31-Mar-15 Alibaba's healthcare subsidiary will tie up with Zhejiang DiAn Diagnostics to develop an online hospital platform. Ali Health is looking to technology to help overhaul China's fragmented and over-burdened healthcare system. [image: Greetlane News]

31-Mar-15 China will almost double the number of its general doctors by 2020, trim its public sector and improve technology, as it seeks to reform a healthcare system plagued by overloading and poor rural services, its main administrative authority has said. [image: Fox News]

31-Mar-15 The healthcare unit of infrastructure giant Metro Pacific Investments Corp (MPIC) is set to build the Philippines' largest private hospital in the Zamboanga Peninsula. MPIC said it has signed a long term lease agreement with Western Mindanao Medical Center, a hospital with a 25-year history of service in Zamboanga. [image: The Philippine Star]

31-Mar-15 One out of five patients in Malaysia's private hospitals is expected to turn to the overburdened public healthcare system after a new Goods & Services Tax (GST) is implemented on 1-Apr-15. The Malaysian Medical Association stressed that the shift is expected to be a temporary one lasting three to four months, pending medical insurance top-ups. [image: Saw Siow Feng / Malay Mail Online]

30-Mar-15 Latin American pharmacy chains are expanding both in terms of geography and breadth of services. In Chile, Colombia and Peru, over 75% of pharmacy retailing is controlled by 3 or 4 large players. As these markets consolidate, foreign giants are expected to take note and show interest in entering the region. [image: Global Health Intelligence]