Tagged with EALTH

Malaysia Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, director general of health at the Ministry of Health of Malaysia unveils the government’s plan to bring healthcare back to the community, and create a culture based around a healthy lifestyle. Dr  Hisham also discusses the future potential for digitalization within the Malaysian healthcare apparatus.…

Spain Fernando Prados Roa, deputy minister of health for Madrid, discusses the health paradigm of the community and elaborates on the role of SERMAS in managing and coordinating the city’s public healthcare system.   What sets us apart in healthcare is our professionals Could you begin by introducing SERMAS – the…

Malaysia Dr. Azrul Mohd Khalib, chief executive at the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy, gives an insight on the current important issues the Malaysian healthcare ecosystem is facing and the different solutions and strategies the Galen Centre, as a thinktank for health and social issues, has identified for the…

South Korea South Korea’s proposed Moon Jae-In Care has been subject to both praise and protest this year. President Moon Jae-in’s plan dubbed “Moon Care” will be implemented in stages throughout 2022 and pledges to expand healthcare coverage to cover 70 percent of the people’s costs. Korea currently runs on a health…

Innovation Joonho J. Lee is a CEO and CoFounder of Cognita Lab INC developing risk management framework around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and financial services industries. Here he discusses the use of blockchain in the healthcare industry and the need to remain “cautiously optimistic.”   Many people asked whether I…

France Cancer is the leading cause of death in France, accounting for 28.5% of all deaths in 2014, followed by cardiovascular diseases, which accounted for 25%. However, there are gender differences: 33% of all deaths among men were related to cancer, while this proportion was lower among women (24%). Cardiovascular diseases…

Digital Health Rhenu Bhuller, a founding member of Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific operations and expert in analysing the impact of cutting-edge tech, looks at pharma’s evolution and adoption of digital health.   The evolution of disease management and the convergence of drugs, devices and digital health in the management of various…

Innovation Meghann Chilcott, Senior Vice President of OrderInsite, looks at how new technology is being applied to improve accuracy and efficiency in pharmacy accounting. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services put the cost of billing and payment errors in 2017 at $36.21 billion. Pharmacy accounting and bookkeeping is a challenging necessity.…

Innovation Carla Smith, Executive Vice President of The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) discusses the need to adopt innovation and retrain the workforce to provide healthcare without walls. If we are short-sighted and base our future workforce projections upon outdated models, we will experience a significant shortage in the…

Korea Olive Healthcare is a startup developing wellness and medical devices services for the quantitative measurement of body composition, an integral part of the new healthcare paradigm based on prevention. Here, Dr. Sung-Ho Han, its CEO and founder together with Andrew Son, chief strategy officer, sheds light on the first two…

Innovation Buck Dossey, an expert in digital marketing and audience manager at Adobe, discusses consumer needs in healthcare and the importance of adopting a digital health strategy.  Joining the digital transformation race today means that many companies will have to transform to become digitally agile.  While the topic of digital transformation permeates…

Spain One of the unique aspects of the system is the fragmentation linked to the country’s 17 autonomous regions The Spanish healthcare system performance is ranked as 7th in the world by the World Health Organization (WHO), beating countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States. Additionally,…