Demonstrating benefits to patients and clinicians will greatly drive interoperability, health information exchange and medical record digitalisation in Asia-Pacific.Dr Mahesh Appannan, Ministry of Health Malaysia’s head of digital health, Seyoung Jung, assistant professor and CIO of Seoul National…
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CareClinics, a private clinic group in Malaysia, has signed an agreement with HIMSS to advance its digital transformation.Founded in 2003, the company operates a network of over 100 primary care clinics in the country.
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A system breakdown of the Total Hospital Information System used in the northern state of Kedah in Malaysia forced clinicians to go manual for at least a day.On 11 August, the tHIS went down…
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A system breakdown of the Total Hospital Information System used in the northern state of Kedah in Malaysia forced clinicians to go manual for at least a day.On 11 August, the tHIS went down…
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Heriot-Watt University is focusing on accelerating health tech research and development, through a partnership with the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI).The two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see…
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A new private collaboration in Malaysia aims to equip rural clinics with telehealth capabilities over the next two years.Rural broadband service provider MEASAT and local health IT company Mudah Healthtech have signed a memorandum of…
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Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud.IHH Singapore’s core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse,…
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Adopting a collaborative model of care is one approach that can help temper the rising cost of healthcare globally. Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building…
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Sri Lanka now has a connected ambulance that is powered by AI and mixed reality.Its national emergency ambulance service, 1990 Suwa Seriya, has recently partnered with health technology provider Mediwave from Singapore to integrate…
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Hospitals around Southeast Asia are upping the ante in their digital transformation as executives look to raise their technology spending in the coming years.FINDINGS
Global management consultant L.E.K. Consulting recently conducted a survey involving 230…
