20-Sep-14 The member nations of ASEAN have pledged to strengthen primary healthcare in order to achieve universal health coverage and increase access to primary care for their people, prevent and control non-communicable diseases and newly-emerging infectious diseases, and to set up a sustainable and effective health financing system. [image: Gunawan Kartapranata]

18-Sep-14 The provincial government of Sichuan is constructing 10 new hospitals with an integrated telemedicine system that aims to promote resource sharing between hospitals. This is part of an initiative from the central government announced in August, requiring local government to include telemedicine services in their planning and to provide capital support.

18-Sep-14 Indonesia’s Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi has highlighted three priorities for the country’s healthcare system: Equitable access to health services for people in rural and remote island areas; improved access to primary health care; and an improved referral system. 

15-Sep-14 In Thailand, private hospitals have become a platform for change, attracting increasing numbers of foreign patients, with medical tourists from China becoming a major focus.

15-Sep-14 Qatar aims to subdue healthcare cost inflation through a combination of its national health insurance scheme, sophisticated information systems and Health Technology Assessments.