25-Jun-16 A project to create an intelligent health system for Ho Chi Minh City will be submitted to the People’s Committee in Jul-16. The city Department of Health is working to establish a common data centre for health by 2017. A study at 92 hospitals, 24 preventive health centres and 319 other centres found a shortage of computers at district level. [image: Viet Nam News]

11-May-16 In what could be one of Singapore's biggest IPOs in more than a year, managed healthcare provider Fullerton Health is said to be seeking to raise some SGD300 mn. The group - which owns 200 clinics and facilities - is understood to have a capitalisation of SGD1.5 bn, making it the third largest healthcare outfit after IHH and Raffles. [image: Bloomberg]

21-Jun-16 Most hospitals in Vietnam have failed to access information technology effectively as they don’t have appropriate software to satisfy their demands. Information technology is mainly applied at provincial and central level hospitals, resulting in independent databases, inopportune software upgrades and mistakes in handling health insurance payments. [image: Vietnam +]

15-Jun-16 The Director of the National Hospital of Geriatrics in Vietnam says there are about 10 million senior citizens aged 60 and up, accounting for over 10% of the population. He added that healthcare facilities for aging people fail to meet the demand, particularly as the number of senior citizens is expected to increase to about 21 million by 2035. [image: VietnamNet Bridge]

13-Jun-16 In 2012, SGD4.7 billion was spent on healthcare in Singapore. Fast-forward to 2016, spending on healthcare is budgeted at SGD11 billion. Singapore’s medical spending growth is five times more than the general inflation rate. This is a worrying statistic. The financial burden on both the individual and family will be immense. [image: Aon Hewitt / Yahoo!]