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Apollo Hospitals launches immersive mixed reality programme
By Adam Ang | 02:16 am | March 10, 2022
It shows the inner workings of a patient's heart and the impact of their risk factors for heart disease.
Exterior shot of the KU Anam building.
KU Anam Hospital ranks among top health systems globally in HIMSS Digital Health Indicator
By Lynne Minion | 09:47 pm | March 06, 2022
The hospital has achieved a score of 308/400.
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Researchers to facilitate telemedicine for managing chronic illnesses in rural Pakistan
By Adam Ang | 05:14 am | March 03, 2022
New technologies will be deployed to enable doctors in Karachi to see patients in rural communities via video.
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Government-level value-based care report highlights challenges and lessons for APAC
By Thiru Gunasegaran | 04:20 am | March 03, 2022
Representatives of governments and regional health authorities from nine APAC countries discussed the shift toward patient-centric, value-based care.
A photo taken during the signing ceremony to cement the collaboration.
SingHealth, NSCC and NVIDIA team up for 'large-scale and complex' healthcare research
By Thiru Gunasegaran | 06:35 am | March 02, 2022
A new supercomputer will support research at Singapore's largest public healthcare cluster.
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NUH, St Luke's Hospital and Alexandra Hospital to implement next-gen EMR
By Adam Ang | 04:36 am | February 23, 2022
The NGEMR platform records the entire patient journey from the point of admission to discharge.
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Adopting cloud-first policy, upskilling among ways to further cloud adoption in APAC: report
By Adam Ang | 12:50 am | February 22, 2022
A report published yesterday by AWS Institute and ACCESS Health identifies the enablers and barriers to cloud adoption in the region.
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Siriraj Hospital renews digital partnership with DB Results
By Adam Ang | 02:29 am | February 18, 2022
They first partnered in 2020 to jointly develop hospital applications.
A patient holding prescription medicine in an online consultation with a doctor
Roundup: Indonesia eyes protection for telemedicine users, and more
By Adam Ang | 02:26 am | February 18, 2022
Also, Solve.Care has appointed a neurosurgeon to lead its headquarters in South Korea.
How a Thai hospital bounced back from a dip in international business
By Piers Ford | 09:53 pm | February 17, 2022
This HIMSS APAC CEO Summit speaker shares how Bumrungrad International Hospital responded to COVID-19 to deliver an exceptional experience for its domestic patients.