In Focus

The State Medical Insurance Administration is set to roll out its new NRDL and price negotiation list in June.

Malaysia offers more competitive surgery costs with a heart bypass costing just US$14,000 compared to US$23,000 in Singapore.

The government aims to have more seniors receive elderly care at their homes.

Predictive and personalised patient monitoring systems can cut down mortality rates by close to 25%.

This will have repercussions with the private hospitals depending on early release of reimbursement claims or number of denials of payments.

Hospital-based care accounted for total health expenditure of $9.57b in 2018.

Firms lose over $23.3m to cybercriminals.

Struggling families face bankruptcy to cover costs.

This includes pharmaceutical firm Takeda’s $58b acquisition of Ireland’s drug company Shire.

This includes pharmaceutical firm Takeda’s $58b acquisition of Ireland’s drug company Shire.

Malaysia and Thailand offer more cost-competitive alternatives.

Many private-public partnerships are still not designed to help the masses, only niche segments.

It eyes to employ AI and robots at long-term care facilities to help caregivers.

Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines could witness over 10% increases.

Total healthcare spending will surge to US$2.27t by 2026.

With a depth of expertise consisting of over 240 super-specialised experts, University Malaya Specialist Centre takes its congregation of wide-ranged specialties to the forefront of healthcare in Malaysia.