30-Apr-15 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for more medical reform measures to overcome difficulties in the healthcare system. Key areas include preventing hospitals being financed by drug sales, improvements in medical insurance payments, more private investment, and establishing a multi-tiered diagnosis and treatment system. [image: Xinhua Finance Agency]

30-Apr-15 Surgical procedures could cost twice as much depending on which public hospital you attend. That is the finding of a new report by the independent agency monitoring the health system after it studied costs at more than 80 of the nation's largest public hospitals. [image: The Courier Mail]

29-Apr-15 Turkey’s public-private-partnership (PPP) model healthcare projects, dubbed the “city hospitals”, are to receive significant amounts of investment in the coming years, according to Turkey’s Minister of Health, Mehmet Muezzinoglu. “Turkey aims to increase the hospital bed capacity to 28 per 10,000 in population by 2018, and to 30 by 2023,” Muezzinoglu said. [image: Invest In Turkey]

29-Apr-15 While many hospitals around Australia have adopted smart card technology, medical centres and neighbourhood GPs are yet to fully engage with it. Though the most obvious benefit is to control physical access to buildings, other factors could deliver substantial benefits to Australian doctors, from secure storage of patient data, to infection control. [image: Facility Management]

28-Apr-15 Capital Medica, a Japanese operator of care facilities, is seeking to acquire hospitals in Southeast Asia as it tries to get patients to choose Japan over the US and other markets for heart bypasses and other surgical procedures. [image: Seniors World Chronicle]