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Skilled staff and professionals are still the backbone.

There were fewer foreign patients in Q3.

Expect more acquisitions in 2016.

In today’s highly digitised world, keeping up is not enough for healthcare firms to remain relevant.

Find out what it is about.

Is it time to flock to untapped markets?

The rise in chronic diseases is boosting the need for more services.

Here are the five unsung heroes of the digital healthcare revolution.

If there was ever a good year to be sick, it would be 2015, as public and private entities are injecting renewed vigour into the Asia-Pacific region’s healthcare scene. Experts are predicting that the industry will continue on an upwards trajectory, spearheaded by innovations in primary care and hospital services.

They can breeze through the economic slowdown.

Find out what HIMSSAsiaPac15 has in store.

While Asia’s health industry must address a host of vital issues, analysts agree hospital coffers need the most attention.

Gone are the days when only a few individuals, mostly the well-to-do, could afford decent medical insurance coverage.

With the rise of chronic diseases and an increasing elderly population in Singapore, the island’s residents are shifting their medical spending strategy towards early disease detection instead of reactive treatment. This bodes well for advanced diagnostic imaging services, which have seen increased demand. These allow Singaporeans to detect a disease before it progresses into the later, deadlier, stages with higher costs.

The government of the world’s third-biggest democracy takes on the formidable task of providing healthcare for every Indonesian. How do you solve a problem like covering healthcare for more than 250 million people? For a country as huge as Indonesia, the solution lies in an ambitious program that aims to introduce universal health care coverage by 2019. Fresh from electing President Joko Widodo in the recent national elections, Indonesia is now focusing on making healthcare a priority on the government’s development agenda. This task, however, comes with a number of challenges and opportunities that require a look at the archipelago’s changing market and political landscape.

You trust you’re in good hands when you are in a hospital for treatment. But what happens when hospitals turn out to be dangerous places due to medical errors, resulting in what people in the medical community call “adverse events” (AEs)?