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India needs to invest in resilient healthcare information infrastructure: report

Risk communication emerged as the weakest link during the pandemic.

India needs to invest in resilient healthcare information infrastructure: report

Risk communication emerged as the weakest link during the pandemic.

Are India's underfunded hospitals equipped to deal with the pandemic?

The country is unable to raise healthcare expenditure by more than 3.8% of GDP, compared to the APAC average of 6.64%.

Fujitsu, Tokyo Shinagawa to develop AI-supported diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia

The system is expected to deliver early detection of cases, even when the probablity of infection is low.

COVID-19 jumpstarts Indonesia's telehealth industry

The government has quickly made digital health platforms available to address the pandemic.

Telemedicine on the rise in South Korea despite legal barriers

COVID-19 has forced the government to speed up the regulatort infrastructure around telemedicine initiatives.

Singapore researchers develop new COVID-19 test method

The method will speed up the testing procedure by up to four times.

Almost 70% of rare disease patients receiving poor medical attention

Funding for testing and treatment, among others, was cited as the reason behind the inefficiencies across Asia-Pacific.

Check out HKU's remote COVID-19 disease surveillance programme

The data collected through the program could be used to identify patterns for facilitating early detection of the disease.

Asia Pacific to ramp up investment on healthcare capacity

Even markets with better capacity faced issues such as manpower shortage.

Bigger healthcare spending in the cards for China

The country saw overwhelmed hospitals and disrupted routine services amidst the pandemic.

Telemedicine platform activity surges across Asia Pacific

It has been receiving government support as a way to control the spread of the pandemic.

Travel restrictions spur online healthcare services in China

Priorly, less than a quarter of the population had used telemedicine.

Asia-Pacific healthtech funding plunged 56% to $703m in Q1

Half of the clusters that outperformed the ecosystem were relevant to addressing COVID-19.

China's healthcare spending tipped to grow 12.6% to $926.8b in 2020

The government is expected to account for the majority of the spending.

APAC healthcare deal value dropped 29% to $11.5b in 2019

The total deal size in Southeast Asia surged to $2.4b.

Asia Pacific's medical inflation to hit 7.1% in 2020

Overuse of care by medical practitioners is one of the factors driving up costs.

China's API supply disruption worries pharma companies

A bulk of drug intermediates are sourced from China.