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China, HK, Macau
NextLevel Pharma’s Speaker Series: Sue Caleo-Naeyaert
As part of the upcoming NextLevel Pharma “Market Access in Key Asian Markets” event, the organizers have graciously connected AsiaHealthcareBlog with several of the industry experts who will be presenting and participating in panel discussions during the May 2012 event. The first up in this series is Sue Caleo-Naeyaert, the Regional Pricing and Market Access [...]
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What To Watch for During 2012 in China’s Eldercare Market
As 2012 gets off to a start, eldercare operators with an interest in accessing the China market are paying close attention to what many believe are a handful of key issues that will define how the market evolves in the coming years. Each of the individual questions that remain to be answered are subordinate to [...]
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US Hospitals Continue to Explore Ways to Work with China
Across the United States, hospital executives are eagerly seeking out ways they can tap into the lucrative China market. As we shared in late 2011, the prestigious Wharton Business School published an article which suggests that the opportunity for western expansion into the Chinese hospital market may finally be opening; however, the shifting sands that [...]
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NextLevel Pharma Event
If you are active in the Asian pharma, medical device or general bio-sciences markets, make a point of visiting the NextLevel Pharma site to learn more about their upcoming “Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Market Access in Key Asian Markets”. The panels look extremely interesting, and the panelists who will be leading and participating in the [...]
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Bag of Links – the pace of change is speeding up
The best links about healthcare investment and public health in Asia from around the web.
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OneMedPlace – China Forum
Posted January 3, 2012 by
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking with Brett Johnson, President and Executive Editor of OneMedPlace, one of the world’s leading organizations connecting healthcare investors, entrepreneurs and subject matter experts. The purpose of our call was to discuss their upcoming China Forum II, being held in San Francisco on Monday, January 9th. Split into [...]
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Great. Breathing Air in Beijing Bad for Your Heart Also?
Posted December 16, 2011 by
As a quick follow-up to last week’s blog post about how breathing the air in Beijing might be bad for your health, I wanted to point readers to the Bloomberg story this week that the air quality in Beijing might also be creating cardiac problems as well as the aforementioned respiratory issues most people immediately [...]
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EVENT: Screening of “Restoring the Light” on Dec. 17
Posted December 16, 2011 by James Flanagan
Just a reminder about this Saturday’s screening of Restoring the Light at the Hutong. The event is free, and after the screening, filmmaker Carol Liu and Stanford economist Scott Rozelle will be available for Q&A. Hope to see you there! Beijing Healthcare Forum is proud to present: A Screening of Restoring the Light (see trailer) A documentary by Carol Liu Date: Saturday, Dec. 17 Location: The [...]
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Warning: Breathing the Air in Beijing May be Hazardous to Your Health
Posted December 9, 2011 by
This week saw the blogosphere explode over how bad the air in Beijing has become. Now, in fairness, the air in Beijing specifically (and China generally) has been awful for a long time. If you grew up somewhere with high humidity you can appreciate that certain times of year you feel as if the air [...]
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Controlling cancer in central China: 200,000 cervical cancer screenings in 180 days
Posted December 4, 2011 by Lan Wang
In the past few months, I’ve been working with a medical device company in Hubei on a cervical cancer screening project in the province’s rural regions. This project is part of the central government’s efforts to provide equitable healthcare access to rural areas with a three-year cervical cancer screening campaign for underprivileged women. By the end of 2011, 10 million women from [...]
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Home Healthcare in China
Posted December 1, 2011 by
What makes China compelling? Sure, it’s a huge and largely untapped market. But what I’ve always found most compelling about China is its potential to leapfrog the status-quo and create something new, to unwittingly break paradigms if for no other reason than not knowing how it approaches a problem isn’t the conventional way to solve [...]
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Healthspace.Asia: Social Network and Jobs Listing for Asia Health Professionals
Posted November 29, 2011 by Damjan Denoble
HealthSpace.Asia is a social networking site for health professionals working in Asia: This is a collaborative research and policy development platform for inclusive health development in Asia. We work to foster collaborative actions among existing networks, policy makers and researchers with interest in health policy and research. Please feel free to participate in our online [...]