30-Jan-15 China's mobile healthcare market is expected to see fast growth and hit 12.5 billion yuan (USD2 billion) by 2017, according to the China Medical Pharmaceutical Material Association. There are already more than 2,000 mobile healthcare applications in China and 527 million mobile Internet users. [image: mHealthWatch]

31-Dec-14 There's been a lot going on in emerging markets in 2014. Here's a look back at 12 notable Medtech and Healthcare growth markets stories that you may have missed, month-by-month, including "Indonesia’s new national health insurance scheme", "Korea to nurture medical device industry", "Turkey’s pharma market is ripe for profit", "China healthcare draws investors" and more.

02-Dec-14 Thanks to good mobile phone penetration in Guinea (63%), Liberia (60%) and Sierra Leone (44%), mHealth strategies could be an effective solution to mapping Ebola and providing education. IBM launched a disease-mapping system in Oct-14, allowing people to send free text messages about Ebola to the authorities, which feed into heat-maps linking emerging issues to location information. [image: IBM Research].

08-Jan-15 SK Telecom, Korea’s biggest mobile carrier, says it will invest more in healthcare business projects in 2015. “Our plan to boost health businesses generating 1 trillion won revenue by 2020 is still effective,” said an SK Telecom official. As faster networks power services related to the Internet of Things, healthcare has become a new growth engine. [image: SK Telecom]

07-Jan-15 Flexible wearable embedded systems and connected devices are poised to advance Malaysia’s healthcare industry. The government has established a ‘Connected Healthcare Cluster’, to drive technology advancements in the application of Internet of Things for the healthcare arena. [image: Connected World]