18-Mar-15 In response to capacity pressure faced by Singapore's public healthcare, the government expects to add at least 1,700 acute beds by 2020, and Singapore’s private hospital market is expected to grow at 13% annually between 2015 and 2020. [image: Singapore Business Reveiw]

18-Mar-15 The sick are paying the price as doctors at Queensland's public hospitals face mounds of paperwork and struggle with miss-matched software systems. The problem is said to be state-wide and patients face "falling through the cracks between hospitals and GP clinics" because of out-dated IT systems. [image: The Morning Bulletin

17-Mar-15 Malaysian hospital operator IHH Healthcare announced that subsidiary Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust is acquiring five nursing homes in Japan for 5.97 billion yen (USD49.5 million). The five facilities are being acquired from Japan's UBI. [image: Singapore Trading Online]

13-Mar-15 India only has 19 health workers (including doctors and nurses) for every 10,000 people, lower than World Health Organisation (WHO) norms, which prescribe 25 per 10,000. [image: Odisha News Insight]

10-Mar-15 The connectivity of chronic disease patients discharged from hospital to their healthcare professional in China is virtually non-existent. Third-party websites are now emerging to fill this gap, but until healthcare reform starts to address patient care outside the hospital by funding disease management programs, patient self-management will remain critical. [image: eyeforpharma]