Posted By Damjan DeNoble This announcement showed up in my Google Alerts this morning HANOI, April 11 — Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party said state-owned hospitals will not be privatised, effectively ending a debate of the past few years over a plan to diversify ownership of treatment facilities in the health sector. But Vietnam encourages the [...]

Posted by Damjan DeNoble [Note: A response to this article by Dr. Jonathan Seah, former President of ParkwayHealth in China, can be found here.] A few months ago we posted an interview by Shanghai television station ICS with then President (CEO) of ParkwayHealth China & North Asia Division, Dr. Jonathan Seah.   However, shortly after [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble Cool post by Madhu Rao , 2008 professor of the year at Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, describing an Executive Diabetic Health Check at India’s Wockhardt Hospital.  Mr. Rao’s parents ‘gift’ him with this health check as a birthday surprise.  At first confused by his parents’ choice, [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble One topic of continuing interest to me is the ways in which new social media like Facebook, Twitter, and any other number of online services, are shaping how health care providers do business, and how they are changing the type of business hospitals are to become. Much like new Health 2.0 [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble Cool post over at a really well thought out blog, Health Care Organizational Ethics, by Jim Sabin, who according to the bio on his blog is a health care industry veteran.  The post is about  the potentially damaging consequences of doctors attempting to limit patients freedom to talk about their health [...]