15-Mar-16 Hong Kong's Evergrande Health Industry has entered into a strategic collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Health Care, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, to develop hospital projects in mainland China. The agreement includes strategic guidance on hospital design, clinical and hospital management and staff training, as well as assistance in developing collaborative hospital projects and planning healthcare service models. [image: Reuters]

14-Mar-16 "China's ZTE Corp has announced the release of its mHealth product: all-in-one physical examination terminals, with both professional and home editions available.
The health terminal is a multi-parameter instrument with integrated functions for blood pressure, ECG, blood oxygen saturation and urine test, and actively collaborates with a back-end cloud." [image: ZTE]

10-Mar-16 Practo, the Bengaluru headquartered online healthcare platform, has seen very rapid growth over the last eight years with a presence in 35 Indian cities and in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Backed by USD120 mn investment capital Practo aims to expand into 100 cities in India and grow as a global digital healthcare company. [Image: Notey]

11-Mar-16 In Korea, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an underdeveloped and poorly invested sector. But in hospitals, AI is used for various purposes such as analyzing medical videos to pinpoint diseases and suggesting optimized treatment plans. In Korea, various venture startups are developing healthcare technologies based on AI, including Buno, Lunit and Neofect. [image: Business Korea]

11-Mar-16 The number of Indians suffering from kidney failures has doubled in the last one and a half decades. Diabetes is believed to be the most common cause and with its growth, the number of kidney patients is likely to rise. [image: Zee News]