19-Mar-15 MedPlus Health Services, India’s second largest pharmacy retail chain, said it plans to open 10,000 outlets across the country in the next three to four years. MedPlus currently has 1,244 pharmacy stores in 12 states. [image: SignNews]

19-Mar-15 Australians are missing out on too many new medicines and waiting longer for reimbursement than in other OECD nations, according to a new report. The report found Australia ranked 18th out of 20 comparable OECD countries in terms of access to new medicine. [image: The WorldNews Network]

19-Mar-15 An ASEAN mutual recognition arrangement on good manufacturing practices (GMP) inspection for manufacturers of medicinal products had been deemed a priority initiative. An agreement on monitoring the quality of pharmaceutical products is expected to be approved and signed by the ASEAN countries in tandem with the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015. [image: Gunawan Kartapranata]

18-Mar-15 In response to capacity pressure faced by Singapore's public healthcare, the government expects to add at least 1,700 acute beds by 2020, and Singapore’s private hospital market is expected to grow at 13% annually between 2015 and 2020. [image: Singapore Business Reveiw]

18-Mar-15 Big Data solutions can help acquire, organise and analyse the zettabytes of data produced every day in the healthcare industry to optimise resource allocation, plug inefficiencies, reduce cost of treatment, improve access to healthcare and advance medicinal research. For example, prevention and management of Dengue can be better effected by analysing data on outbreaks, meteorology and social media keywords. [image: Business Intelligence]