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Singapore emerges as best country in personalised healthcare in APAC
Singapore emerges as best country in personalised healthcare in APAC
The transition to personalised healthcare is gaining momentum across most of Asia Pacific.
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.
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