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This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. Led by Chinese Internet commerce giants Tencent and Alibaba, internet providers have been offering a vast array of cloud computing services free to researchers and clinicians, while hiking their investment in advanced technologies, since... Read More

As health care firms in China and Hong Kong race to respond to the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, they are experiencing sustained investment (mostly from China funds and wealthy Chinese investors), and are benefiting from recent regulatory changes and technological... Read More

This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. For the past several years, the companion technologies, which allow users to mirror reality, have been emerging as strong players in the medical field in Asia and beyond, given their potential to simulate surgery,... Read More

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) takes hold in Asia’s healthcare industry,  researchers are collecting detailed health profiles of citizens and using the data to test treatments, monitor adverse drug reactions in patients, detect the risk of cognitive issues in children... Read More

This article was originally published on Medtech Intelligence. Precision medicine, an emerging toolkit of ways to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying a patient’s health, disease, or condition, and to better predict which treatments will be most effective, has grown unevenly outside... Read More

A pilot program to streamline approvals of some medical devices will kick off this September, according to Hong Kong’s Medical Device Control Office (MDCO). Under the trial program, Class II, Class III and Class IV general medical devices will be eligible for... Read More

Local representatives of foreign medical products firms in Hong Kong will be required to strengthen their procedures for handling, storing and delivering medical devices under new guidelines being proposed by the government. The draft rules on local responsible persons (LRPs), who serve... Read More

Pacific Bridge Medical has just received a verbal message from Hong Kong’s MDCO that a mandatory registration system for medical devices will be put to the Hong Kong Legislative Council later this year and implemented in late 2019 or early 2020. This... Read More

This article was originally featured on Medtech Intelligence.  As Asia’s prostate cancer burden grows, so do opportunities for Western medical device companies with products to diagnose and treat the disease. Leading Western medical device firms are moving into markets across the Asian... Read More