22-Sep-15 Singapore's Rowsley Ltd will convert its Iskandar project in Malaysia into a healthcare hub instead of a mixed-use township, the company said on Tuesday, amid a rising supply of homes in the special economic zone. [image: Free Malaysia Today]

02-Sep-15 Industry leaders have called upon the Government to take strong measures to drive the consumption of medical devices in the country, bring clarity to regulatory policy, correct inverse import duties and provide fiscal incentives to give the domestic manufacture of medical devices a strong impetus for growth, and turn India into a global innovation hub for medical technology. [image: ET Healthworld]

27-Aug-15 Healthcare information management services (HIMS), one of the fastest growing BPO sectors in the Philippines, is targeted to grow by 25% to $5.9 billion by 2020. For 2015 healthcare BPO is expected to hit $1.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion in 2014. HIMS BPO is now the third largest segment in the contact center industry. [image: HIMS Conference]

Aug-15 Most medical device suppliers are primarily focussed on the metro and tier I markets in India. Suppliers are finding that markets in semi-urban and rural areas behave quite differently. The hospitals in tier II and III cities are smaller and operate at lower price points than those in large cities. Their remote locations also throw up logistical challenges. [image: India Today]

24-Aug-15 Telstra Health has announced several key contract wins and implementations of hospital electronic medical record systems in Malaysia and Thailand, adding to its existing customer base in Asia and its established offices in Hong Kong, Malaysia and India. [image: Telstra Health]