27-Sep-17 Vietnam is among the countries with the fastest aging population rate, and major health providers including HCMC Public Health Association are promoting remote health monitoring and telehealth services to address the issue. [image: Hoàng Nam]

27-Sep-17 KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom) announced it will enter Kazakhstan’s digital healthcare market and plans to develop the overseas digital healthcare market aggressively in the future, and market its mobile diagnostic solutions. [image: Business Korea]

20-Sep-17 KT Chairman Hwang Chang-kyu urges the use of big data to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, saying "telecommunication companies' assets such as connectivity and big-data have great force that can solve common problems such as infectious diseases." [image: Business Korea]

15-Sep-17 Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired a 10% stake in mattress maker Airweave for USD11 mn. It hopes to use Airweave's customer sleep data to develop products and services bespoke to the health needs of individual customers. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

14-Sep-17 In developing countries mental health services can be de-prioritised. But e-solutions are being introduced such as Taskeen.org in Pakistan, virtually connecting licensed psychologists with mental health patients or India's HealthEminds, offering the services of trained and licensed counselors online. [image: MHIN]