09-May-17 Australia will provide AUD374 mn (USD280 mn) over the next two years to continue and expand its My Health Record System. The costs will be partially offset by delivering health system efficiencies when used by doctors, specialists and hospitals. [image: Australian Digital Health Agency]

28-Apr-17 Digital China Holdings, China's largest IT service provider, has announced the establishment of China Healthcare Big Data Development Co Ltd. The new company will promote the "Interconnection, Open Sharing" of Big Data in healthcare. [image: Digital China Holdings]

18-Apr-17 The Korean government, with the assistance of bio health industry companies, will build a “distributed bio big data system” using healthcare information accumulated at medical institutions. The system seeks to develop new personalized medicines based on patient level data as well as help develop medical devices that leverage artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. [image: Business Korea]

08-Apr-17 Japan's health ministry plans to build a computer network that will let every medical institution share the medical records of all their patients. The network should be in place by 2020, using an existing ID system for social security. [image: Reuters]

06-Apr-17 Korea's medical institutions expanded their businesses into 20 countries during 2016, according to a report by the Ministry of Health & Welfare. During 2016, Korean medical institutions continued their spread of the medicalss "Korean wave”, entering countries including China, the USA, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, and the UAE as well as many others, three more countries than in 2015. [image: Business Korea]