Scaling Digital Health Innovation in Asia
Singapore is an attractive regional hub in Asia for the innovation, test bedding and commercialization of digital health innovations. The island nation boasts a significant number of multinational corporations with their regional headquarters based in Singapore, a thriving startup ecosystem, and robust …
5th Session of the Fintech for Health Special Interest Group held
“Sixty-three percent of the India’s total health expenditure is paid out-of-pocket as compared to the world average of just 18.2%. Fintech for Health can lessen this disparity” ACCESS Health hosted the fifth session of the virtual Fintech for Health Special Interest Group …
ACCESS Health Southeast Asia launches report: “Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific”
ACCESS Health Southeast Asia is excited to announce the publication of their report, “Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific,” in partnership with the AWS Institute. Rapid digitalization during the pandemic has brought about remarkable advances in healthcare …
“Dialogue, Data, and Partnerships”: Towards Universal Health Coverage in Uttar Pradesh
Sangeeta Singh, Chief Executive Officer, State Agency for Comprehensive Health and Integrated Services (SACHIS) has steered the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PM-JAY) in the largest state of India. Priyamvada Kowshik, Journalist Health & Wellness, in conversation with Sangeeta Singh …
ACCESS Health Digital: The Healthcare Innovation Journey
Ayushman Bharat or PMJAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana), is India’s national public health insurance fund of the Government of India that aims to provide free access to health insurance coverage for low-income earners. Across the country, innovators are developing solutions that …
ACCESS Health Digital Academy: Developing “Peopleware”
Training a world class health informatics workforce for India Recognizing the growing need for trained professionals in the digital health space, ACCESS Health Digital recently launched the ACCESS Health Digital Academy: DIGITAL HEALTH 101, which will work towards building capacity in this …
InOrder Institute and Chitkara University partner to create a Health Informatics course for the MBA Healthcare program
The InOrder Institute for Health Systems Strengthening and Chitakara University are working together to introduce a Health informatics course for the MBA Healthcare program of Chitkara University. The eight-week course will be will commence in March 2021. The course is designed to cover practical …
Vietnam’s Growing Fintech Industry: The Opportunities for Meaningful Partnerships with Healthcare
Vietnam has been successful in achieving a Universal Health Coverage index of 73, through its social security system. However, about 41% of healthcare payments are out-of-pocket expenses. Studies have indicated that about a third of the lower-income population borrow money from unofficial …
Achieving Universal Health Coverage in the Philippines Through Digital Technology
Together with Cisco, ACCESS Health hosted a roundtable discussion on harnessing digital health for achieving universal health care (UHC) on 18 January 2021. Participants from government ministries handling health and/or technology, private sector developers of eHealth solutions, and academics working in this …
ACCESS Health Southeast: A Look Back On 2020 And Look Ahead To 2021
2020 was a year of adapting, learning, and refining for the Southeast Asia office. With our unique regional perspective, we spent the year showing how the tenet we’ve touted – resilient, digitally enabled, affordable healthcare – is indeed the key to outlasting …
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