Leveraging Fintech to Expand Digital Health in Indonesia, The Phillipines and Singapore
This report examines the role of digital technologies in finance and health care that together can create a “Fintech for Health” approach. This can enable access to healthcare financing, information, and services, and overall operational efficiencies for health systems. A Fintech for …
Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific (Korean version)
The COVID-19 pandemic completely catalysed how the healthcare industry uses technology. Healthcare organizations turned to the cloud to quickly adapt to the pandemic’s disruption, driving innovation in telemedicine, digital health, medical research, and clinical care. New technologies that had previously taken years …
Overcoming Barriers to Cloud Adoption in Public Healthcare in Asia Pacific
The COVID-19 pandemic completely catalysed how the healthcare industry uses technology. Healthcare organizations turned to the cloud to quickly adapt to the pandemic’s disruption, driving innovation in telemedicine, digital health, medical research, and clinical care. New technologies that had previously taken years …
Strengthening Universal Health Coverage in Asia: Opportunities for Innovation in Private Health Insurance
By deliberately shaping and incentivizing new models of private health insurance, countries have a new tool in UHC strategy to bring high quality healthcare to the masses so that people receive the healthcare they need without facing financial hardship. The advances in …
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 …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume I-V
Nearly a year and a half from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world is still struggling to contain this viral threat. Will the 2021 surge in new cases continue throughout the year? What effect will our vaccines have? Will …
Reducing The Risk Of In Flight COVID-19 Transmission
All of us fly. Last year, more than 1.5 billion people took to the air. Flying both short and long distances has become a way of life not just for the privileged, but for the many. We always knew air travel was …
We Need To Crush The Curve Now—Or COVID-19 Will Come Back To Haunt Us
In a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19, communities across the United States have taken action to “flatten the curve.” The curve in question represents the number of people predicted to contract the novel coronavirus over time, while attempts to flatten …
A Troubling Tale of Two Children in the Time of COVID-19
This week, I heard a disconcerting story from a friend of a friend in Boston who was diagnosed with Covid-19. She is just a teenager, but one who has suffered since early childhood from chronic asthma. Just over a week ago, she …
Calm In the Face of Potential SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Reflections on Covid
A few days ago, I posted an interview with a friend who was moved to controlled quarantine in China. Today, I wanted to share a story from an American colleague who was just released from a mandatory quarantine in Singapore. Both stories highlight the …
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