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

11-Mar-15 Thailand's Ministry of Public Health is setting up “Health Zones” in a reform of the country's health mechanisms aimed to reduce disparity and provide greater access. Each zone has a committee to manage finance, workforce and other resources, and to link together local health services, from primary care to highly specialized care in various local facilities. [image: The Nation]

12-Feb-15 Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has established an agreement with the Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Hat Yai on improving medical education to help solve shortages of healthcare professionals in rural areas. For example, Year 4-6 medical students will gain experience in community hospitals. The program will be extended to other hospitals of >90 beds. [image: NNT)

21-Jan-15 The Jakarta Health Agency is to build a 30-storey cancer treatment hospital in West Jakarta, with doors expected to open in 2017. It will also choose three doctors and two nurses from each of 10 hospitals in Jakarta to receive palliative care training from Singaporean doctors. [image: Care Bright]

20-Jan-15 In India, there is a need for healthcare providers and policy-makers to generate reliable data on basic healthcare indicators. As yet there has been no fool-proof epidemiological study of every aspect of health. Parameters need to be tracked for another decade to produce data that can be relied upon. [image: The Hindu]