APAC

RFDS launches Oracle cloud powered aeromedical EHR to enhance rural healthcare 

19 September 2023

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), Australia’s rural and remote health services provider, has launched a new nationwide Aeromedical Electronic Health Record (EHR) powered by Oracle Autonomous Database, running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...

Wearable devices to study sleep disorders in Japan 

13 March 2023

Aculys Pharma, a company focused on the development and commercialisation of new innovative drugs in the fields of neurology and psychiatry, and Four H, a Japan-based company specialising in health technology, have announced an exploratory research...

Unlocking the potential of pain management 

14 February 2023

InterSystems IRIS for Health accelerates PainChek’s global expansion into the hospital sector and capacity to integrate with electronic medical record systems, including InterSystems TrakCare and future FHIR-based home care systems. Philip Daffas, CEO...

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University launch project to realise data portability

25 January 2023

Fujitsu and Sapporo Medical University have announced the launch of a project starting in April 2023 to realise data portability for patients’ healthcare data including electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs). As part of...

Stefanie Oakes, General Manager – Asia Pacific Services, Honeywell Building Technologies

28 November 2022

Stefanie Oakes, General Manager – Asia Pacific Services, Honeywell Building Technologies, speaks to us about her management philosophy, investments in healthcare and her go-to productivity trick.  What would you describe as your most memorable...

Icon brings quality cancer care to global patients with Macquarie Cloud Services

14 November 2022

Macquarie Cloud Services has signed a deal with one of Australia’s largest comprehensive cancer care providers, Icon Group, to manage its platforms through a Microsoft Azure environment. Icon’s Head of IT Infrastructure, Mark Holmes, tells us...

Medcart achieves AU$10 million in sales with innovative online marketplace

15 June 2022

Marketplacer, a global technology platform that enables brands, retailers, suppliers, communities and innovators to easily build and grow successful online marketplaces at scale, has announced it has enabled Australian health and medical start-up,...

NUHS Singapore operationalizes AI to transform healthcare

9 May 2022

National University Health System (NUHS), a leading academic health system in Singapore that attends to more than one million patients each year, has deployed TIBCO AI solutions to improve healthcare practices and outcomes, enabling clinical practitioners...

APAC start-ups see the pandemic as an enabler for innovation 

7 April 2022

Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, has held its first hybrid conference, Medtronic Open Innovation Conference (MAIC 2022), in Singapore, themed ‘Accelerating Healthcare Technology Innovation’.   Aimed at discussing...

Why has healthcare become a target for cybercriminals?

16 February 2022

Intelligent CIO spoke to Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Japan at Rubrik, to find out more about cybersecurity threats to the healthcare sector. Healthcare is tasked with the massive responsibility of looking after...

Why cybersecurity consulting should be boring and collaborative like public health

11 December 2020

Nick Ellsmore, Director of Consulting and Professional Services (Pacific) at Trustwave, tells us that while state-sponsored cyberattacks get the headlines, there is plenty of pragmatic work that can be done to address the 99% of attacks that...

Survey reveals post-COVID economic health dependent on delivering better customer experiences

2 November 2020

Australian companies need to urgently improve the digital experiences they offer to customers if they’re to succeed in a post COVID-19 world, according to a new report from Sitecore entitled The Digital Mindset of Business Leaders in Asia Pacific....