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]

18-Mar-15 Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. [image: 3Dme Creative Studio / Shutterstock]

18-Mar-15 The sick are paying the price as doctors at Queensland's public hospitals face mounds of paperwork and struggle with miss-matched software systems. The problem is said to be state-wide and patients face "falling through the cracks between hospitals and GP clinics" because of out-dated IT systems. [image: The Morning Bulletin

18-Mar-15 India's drug regulatory authority plans to publish a revised National List of Essential Medicines in 2015 - long overdue as it was originally prepared in 2011 and has attracted criticism for repeated delays. The revision is very much necessary as the list is linked to regulating the price of medicines. [image: Maps Of India]

17-Mar-15 Malaysian hospital operator IHH Healthcare announced that subsidiary Parkway Life Real Estate Investment Trust is acquiring five nursing homes in Japan for 5.97 billion yen (USD49.5 million). The five facilities are being acquired from Japan's UBI. [image: Singapore Trading Online]