18 November 2008 | News

Better healthcare for rural Vietnam

Vietnam’s south central coast region, home to nine million people, including half a million people from ethnic minorities, will have the financing of Asian Development Bank for a project to improve healthcare services.

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17 November 2008 | News

Indian doctors get remote access to patient records

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Mohali, has developed an internet-based software solution, e-Sanjeevani, to provide an interface between doctors and patients.

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14 November 2008 | News

Health Informatics user community launched

The Committee of Healthcare Informatics User for Asia was officially launched in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

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12 November 2008 | News

SMS for the nearest healthcare facility in India

If you happen to be anywhere in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, emergency relief is just an SMS away.

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30 October 2008 | Feature

One step closer to the omniscient clinician

Clinical intelligence solutions, followed by patient-centric and diagnosis-related ones, are expected to be the next major trend in clinical decision support tools. Analysis: Christine Chang, healthcare technology analyst with Datamonitor.

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30 October 2008 | News

Singapore adopts standard terminology for EMR

Singapore is adopting a systemically organised collection of medical terminology for Electronic Medical Records to improve quality, safety of care and enhanced care coordination.

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23 October 2008 | Feature

Medics on the move: enterprise mobility in Asia's hospitals

Jianggan Li speaks to those who are on the forefront of providing best tools to clinicians at the bedside

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16 October 2008 | News

Standards & interoperability priority for Health IT execs

A new survey on using HIT systems to support care management interventions highlights the need for many HIT applications to offer more functionality, standardisation and interoperability to optimise clinical and financial outcomes for patients.

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15 October 2008 | News

Shenzhen hospitals to implement medical information systems

Three hospitals in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have signed a US$2.2 million contract to build digital hospital and medical information systems.

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13 October 2008 | News

New Australian hospital acquires SOA-based IT system

Macquarie University Private Hospital, a new modern hospital due to be open in the latter half of 2009, has inked a deal worth up to A$7.6 million (US$ five million) for a range of advanced healthcare IT applications.

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10 October 2008 | News

Indian hospital network’s EMR to be ready this month

The initial Rs50 million (US$ one million) EMR system by Apollo Hospitals Group (AHG) will accomplish its dry run in October, revealed Sangita Reddy, AHG’s Executive Director.

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25 September 2008 | News

Healthcare IT ‘specialised’

Small and far away from major markets, New Zealand has traditionally been ‘underserved’ by international healthcare IT vendors, according to Grant McPherson, Regional Director South/South East Asia at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE).

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5 September 2008 | Interview

An Australian quest for e-health

Rather than focusing solely on technology, Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing addresses some important issues concerning change management in health and the role of governments in driving e-health development.

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3 February 2008 | Interview

Leading the way in healthcare IT

Alan Payne, Chief Information Officer of health solutions provider Healthe, explains how IT is transforming Australia’s largest private hospital network.

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24 September 2007 | News

Best broadband in the world

Japan has the world’s fastest broadband connection

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21 August 2007 | News

Australians' medicare records to go online

Abbott told a health conference in Sydney that electronic records help to streamline care for patients, from a range of health professionals.

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20 August 2007 | News

Web access guidelines to aid disabled in Thailand

NECTEC in Thailand has implemented Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as an official guide to web content developers.

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10 August 2007 | News

UK’s MoD to give soldiers electronic health records

£80 million programme to make medical records available on the battlefield.

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30 July 2007 | News

E-patient records in the United Kingdom

A long term contract was issued to improve health and social care services in Guernsey, the British crown dependency.

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25 July 2007 | Feature

Putting a doctor in every village

Krishnan Ganapathy reveals how videoconferencing proved to be a cost-effective bridge between urban healthcare resources and rural patients in India. Professor Krishnan Ganapathy is the Head of Telemedicine for Apollo Hospitals and Honorary Advisor to the Armed Forces Medical Services of India.

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12 June 2007 | Interview

Accessing Chinese patient records on the move

Qiao Kai, Chief Technical Officer of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, shares his experience in building and managing workflow using mobile devices.

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1 May 2007 | Interview

Delivering the largest healthcare IT service

Richard Granger, Director General of IT for the National Health Service in England, talks about recent developments in Britain’s healthcare technology.

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