For the next week I will be away on holiday, but in my absence wanted to share some recent work that should be of interest to readers of AsiaHealthcareBlog.  We have some exciting plans in store for the platform which we are eager to share with our reading community.  Look for content expansion and new [...]

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at length with Tsung-Mei Cheng, one of the world’s leading academics covering the evolution of health care systems around the world, with special focus on Taiwan and China.  Tsung-Mei is the co-founder of the annual Princeton Conference on Health Policy, and she is Health Policy Research Analyst [...]

As 2012 draws to a close, the two most impactful reforms China has set in motion within the healthcare space are the ongoing expansion of the country’s insurance plan and attempts to reform its hospitals.  The latter is one of the more complex and multi-faceted aspects of China’s overarching objectives as part of its 2009 [...]

Yesterday, Health Affairs published a new research paper discussing how China’s central government should guide the development of the country’s senior care infrastructure.  The result of analysis by four Chinese researchers, Zhanlian Feng a Research Analyst at the Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care Program at RTI International, Chang Liu a doctoral candidate in the Department [...]

Asia Healthcare Blog recently agreed on a partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). You may have noticed that several of our recent articles have focused on lectures given at various CCS events. We consider ourselves fortunate to have developed this partnership, and we like to think that it partly reflects [...]

One of the presentations from the recent Retirement Living Communities World Conference in Hong Kong that caught my attention was provided by Greg Neeb, the Chief Investment Officer for Sunrise Senior Living.  Greg’s presentation was titled the “Globalization of Senior Living” and offered Sunrise’s experience in Germany as a prism through which the senior living [...]

This past Tuesday, I attended another excellent Noon Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). I am a very biased observer, of course, since my graduate program is administered and run by CCS, so feel free to sprinkle a few grains of sea salt on the page when reading. Affiliations [...]

Over the last year, the opportunity to make investments in China’s hospitals has significantly changed for the better.  The late 2011 announcement that the FDI catalog would be changed so 100% foreign ownership of hospitals was possible and that investments into the hospital space had been moved from the “restricted” to “encouraged” category green lit [...]