22-May-17 The Indian government will roll out India's first Medical Tourism and Wellness policies in Jun-17. Designed to incentivise medical tourism and wellness, they will require hospitals and wellness centres to register, and to list the prices of procedures. [image: BCCL / ET Healthworld]

22-May-17 The world’s second-largest healthcare group, Integrated Healthcare Holdings (IHH), has emerged as the front-runner to acquire Malvinder and Shivinder Singh's Religare healthcare assets, after the Malaysian hospital chain ended its decade-long association with Apollo. [image: Fortis Annual Report / Asia Samachar]

13-May-17 A mobile registration service aimed at reducing waiting time at outpatient clinics is to be rolled out in Singapore. The Health Buddy app allows patients to register for consultations using mobile devices and has been piloted since Oct-16. [image: Jonathan Choo / ST]

11-Jul-17 Kazakhstan is working on a program that will help develop medical tourism in the country. "It will be one of the directions within the framework of modernization of the national healthcare system," said Yelzhan Birtanov, the Health Minister. [image: kazinform]

11-May-17 London-based Lyca Group forayed into the Indian healthcare segment with the launch of flagship daycare facility Westminster Healthcare, in Chennai, India. "In the next five years, we have committed investments about 100 million pounds," said LycaHealth CEO Manpreet Gulati. [image: ET Healthworld]