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 [...]

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 [...]

If you have not already, head over to the New York Times and their “Room for Debate” section.  It has been covering the topic of China’s healthcare system with a series of columns attempting to answer the question “Is China Facing a Health Care Crisis?” The answer, in case you’re not sure, is an unequivocal [...]

Today’s Asia Times has my column on the challenges and opportunities pharma is facing in China.  One of the earliest industries to see the need to sell into the domestic Chinese market (versus seeing China as a source of low-cost production), pharma is also one of the most dynamic sectors in China. Some of the [...]

“Medicine for the Masses — China’s Healthcare Reform: Progress and Future Steps” A new report was recently published last month by JP Morgan on China’s Healthcare Reform. The report is a review of the state of healthcare in China as it approached the end of a three year reform initiative, where many impressive changes to [...]

Monday’s China Daily had a front-page article of interest to AsiaHealthCareBlog readers:  “Healthy Outlook for Medical Tourists”.  From their Beijing bureau, the article begins by stating “Healthcare services overseas are attracting increasing numbers of Chinese customers who are willing to pay for quality and privacy.”  This trend seems to roughly shadow the trend of wealthy [...]

The nutrition and health of a nation’s people sets the foundation for social and economic development. As in many countries with developing economies, China’s government is starting to place a special importance to the nutritional status of its children. This is being done through policy, research, and updated pediatric growth and feeding guidelines. Below is [...]

Part of what we hope to do here at the AsiaHealthcareBlog is go a bit deeper beyond a pure presentation of the opportunities in China for the biotech / pharma / medical device space.  While talking about the general opportunities available for companies in China, we want to explore in more detail the structural, cultural [...]