15-Sep-15 Five ASEAN private hospital associations have endorsed the “Yangon Declaration” in a bid to enhance cooperation and jointly develop medical service standards in the region. The associations from Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam reached an agreement to deepen cooperation during the Hospital Management Asia (HMA) 2015 held in Yangon. [image: Myanmar Business Times / TPHA]

14-Sep-15 In the next decade, the Philippines healthcare information management services (HIMS) sector targets to quintuple its revenues from US$1.3 billion last year to US$9.8 billion in 2020. The HIMS sector is transforming fast due to changes in the healthcare environment where patients now demand for more participation in their care management programs. [image: HIMS Conference]

27-Aug-15 Healthcare information management services (HIMS), one of the fastest growing BPO sectors in the Philippines, is targeted to grow by 25% to $5.9 billion by 2020. For 2015 healthcare BPO is expected to hit $1.7 billion, up from $1.3 billion in 2014. HIMS BPO is now the third largest segment in the contact center industry. [image: HIMS Conference]

18-Aug-15 The Philippines government has completed the construction and expansion of 68 health facilities in Central Luzon. 32 of the facilities are located in Bulacan; 15 in Pampanga; 2 each in Aurora, Tarlac, and Zambales; and 1 each in Bataan and Nueva Ecija. The program is intended to revitalize primary health care and upgrade hospitals to decongest end-referral hospitals. [image: Hospital Directory Asia]

17-Aug-15 Kalusugang Pangkalahatan or Universal Health Care is the current thrust of the Aquino Administration, aimed to bridge the inequality gap and reduce barriers to health care, reduce social exclusion and work towards universal coverage of delivering health services to Filipinos. The strategy aims to improve health outcomes especially in 43 priority provinces. [image: GOVPH]