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20-Nov-17 Seeking to overturn the traditional hospital-led medical record-keeping system, Seoul-based startup MediBloc has set out to create a new patient-centered health database platform using blockchain technology, where the patient, rather than hospitals, owns his or her own medical records. [image: Park Hyun-koo / The Korea Herald]
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20-Nov-17 Volpara Solutions of New Zealand has received regulatory clearance for its quantitative breast imaging tools in Japan and Taiwan, as Class II medical devices. 5 million women in Japan are screened for breast cancer using mammography each year. [image: Volpara Solutions]
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Health IT and eHealth are two of the most promising areas of Digital Health in the Asia-Pacific region, a Global Growth Markets survey has found. Countries that showed the strongest support include two of the largest, where current penetration levels are relatively low: China and Indonesia.
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13-Nov-17 India is one of the fastest growing dental markets, alongside China, with 80,000 practicing dentists, a market worth USD2 billion and annual growth of 20%. In the last five years, there is a positive trend towards Computer-Aided Design. [image: ET Healthworld]
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11-Nov-17 Virtual reality could bring about a revolution in China's medical field. "Currently, medical experiments are carried out on animals and human volunteers... a virtual human body will provide a new method," said Zhao Qinping of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. [image: Xinhua]
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