03-Dec-15 Korea and Vietnam have vowed to enhance bilateral cooperation on healthcare and medical services, including developing telemedicine and exchanging technologies and data about hospital information systems (HIS). [image: Korea Net]

02-Dec-15 Telstra Health has implemented an enterprise electronic medical records (EMR) system in a AUD360 mn facility in Western Australia housing two of Australia’s newest hospitals. Telstra says successful implementation of the EMR ensure that the hospitals' digital health solutions match the state-of-the-art facilities and staff. [image: IT Wire]

26-Nov-15 Indian health tech startup Practo has launched a customized app for physicians, paediatricians and dentists that will allow them digitally to prescribe laboratory tests and check results in real time. The app, Practo Ray, also includes a database of nearly 100,000 commonly prescribed medicines. [image: The Economic Times]

25-Nov-15 Vietnam's Ministry of Health has urged all hospitals to boost their application of IT to improve medical examinations, treatment and management. MoH IT Dept Deputy Director Pham Xuan Viet said that information technology had become one of the standards in which to evaluate hospitals. [image: Viet Nam News]

24-Nov-15 The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is offering a new Bachelor of Health Science degree, including Australia's first major in digital health and analytics. The degree combines an understanding of the humanistic side of healthcare with science through the use of data and technology, and will be tailored to real life with a professional placement in the third year. [image: Pulse + IT]