [image: NTHC]

13-Mar-17 A classic internet land grab is underway in China, with over 2,000 well-funded companies launching health related apps into the market. With players ranging from giants such as Tencent to true start-ups, most are expected to fail and and the ones remaining will have to hope that the government decides to trust in market forces rather than taking over itself.  [image: Digital Graphiti]