09-Oct-17 China will move forward public hospital payment and reimbursement reform to optimize resources for public health, in an effort to have medical expertise better reflected in prices and values, according to a decision at a State Council executive meeting. [image: Xinhua]

06-Oct-17 Chinese tourists are coming back to Thailand at the right time: Private hospitals there need to justify their sky-high valuations. Bumrungrad Hospital, which gets more than 60 percent of its sales from foreigners, is up 16 percent since Jan-17. [image: Bloomberg / Bloomberg Gadfly]

05-Oct-17 Chinese drug firm Fosun Pharma has acquired a 74% controlling interest of Hyderabad based Gland Pharma at a valuation of USD1.1 bn. The new owners intend to keep present management in charge of the day-to-day running of the company. [image: Gland Pharma Limited]

03-Oct-17 Beijing Hospital, one of China's leading public hospitals, is to implement OmniComm's phase I clinic trial automation solution, bringing the number of China clients for its TrialOne medical trial data management solution to seven. [image: OmniComm Systems Inc]

01-Oct-17 Jack Ma of Alibaba, Tencent Holdings' Pony Ma, and Peter Ma of PingAn Insurance - collectively known as the "three Mas" - are jointly looking to turn Ping An into a full-blown online health insurance and life insurance vendor. [image: Imagine China via AP images]