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Healthcare Information System : Adaption, Implementation and Penetration in Southeast Asia

March 2013

Southeast Asia holds a promising potential for the health information system. Singapore's HIS market advancement is comparable to Western countries, while Thailand and Malaysia are still struggling to grow theirs. Other countries' HIS market in Southeast Asia region such as Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam's is still nascent and lagging due to inadequate infrastructure support. This white paper addresses the potential and challenges of HIS in the region, to explain how eventually, HIS benefits outweigh its challenges and difficult implementation.

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The Most Innovative Cities in Asia Pacific

March 2013

This ranking is based on Solidiance's comprehensive research completed in early 2013. It identifies cities that have created an effective innovation ecosystem needed by society and industry players to grow their business. This ranking is complemented with a short documentary movie featuring various innovative ecosystems and interviews with C-level executives and other key city stakeholders in the region. For complete information about this ranking, visit www.asiainnovativecities.com.

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Myanmar Market Opportunities Analysis for an Upcoming Market Entry Rush

October 2012

Despite being a "cast-away" market in Asean, Myanmar is still an attractive market with many promising sectors for foreign investment. However, before investors start to conceptualize any Myanmar market entry strategy, there are issues at hand that need to be overcome first: the lack of responsive regulatory framework and low mobile and Internet penetration are just to name a few. This paper provides an overview of opportunities in key sectors such as Myanmar telecommunication, Myanmar banking, Myanmar infrastructure, Myanmar oil / gas, and Myanmar automotive market.

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Is Singapore a Healthcare Innovation Hub in Southeast Asia?

October 2012

Singapore is regarded as a small country with luring attraction for FDI in ASEAN. With the flowing investment coming in, as remarked in the Japan Chamber of Commerce & Industry Singapore magazine article by Solidiance, the country's feasibility to undertake R&D activities and be a test-market for healthcare sector makes it potential to be harnessed by global companies as a place to invest. This article also expands on the key reasons why Singapore is an important investment destination, specifically for R&D purposes in the healthcare sector.

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Market Strategy for mHealth Implementation in Asia

May 2012

mHealth (Mobile Telecom healthcare) implementation is changing the operating paradigm for relevant stakeholders: patients of hospitals, care givers, and payers; therefore, partnership between all is necessarily required. Several essential factors are required to build an implementable Mobile Telecom healthcare Asia initiative. Solidiance offers insight into Asian stakeholders’ interest towards mHealth, and uncovers the mHealth implementation issue in Asia with key factors such as access and associated costs, screening and diagnosis integrity, organizational issues, and screening method/technology.

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Healthcare in Asean Emerging Markets: Trends, Challenges, Opportunities for Japanese Firms

April 2012

While FDI and Japan's contributions to the ASEAN healthcare industry are increasing, Japanese medical devices companies are facing several issues in Southeast Asia. Factors such as medical technology readiness, reimbursements, health and primary education, medical innovation, channels sophistication and hospital infrastructure need to be taken into account in order to explore the potential markets. In this paper, Solidiance picks up on the most attractive medical equipment markets to explore in ASEAN, the global competitiveness index average for ASEAN in healthcare industry, and whether Indonesia is potentially the next big investment destination in healthcare for Japanese healthcare companies, and others.

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Emergence of Healthcare Sector in Vietnam Attracts Set of Opportunities and Challenges

November 2009

The Vietnamese government has pumped USD 1 billion into its emerging healthcare sector. But despite its attractive growth potential, Vietnam’s emerging economy presents its own set of unique challenges to would-be investors and foreign companies. Damien Duhamel, Solidiance’s Managing Partner Asia, shares his Vietnam Medical Device insights.

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Revamp of Healthcare Infrastructure Leads to Boost in Medical Device Industry in Vietnam

June 2009

While Vietnam's medical device market is relatively small compared to its ASEAN counterparts, Vietnam stands out as the only country predicting double-digit growth for its medtech sector. In light of the announcement of the long-awaited plan to revamp Vietnam's healthcare infrastructure, steps are being taken to upgrade other incentives such as a wide range of medical equipment and a broad range of medical service, including sophisticated radiology equipments, operation theaters and emergency units. This paper presents an expansive outlook into the medical device industry in Vietnam, its growth implications, the effects of the Vietnam healthcare budget approval, the Vietnam medical device industry challenges, and the market sizing of the imaging and monitoring devices.

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