Healthcare
Australian firms hit gold in China's US$581b aged-care market
                                                                                 
                    
                    
  The number of nursing homes has more than tripled.
                
                                
            Australian firms hit gold in China's US$581b aged-care market
                                                                                                                 
                            
                            
  The number of nursing homes has more than tripled.
                        
                                                
                        
    
                    Drug makers face revenue cuts as healthcare spending drops
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  But private consumption will stay strong.
                    
                                        
                    
                Thai universal healthcare policy under threat as more budget cuts loom
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Reforms may not materialise, analysts warn.
                    
                                        
                    
                Hong Kong's sickly public healthcare system reaches breaking point
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Despite accounting for 90% of the city’s patients, public hospitals only employ 40% of the SAR’s doctors.
                    
                                        
                    
                Raffles Medical links IncomeShield policyholders to over 200 private specialists
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Policyholders can now book an appointment in NTUC Income’s website.
                    
                                        
                    
                Singaporeans' stolen SingHealth data exposed to identity and tax fraud
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  The SingHealth cyberattack affected over 1.5 million Singaporeans, specifically 160,000 patients.
                    
                                        
                    
                Air pollution in West Hong Kong is still in the red
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Ozone (O3) levels have hit their highest point in the twenty years.
                    
                                        
                    
                Rapidly growing costs stunt Thailand's healthcare goals
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Epidemiological changes, healthcare spending, and lack of integration persist.
                    
                                        
                    
                Hong Kong's labour crunch hits children's hospital launch
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  It will only get worse, lawmakers warn.
                    
                                        
                    
                Singapore's Fullerton Health unveils fully digitised operations
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  It aims to be 100% on the cloud within 3 months.
                    
                                        
                    
                Upgrading IT services top priority of healthcare leaders: survey
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Better data leads to improved care, respondents say.
                    
                                        
                    
                Chinese tourists flood Hong Kong for overpriced HPV vaccine
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Supply is running out fast.
                    
                                        
                    
                Taiwan's largest hospitals team up to target SE Asian markets
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  The union will focus on six countries.
                    
                                        
                    
                China turns to “internet hospitals” as healthcare demand shoots up
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Tech startups are the biggest winners.
                    
                                        
                    
                Malaysian private hospitals' profits to surge as tax cuts roll in
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Healthcare spending will jump by 12.4%.
                    
                                        
                    
                Cambodia's universal healthcare programme crippled by lack of funds
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  The country cannot rely on foreign aid nor its national revenues to sustain the programme.
                    
                                        
                    
                Hong Kong medical inflation to hit 8.4% in 2018
                                                                                                 
                        
                        
  Diagnostics for cancer-related illnesses are pushing costs up.