07-Feb-16 India's top private hospitals, seizing on a shortage of critical-care doctors, are expanding into the remote management of intensive care units around the country, and in neighbouring Bangladesh. Data from the Indian Medical Association show the country needs more than 50,000 critical care specialists, but has just 8,350. [image: Thomson Reuters]

08-Feb-16 Apollo Hospitals has short-listed three private equity firms and expects to close a deal to raise INR500 crore (USD73 mn) by March to fuel its expansion plans. While Apollo Diagnostics already has 15 labs and more than 80 patient care centres, it plans to launch 200 labs and 1,000 patient care centres over five years in tier 2 cities. [image: G Ramakrishna]

04-Feb-16 SThe US and Europe are the traditional leaders in medtech, but others are hot on their heels. China's market is expected to grow at 7.4% until 2019. Medtech companies in Mexico save 19% on manufacturing costs compared with the US. Turkey's industry is expected to grow at 8.5% until 2018, and Malaysia supplies 80% of the world market for catheters. [image: MD+DI]

18-Jan-16 As the healthcare industry considers the possibilities - and challenges - of the year ahead, here's a look back at 12 notable Healthcare growth markets stories from 2015 you may have missed, month-by-month, including "China’s physicians encouraged to take up second jobs", "Vietnam achieves healthcare Millennium Development Goals", "World's biggest healthcare facility financed in Turkey" and more.

20-Jan-16 Just a few years back, India’s healthcare sector was under-penetrated in terms of technology adoption and was lagging behind other industry verticals. However, the scenario is changing gradually. Healthcare providers in India are expected to have spent USD1.2 bn on IT products and services in 2015, an increase of 7% over 2014. [image: Dataquest]