17-Oct-16 India is looking at ways of persuading Chinese medical tourists to go to India. Having attracted patients from Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, India is now targeting the Chinese market. More Chinese are suffering from diabetes and cancer, lifestyle diseases. The traditional “Come to us as we are very cheap” approach will not work in China. [image: IMTJ]

22-Oct-16 China's has plans to develop a far-reaching social credit system, a plan that the Communist Party hopes will build a culture of “sincerity” and a “harmonious socialist society". The plan attempts to control China's poorly regulated market economy, to punish companies selling poisoned food or phony medicine, to expose doctors taking bribes and uncover con men. [image: Independent]

20-Oct-16 The CareVoice and AXA Health announced the first Medical & Health Insurance Experience APP for high-end customers in China. AXA Health Members can make appointments directly from the APP and access health information and special offers. "We bring to China new affluent class a brand new experience of high-end medical insurance, redefining standards,” said Jack Yuan, CEO of AXA Health. [image: The CareVoice]

20-Oct-16 Verb Surgical, J&J’s joint venture with Verily Life Sciences, plans to produce 'truly robotic' system that will improve surgical outcomes worldwide. "If you go to Shanghai, quality of care is actually quite good, at the Shanghai Hospital... Go 40 kilometers north... not so good,” said J&J medical devices chairman Gary Pruden. “Our goal is to democratize surgery." [image: OrthoFeed]

19-Oct-16 Singaporean state investment firm Temasek Holdings is making a bet on China’s growing healthcare market, investing SGD250 mn in a joint venture focused on the country with Columbia Pacific Management, a Seattle-based healthcare provider with operations in China. Columbia Pacific operates a hospital, two specialty clinics and three senior living facilities in China. [image: The Business Times]