27-Jun-16 Ho Chi Minh City’s public hospitals need to make better use of IT, since a patient has to wait for 10 hours on average to be examined, experts said. The HCMC Computer Association said most hospitals need effective IT use to better manage patients’ records, reduce waiting time and improve examination and treatment services. [image: Khanh An]

20-Jun-16 Apollo Hospitals Group and Hainan Ecological Smart City Group, a Chinese industrial park developer, signed an MoU jointly to develop a highly integrated modern healthcare service facility in China's Hainan province. The hospital will have medical, nursing and paramedical colleges attached and will cater to medical tourists from China and other nations, as well as people from Hainan. [image: Indian White Paper]

25-May-16 Australia's Northern Territories government has committed AUD186 mn to the replacement of four critical clinical systems with a single, integrated patient information database that will be accessible in real-time from any of the territory’s hospitals or medical centres. The renewal program will take five years to complete and represents a comprehensive overhaul of the health system’s operational IT. [image: itnews]

25-Jun-16 A project to create an intelligent health system for Ho Chi Minh City will be submitted to the People’s Committee in Jul-16. The city Department of Health is working to establish a common data centre for health by 2017. A study at 92 hospitals, 24 preventive health centres and 319 other centres found a shortage of computers at district level. [image: Viet Nam News]

24-Jun-16 New Zealand’s medical device and health IT companies earned an overall turnover of NZD1.3 bn in 2015. Companies reported an average revenue growth of 29% for medical device and 35% for health IT. The sector is developing a vast range of technologies, with most in the lower risk groups for regulatory approval. [image: New Zealand Health IT]